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Nostalgia & History > SCL 1776 U-36B in Bicentenial paint for the 4th.Date: 07/04/22 06:39 SCL 1776 U-36B in Bicentenial paint for the 4th. Author: acltrainman SCL 1776 Tampa, FL, 01/14/1973.
This seemed to have started the painting of over 200 locos for the Bi-Centenial. Stanley Jackowski Valrico, FL  Date: 07/04/22 07:38 Re: SCL 1776 U-36B in Bicentenial paint for the 4th. Author: ghemr Note the two bells! I'm guessing the gold one in the front is non-operational....
Date: 07/04/22 08:41 Re: SCL 1776 U-36B in Bicentenial paint for the 4th. Author: PasadenaSub Great photo, probably my favorite of all the Bicentennial schemes.
Rich Date: 07/04/22 09:33 Re: SCL 1776 U-36B in Bicentenial paint for the 4th. Author: Trainhand Nope, it worked. It was removed by an engineer with a pair of channel lock pliers. It wasn't me. But I have a good idea who did it.
Sam Date: 07/04/22 09:43 Re: SCL 1776 U-36B in Bicentenial paint for the 4th. Author: Trainhand Also, next to the 1776 is the 1808. The 1808 was in the order with the 1776. I think the original 1776 was renumbered to 1804. I can recall the 1776 had a later control stand than the 1775&1777.
Date: 07/04/22 10:05 Re: SCL 1776 U-36B in Bicentenial paint for the 4th. Author: texchief1 Nice shot!
RC Lundgren Elgin, TX Date: 07/04/22 10:17 Re: SCL 1776 U-36B in Bicentenial paint for the 4th. Author: acl67-2 1776 was built in sequence as the 1813, the newest at the time.
Number changed at build time. Max Date: 07/04/22 10:21 Re: SCL 1776 U-36B in Bicentenial paint for the 4th. Author: swaool Excellent, Stan! You know, I saw this unit many times (even worked on it once) and never got a good shot of it. Thanks for posting this.
mike woodruff spokane Date: 07/04/22 12:15 Re: SCL 1776 U-36B in Bicentenial paint for the 4th. Author: Notch7 In my early years (and 1776's early years), I got to run it and service it as the outside hostler at Hamlet NC. At that point SCL tried to keep it nice. Only the outside hostler was allowed to run it in terminal and around the shop, and then your shoes had to be mostly clean and free of traction motor packing. Early on, the 1776 had a carpeted cab. It was blue with white stars back then. The gold bell was highly polished then. Sunlight would glint off it and hit your eyes at times. I heard some engineers complained about that. Of course I ran it through the washer each time I serviced it. For a time, around early 1973, the 1776 got the three ex-demo ALCO Century 430's for trailing units. I remember what a fine sight those engines were coming into Raleigh on a super heavy Dupont unit tank train. The 1776's engineer that day was "Dynamite" Dunn, a kinda small engineer I fired alot for on the Silver Star and the Vacationer. I still have my 1972 Raleigh Division Safety Award. The award was a nice 1776 tiebar.
Date: 07/04/22 17:28 Re: SCL 1776 U-36B in Bicentenial paint for the 4th. Author: PHall I wonder how many "Bicentennial" unit paint schemes took their styling cues from the SCL scheme.
BN, ATSF and WP are three that quickly come to mind. |