One source puts the end of footboards at 1979. But a comment elsewhere mentioned a few roads kept them around for a few more years.
All sorts of historical dates at www.hosam.com ( http://www.hosam.com/grd/dates.html) Ken On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Greg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hopefully they were going away from you when you tried to get on there > Bob. Either way it was a surprise when they weren't there. The WP still > had a couple of units with them when I hired out in 79 and they sure were > useful when using those low cut levers on the engine. > > Greg > > --- In [email protected], "shabbona_rr" <user141771@...> wrote: > > > > We always called them "footboards". Imagine the thrill in the middle of > the night when you stepped for one and it wasn't there. That's how we on > the front lines discovered the RR's were removing them. > > > > Bob Nicholson ___________________________________________ >
