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AC 'Woody' Woodward

November 05, 2001 03:32PM

CJ you are correct. The 5511 that pulled #68 out of Alamosa on 11/4/56 was on FT A unit. The FTs, F3s, F7s were purchased as 4 unit sets, 2 A units and 2 B units. The sets were numbered, for example, 5511 5512 5513 and the 5514. the two A units were numbered 5511 and 5514, the two units in the middle, the B units, were the 5512 and 5513. All RG A units end in 1 or 4 and the B units all end in 2 or 3. Similarly, GP 9s were numbered as 4 unit sets ie 590-1 which looks like 5901 and 5902 5903 ETC The next set in the sequence would be 5911 5912 5913 5914 and so on.
I know this is a narrow gauge/steam list but this stuff connected with the narrow gauge at Alamosa, Salida and Montrose. All this equipment, SG and NG, was in the same yard at the same time. Alamosa was a very interesting place in terms of railroad for several decades.
Woody

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Alamosa Outbound Nov 4, 1956	AC 'Woody' Woodward	November 04, 2001 02:52AM
Re: Alamosa Outbound Nov 4, 1956	Greg Scholl	November 04, 2001 08:34AM
Was 5511 a diesel? NM	Craig Miller	November 04, 2001 10:06AM
Re: Was 5511 a diesel -it was in another era!	William	November 04, 2001 03:15PM
Re: Was 5511 a diesel -it was in another era!	Chile John	November 04, 2001 04:44PM
Re: Was 5511 a diesel -it was in another era!	AC 'Woody' Woodward	November 05, 2001 03:32PM
Re: Was 5511 a diesel -it was in another era!	Greg Scholl	November 05, 2001 03:48PM
Re: Was 5511 a diesel -it was in another era!	AC 'Woody' Woodward	November 05, 2001 05:07PM
End of steam on La Veta	Fred T	November 05, 2001 06:20PM
Re: Was 5511 a diesel -it was in another era!	Mark Stoeckel	November 05, 2001 07:53AM

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