Trains Mag once carried a shot of an ATSF FT-A that had footboards mounted on the pilot--that sure didn't last long. DJE
----- Original Message ----- From: ken garber To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 5:31 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Footboards 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 ___________________________________________
