Nostalgia & History > 3 FM switchers: NYC Lightning Stripe, Frisco, TRRA

1. NYC H20-44 #7108    7/64  Alan Miller Collection
2. SLSF H10-44 #270  Tulsa, OK   6/21/71 Kevin Cavanaugh
3. TRRA H10-44 #700  St. Louis area  12/63 Alan Miller Collection

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Three rare images. My favorite is the NYC H20-44.
Bob

Three neat photos. Wasn't the H20 more of a road switcher? At 2000 HP it's pretty beefy for the era. Looks like it has MU capability; not sure if that was original. Solid bearing trucks as well.
Thanks for posting.

King_Coal Wrote:
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> Three neat photos. Wasn't the H20 more of a road
> switcher? At 2000 HP it's pretty beefy for the
> era. Looks like it has MU capability; not sure if
> that was original. Solid bearing trucks as well.
> Thanks for posting.

Total of 96, H20-44s were built with only 3 remaining today in museums!
One at PSRM Campo in San Diego County, Demonstrator later UP 1366.
One at IRM in Illinois, ex UP and one in Texas, ex AC&Y, painted in UP colors.

I believe the MU equipment was added by the railroad, not a factory option.

Mike

2720 Wrote:

> Total of 96, H20-44s were built with only 3
> remaining today in museums!

...and all three were last used at Southwestern Portland Cement in Victorville, CA.

> One at PSRM Campo in San Diego County,
> Demonstrator later UP 1366.

The one in Campo is actually ex-UP 1369: https://www.psrm.org/trains/diesel/union-pacific-1369/

The former demonstrator/UP 1366 is the one at IRM: http://www5.irm.org/cgi-bin/rsearch.cgi?diesel=Union+Pacific+Railroad=1366