--- In [email protected], Don Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of mine sent along a list of 10 questions, I am not sure of > the answer and thought that maybe someone on the list could help. As I > read over this list, I can see that many of the answers are very > important for those who model the late 50's. > Don > > Here goes..... > > >5) When did footboards on locomotives (diesels) become outlawed? I guess 1960 but don't know. _______________________________________________ -- 1970- I was There when it happened. Darn near killed myself on the first locomotive I encountered so altered in the middle of the night because no one told us it was happening. ________________________________________________ > >6) When did roofwalks become outlawed? ________________________________________________ -- Trainmen were forbidden to use them in 1964; the first cars to be built without them on Santa Fe was the summer of 1966. ___________________________________________________ > >7) When did Archbar trucks and Andrews trucks become outlawed in interchange? That kept changing. They kept pushing it back for the archbars, I think either 41 or 45. Andrews, I haven't a clue. ______________________________________________________ --Arch-bar trucks were outlawed in the late '30's, 1937 sticks out in my mind. Andrews trucks were still making the circuit in the 1960's. I'm not sure when they went out, probably around 1968 to 1970. __________________________________________________ > >10) Whe did ACI labels start and than abandoned? That you would have to ask Don. Out of my time period, but I guess they started around the mid '60s and ended in the '70s. _____________________________________________________ --They began in 1970, were a failure, but still in use in 1975. Clerks at major terminals still had to make a visual list of trains as they yarded. The solution was to cut the clerks off and hold the conductors responsible for accurate lists Bob Nicholson ________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > >
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