portable "step boxes"

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Only 5 E-3 locomotives were built from what I see in the archives.  Is 
there a reason and was performance an issue with them?  How long were 
they in service?  Sorry I forgot to sign 1st one

Walter Davis

On 10/18/2022 1:45 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Here is a promotional image, but I'm almost certain they were used at 
> most stations in passenger service.
>
> https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=108319
>
> Jim Brewer
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 1:38 PM NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List 
> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
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>     I worked on the extra board out of Williamson and caught the
>     passenger run to Roke in 1967. We had a step box on that run.
>     As to color it was the same red as the passenger coaches (tuskin
>     red?) and the top was black. There was some gold lettering on it
>     but I don’t remember what it was.
>
>     Larry Reed
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>     On Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 10:32 AM, NW Mailing List
>     <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
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>         They were not used just at Crewe. I can remember seeing step
>         boxes used at stations with platforms. That first step is
>         pretty high for some people. The portable step boxes were
>         pretty much standard in the 1940's and '50's. And, I think I
>         remember, not just on the N&W.
>
>         Jim Nichols
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>         On Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 01:36:28 AM CDT, NW Mailing
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>         Yes - they were used at Crewe for all passenger trains that I
>         saw in the
>         50's and 60's:  Nos 7-8, 25-26, 3-4, 15-16.  They are all the
>         ones that I
>         was familiar with. I rode on 7-8 as a child and 3-4 later.
>
>         William M (Bill) Mason
>         wmmason at verizon.net <mailto:wmmason at verizon.net>
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