Nostalgia & History > 6 More From Switcher Heaven

Every time I post switcher pictures someone comments, "There are never too many switcher pictures".  Well here's 6 more of very rare yard goats.

1. FTRL 257, photographer unknown. No other information.  I can't even find the Reporting Mark.   Help!

2. Lone Star Steel Company 12 in Lone Star, TX on November 26, 1976, Vincent J. Porreca photo.

3. NYCTA OL894 in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY on October 16, 1984, unknown photographer.



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4. Rosco Snyder & Pacific 500 on November 19, 1974, Vincent J. Porreca photo.

5. South Buffalo Ry 42 on July 18, 1975 , Vincent J. Porreca photo.

6. Union Pacific Cow and Calf TR5AB 1870 on August 2, 1975.  The calf has extra air tanks?  Vincent J. Porreca photo. Utah Rails says that They were built in Sep 1951 and retied in June 1976. "UP 1870 was retired due to electrical failure; sold (along with UP 1872B) to Industrial Maintenance Services, Hammond, Indiana in September 1976; frame and other components used to build EJ&E 308; later sold to Econo-Rail (ECRX) 308, in national lease service at Plantation Foods, Temple, Texas in October 1994."


Enjoy,
Marty Bernard



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MartyBernard Wrote:
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> 1. FTRL 257, photographer unknown. No other
> information.  I can't even find the Reporting
> Mark.   Help!
>

Marty, FTRL is the reporting mark. Stands for Foster Townsend Rail Logistics. They have a few units here and there. Along the Mississippi Rvr across from St Louis is one place, (An SD40 type Unit) and up in Ft Collins Co they did have another SW1500 unit working the Budweiser Plant a few years back. Not sure if that one is still around. Also the AT&L in Watonga/Geary Ok has a unit still in FTRL paint, the GP40 3001, I believe is the number.  AT&L is the Austin Todd and Ladd, supposedly named for the owners Grand Kids.  Ben



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Marty, the UP TR5's have large fuel tanks which moved the air tanks to the top of the body.

Here's the 257 as Manufactures Railway working the Budweiser plant in St.Louis. July 2011.

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Were these UP TR5s used as helpers on Cajon Pass?

Foster Townsend Rail Logistics (FTRL) 1515, SW1500, worked Budweiser's Fort Collins, CO, operation on 19 January 2016.



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lynnpowell Wrote:
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> Were these UP TR5s used as helpers on Cajon Pass?
Yes, at one time these were used as Cajon helpers sets.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

lynnpowell Wrote:
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> Were these UP TR5s used as helpers on Cajon Pass?

In addition to Cajon, as Bob Krieger has noted, a caption in John Signor's Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company
states: "...Of the eight sets purchased, six were initially placed at San Bernadino, and the remainder at Kelso. In time at
least one of the sets was reassigned to Caliente to assist late running passenger trains and the eastbound hotshot CN."

cewherry Wrote:
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> lynnpowell Wrote:
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> > Were these UP TR5s used as helpers on Cajon
> Pass?
>
> In addition to Cajon, as Bob Krieger has noted, a
> caption in John Signor's Los Angeles and Salt
> Lake Railroad Company
> states: "...Of the eight sets purchased, six were
> initially placed at San Bernadino, and the
> remainder at Kelso. In time at
> least one of the sets was reassigned to Caliente
> to assist late running passenger trains and the
> eastbound hotshot CN."

On AAR Type A switcher trucks that were good for about 35 mph max!