[RITSlist] Rock Island FA

[Richard Wilkinson]

I don't recall them having steam generators but I remember of pair of 
them wheeling the Ringling Brothers train though Spirit Lake in the late 
60s. I suspect those trains did and still do have their own power plants 
for hotel services.  And the FAs were, at least at one time, able to 
make passenger train speeds since I saw another pair of them west bound 
out of Iowa City with a hot pig train in 1962 or 63.

Probably the FA was pitch hitting for a ailing E unit.

Rich Wilkinson

Dan Baker wrote:
> In March of 1964, my father chased the eastbound Golden State from about 
> Dalhart, Texas, to Liberal, Kansas.  I was an 11 year child glued to the 
> car window in fascination.  My memory is that the lead locomotive was an 
> Alco FA unit.  Did any of these units have steam generators?  Were any 
> of them commonly assigned to passenger service? Which units?  Which 
> trains?  Thank you for your help?
>
>
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