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Nostalgia & History > The Truckee Local hanging out at Truckee 1962Date: 03/06/21 19:56 The Truckee Local hanging out at Truckee 1962 Author: photobob The Truckee local sitting in front of the Truckee station in 1962 with caboose 1165.
Robert Morris Dunsmuir, CA Robert Morris Photography  Date: 03/06/21 20:36 Re: The Truckee Local hanging out at Truckee 1962 Author: DynamicBrake The master of composition. Thanks for sharing photobob.
Kent in CArmel Valley Date: 03/06/21 21:13 Re: The Truckee Local hanging out at Truckee 1962 Author: BoilingMan The local was assigned an F?!
Ouch. SR Nice look at the Truckee depot! Date: 03/06/21 21:37 Re: The Truckee Local hanging out at Truckee 1962 Author: RuleG BoilingMan Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > The local was assigned an F?! > Ouch. > SR > > Nice look at the Truckee depot! Nice for modelers. I've seen many photos of single F-units on passenger trains (as well as seen a few in person), but never on freight trains. Date: 03/06/21 22:46 Re: The Truckee Local hanging out at Truckee 1962 Author: EMDSW-1 RuleG Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > BoilingMan Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > The local was assigned an F?! > > Ouch. > > SR > > > > Nice look at the Truckee depot! > > Nice for modelers. I've seen many photos of > single F-units on passenger trains (as well as > seen a few in person), but never on freight > trains. It's the EsPee...anything works! SW-1 Date: 03/07/21 08:03 Re: The Truckee Local hanging out at Truckee 1962 Author: railstiesballast What was the regular run of the Truckee Local?
Did it originate at Sparks and return there or did it operate through to Roseville, or ??? Thanks In Advance Date: 03/07/21 09:06 Re: The Truckee Local hanging out at Truckee 1962 Author: ExStarlightHog F units made terrible switch engines. Obviously they were designed for forward operation only and very minimal backing up. I'm glad the only backing up I had to do with one was while hostling at the SJRH.
Date: 03/07/21 10:50 Re: The Truckee Local hanging out at Truckee 1962 Author: WAF railstiesballast Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > What was the regular run of the Truckee > Local? > Did it originate at Sparks and return there or did > it operate through to Roseville, or ??? > Thanks In Advance Came out of Sparks cabhop with an F in the beginning. Switched the mill in Truckee and went back to Sparks. Later in the 70s, it came out of Roseville with Geeps or SD9s Date: 03/07/21 11:12 Re: The Truckee Local hanging out at Truckee 1962 Author: BoilingMan WAF
Any idea why an F? Surely it’s “limitations” were obvious. Maybe that’s all that was available in Sparks in those days? Or some other, not obvious, reason? If F’s were regular on the job then it implies someone made a deliberate decision. Thanks SR Posted from iPhone Date: 03/07/21 14:35 Re: The Truckee Local hanging out at Truckee 1962 Author: WAF Probably back in the day, mid 60s and before, that was what was laying around to use as you said. Geeps were rare as helpers back then
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/07/21 14:36 by WAF. Date: 03/07/21 15:45 Re: The Truckee Local hanging out at Truckee 1962 Author: Dreamer The Caboose still survives.
Dreamer Date: 03/07/21 21:25 Re: The Truckee Local hanging out at Truckee 1962 Author: weather Absolute Classic Bob....Doesn't get much better then that!
Date: 03/08/21 12:15 Re: The Truckee Local hanging out at Truckee 1962 Author: mattwinegar54 photobob truly is the Ansel Adams of SP railroad photography.
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