Santa Fe started doing away with them in 1971.

Bob Nicholson  __________________________________________


--- In [email protected], ken garber <garber.ken@...> wrote:
>
> 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 <gelems@...> 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  ___________________________________________
> >
>




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