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| Title: |
Sperry Rail Service #132, c. 1970 |
| Description: |
SRS. Here is a duplicate 35mm color slide of Sperry Rail Service Detector Car #132, a "Doodlebug" built by the St. Louis Car Company during April of 1925 and acquired by SRS in 1943. Partially visible at the right is Reading Railroad engine #5205, a C424 built by the American Locomotive Company in November of 1963 and rated at 2,400 horsepower. The photographer's name, the exact date, and the location are not recorded. |
| Photo Date: |
1/23/1970 Upload Date: 12/3/2021 9:22:03 PM |
| Location: |
Bethlehem, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 132(Doodlebug) RDG 5205(C424) |
| Views: |
250 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 132 |
| Description: |
Sperry Rail Service SRS 132 Chattanooga, TN |
| Photo Date: |
10/10/1970 Upload Date: 5/4/2013 5:11:51 PM |
| Location: |
Chattanooga, TN |
| Author: |
Lee Yoder |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 132(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
461 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 132 |
| Description: |
Sperry Rail Service SRS 132 Chattanooga, TN |
| Photo Date: |
10/10/1970 Upload Date: 5/4/2013 5:12:30 PM |
| Location: |
Chattanooga, TN |
| Author: |
Lee Yoder |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 132(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
430 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 132 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
9/17/1977 Upload Date: 8/25/2008 1:46:13 PM |
| Location: |
Mingo Junction, OH |
| Author: |
C.W. Lahickey |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 132(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
590 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sperry Rail Service 132 |
| Description: |
EB on MEC after being repaired at Conway Scenic RR |
| Photo Date: |
9/28/1978 Upload Date: 11/21/2011 10:42:16 AM |
| Location: |
North Conway, NH |
| Author: |
Gil Ford |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 132(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
491 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 132 |
| Description: |
Here comes the SRS Doodlebug testing on the Secondary. Anyone for Schwan's Ice Cream on this cold January day? |
| Photo Date: |
1/8/1979 Upload Date: 1/24/2018 8:44:03 AM |
| Location: |
Schuyler, PA |
| Author: |
Jim Appleman |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 132(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
370 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Sperry Rail Service #132, 1979 |
| Description: |
SRS. Here is an image of a photo by Edward Kaspriske that was taken in 1979. Shown here is Sperry Rail Service Detector Car #132, a "Doodlebug" built by the St. Louis Car Company during April of 1925 and acquired by SRS in 1943. The exact location is not recorded. Edward Kaspriske Collection. |
| Photo Date: |
1/23/1979 Upload Date: 5/31/2023 11:31:12 PM |
| Location: |
Sunbury, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Winter |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 132(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
107 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sperry Rail Service #132 working westbound on the Western Railway of Alabama towards Montgomery (AL). The hotbox detector numeric display is showing "000" indicating no defects on extra SRS #132 West |
| Description: |
Sperry Rail Service Test Car #132 was built in 1925 (by St. Louis Car Company) as Seaboard Air Line "Doodlebug" #2003. Sperry acquired the car from Seaboard Air Line in January 1942. #132 is 59' 7" in length, 13' high and 10' 4" wide with a weight of 142,000 pounds |
| Photo Date: |
2/3/1980 Upload Date: 7/28/2009 12:51:24 PM |
| Location: |
Auburn, AL |
| Author: |
Bernie Feltman |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 132(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
1321 Comments: 10 |
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| Title: |
SRS 132 (Doodlebug) |
| Description: |
SRS 132 (Doodlebug) blt 1925 as SAL 2003, Huntsville, Ala., December 1983 (exact date unknown) |
| Photo Date: |
12/1/1983 Upload Date: 7/5/2013 9:49:16 PM |
| Location: |
Huntsville, AL |
| Author: |
Robert Proctor |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 132(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
400 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sperry Rail Service #132, #1 of 2, 1986 |
| Description: |
SRS. Here is an image of the first of two successive photos by Edward Kaspriske that were taken in 1986. Shown here is Sperry Rail Service Detector Car #132, a "Doodlebug" built by the St. Louis Car Company during April of 1925 and acquired by SRS in 1943. The exact location is not recorded. Edward Kaspriske Collection. |
| Photo Date: |
1/23/1986 Upload Date: 6/18/2023 10:56:24 AM |
| Location: |
Sunbury, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Winter,Signal |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 132(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
126 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sperry Rail Service #132, #2 of 2, 1986 |
| Description: |
SRS. Here is an image of the second of two successive photos by Edward Kaspriske that were taken in 1986. Shown here is Sperry Rail Service Detector Car #132, a "Doodlebug" built by the St. Louis Car Company during April of 1925 and acquired by SRS in 1943. The exact location is not recorded. Edward Kaspriske Collection. |
| Photo Date: |
1/23/1986 Upload Date: 6/18/2023 10:57:00 AM |
| Location: |
Sunbury, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Winter |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 132(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
119 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sperry Rail Car Jimmy Langdon |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
10/29/1994 Upload Date: 7/22/2007 7:49:58 AM |
| Location: |
Williams Junction, AZ |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 132(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
719 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 132 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
12/21/2000 Upload Date: 11/8/2014 10:53:32 AM |
| Location: |
Garrett, IN |
| Author: |
Alan Gaines |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 132(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
289 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Eagle Pass TX |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
6/5/2003 Upload Date: 4/4/2015 1:50:24 PM |
| Location: |
Eagle Pass, TX |
| Author: |
Randy Curlin |
| Categories: |
Yard,Station,Track |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 132(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
352 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Eagle Pass TX |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
6/5/2003 Upload Date: 4/4/2015 1:50:44 PM |
| Location: |
Eagle Pass, TX |
| Author: |
Randy Curlin |
| Categories: |
Yard,Track |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 132(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
312 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 134 |
| Description: |
Parked by the ex-EL passenger station (Date approximate) |
| Photo Date: |
2/13/1971 Upload Date: 10/18/2014 9:56:15 PM |
| Location: |
Kent, OH |
| Author: |
Robert Farkas |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
587 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Sperry Rail car |
| Description: |
Winona |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1971 Upload Date: 12/27/2006 11:23:55 PM |
| Location: |
Winona, MN |
| Author: |
Greg Smith |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
3338 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SRS 134 |
| Description: |
No eastbounds for awhile, as Sperry car 134 is busy checking the #1 track. SRS 134 is ex-SAL 2022, built by St. Louis Car-EMC (1459-261) in 1928 and acqured by Sperry in 1945. Date of photo approximate. |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1972 Upload Date: 1/28/2010 3:52:30 PM |
| Location: |
Ashland, OH |
| Author: |
Mike Woodruff |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
658 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Sperry Rail Service 134 |
| Description: |
stored for the winter in the Riby enginehouse |
| Photo Date: |
2/8/1982 Upload Date: 4/21/2012 5:14:25 PM |
| Location: |
South Portland, ME |
| Author: |
Gil Ford |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
537 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sperry 134 |
| Description: |
Rail test car |
| Photo Date: |
10/31/1982 Upload Date: 3/29/2012 1:47:44 PM |
| Location: |
Dover, NH |
| Author: |
Gil Ford |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
518 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 134 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
4/1/1983 Upload Date: 2/8/2013 9:38:25 AM |
| Location: |
South Acton, MA |
| Author: |
Dick Leonhardt |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
479 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MBTA 1401 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
4/1/1983 Upload Date: 4/15/2012 9:48:34 AM |
| Location: |
South Acton, MA |
| Author: |
Dick Leonhardt |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
1031 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 134 |
| Description: |
Sperry Car laying over for the night |
| Photo Date: |
4/16/1985 Upload Date: 6/5/2011 7:35:11 PM |
| Location: |
East Deerfield, MA |
| Author: |
Gil Ford |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
397 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sperry car visits Long Island |
| Description: |
Sperry car 134 had the task of inspecting the LIRR. Getting it worked in between schdduled trains was a challenge!! |
| Photo Date: |
2/4/1986 Upload Date: 11/18/2011 2:42:18 AM |
| Location: |
New Hyde Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
446 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SRS 134 |
| Description: |
SRS testing east by Smiths Mill. The mill had been shut down for years and will eventually be torn down. |
| Photo Date: |
5/28/1986 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 1:55:20 PM |
| Location: |
Ottawa, PA |
| Author: |
Jim Appleman |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
279 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Checking the Main Line |
| Description: |
Sperry car 134 rolls through New Hyde Park on track 1 as it checks for rail defects. Working the electrified zone could be a challenge for the Sperry car, since it needed an absolute clear to run, a hard thing to come by with the traffic density on this end of the railroad. |
| Photo Date: |
11/19/1987 Upload Date: 6/11/2015 3:39:16 AM |
| Location: |
New Hyde Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
346 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Working track 4. |
| Description: |
Todays effort is to work track 4, the southernmost track on the Main Line west of Queens, then onto the Hempstead Branch. The Sperry car is about to pass Queens Village station |
| Photo Date: |
11/19/1987 Upload Date: 6/11/2015 3:49:00 AM |
| Location: |
Queens Village, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
347 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Waiting in good company |
| Description: |
Sperry car 134 waits on a siding at Riverhead. In the background is the tender for LIRR 39, behind restored at the Railroad Museum of Long Island. |
| Photo Date: |
11/21/1987 Upload Date: 6/11/2015 3:53:52 AM |
| Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
383 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Old doodlebug |
| Description: |
A nose on shot of Sperry car 134 shows it for the doodlebug it once was. Partly dismantled G 5 4-6-0 39 is at left. |
| Photo Date: |
11/21/1987 Upload Date: 6/11/2015 4:02:46 AM |
| Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) LI 39(4-6-2) |
| Views: |
506 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 134 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
9/5/1997 Upload Date: 11/8/2014 10:54:49 AM |
| Location: |
Dunlap, IN |
| Author: |
Alan Gaines |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
346 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 134 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
6/23/1998 Upload Date: 11/8/2014 10:56:24 AM |
| Location: |
Corunna, IN |
| Author: |
Alan Gaines |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
311 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 134 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
1/30/1999 Upload Date: 2/28/2015 2:05:56 PM |
| Location: |
Willoughby, OH |
| Author: |
Bruce Gage |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
425 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Sperry car on the NS |
| Description: |
I made a pick up in Bellevue, and had a view of the tracks. This car happened along while I was getting loaded. |
| Photo Date: |
5/30/2000 Upload Date: 2/23/2014 4:31:19 AM |
| Location: |
Bellevue, OH |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
391 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 134 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
1/14/2001 Upload Date: 2/8/2013 9:38:25 AM |
| Location: |
Ayer, MA |
| Author: |
Dick Leonhardt |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
398 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 134 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
1/14/2001 Upload Date: 2/8/2013 9:38:25 AM |
| Location: |
Ayer, MA |
| Author: |
Dick Leonhardt |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
348 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sperry car parked |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
11/7/2004 Upload Date: 11/7/2004 10:14:49 PM |
| Location: |
Hale, SC |
| Author: |
Tim Huemmer |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
671 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sperry Rail Car 134 |
| Description: |
Sperry Rail Car in for some work. |
| Photo Date: |
7/22/2005 Upload Date: 7/29/2005 7:09:06 AM |
| Location: |
Chattanooga, TN |
| Author: |
nsrayman - nslocos.com |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 134(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
840 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 135 |
| Description: |
Sperry Rail Service 135 at Waynesville, North Carolina on February 28, 1980, Kodachrome by Gib Allbach, Chuck Zeiler collection. Number 135 was built by Saint Louis Car Company September 21, 1927 ( Job # 1459 ) as Seaboard Air Line 2023, powered by a Winton Model 120 275 hp 6-cylinder gasoline engine ( EMC c/n 262 ), sold to SRS in April 1945, renumbered to 135, retired in 2003, to Danbury Railway Museum in 2004. |
| Photo Date: |
2/28/1980 Upload Date: 3/16/2013 3:55:52 PM |
| Location: |
Waynesville, NC |
| Author: |
Gib Allbach |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 135(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
1443 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SRS 135 |
| Description: |
Sperry Rail Service car 135 was parked behind the Southern Railway’s office building on Spring Street in Atlanta. This was where the railroad kept its business cars, such as executive sleeper 18 GEORGIA and track inspection car 19 BUENA VISTA. SRS 135 had been built by the Electro-Motive Corp. and the St. Louis Car Co. in September 1927 as Seaboard Air Line motorcar 2023 and was acquired by Sperry in July 1945. |
| Photo Date: |
4/26/1981 Upload Date: 7/16/2020 1:17:27 PM |
| Location: |
Atlanta, GA |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER photo |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 135(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
528 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sperry Rail car |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
4/23/1984 Upload Date: 10/29/2011 10:56:19 AM |
| Location: |
Morristown, TN |
| Author: |
Johnny Winkler |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 135(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
1030 Comments: 12 |
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| Title: |
SRS 135 |
| Description: |
EB at CP 124 |
| Photo Date: |
4/18/1994 Upload Date: 7/1/2017 8:17:03 AM |
| Location: |
Ashtabula, OH |
| Author: |
Bruce Gage |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 135(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
345 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 135 |
| Description: |
Sperry Rail Service test car 135 is at Highland Falls, NY 6/2000 |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/2000 Upload Date: 12/17/2004 7:04:32 PM |
| Location: |
Highland Falls, NY |
| Author: |
John Durant |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 135(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
663 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 135 |
| Description: |
Sperry Rail Service SRS 135 heads north at Ridgefield Park, NJ 7/2000. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/2000 Upload Date: 2/17/2021 9:50:21 PM |
| Location: |
Ridgefield Park, NJ |
| Author: |
Elena M Durant |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 135(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
201 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 135 |
| Description: |
Sperry Rail Service SRS 135 heads north at Ridgefield Park, NJ 7/2000. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/2000 Upload Date: 2/17/2021 9:51:20 PM |
| Location: |
Ridgefield Park, NJ |
| Author: |
Elena M Durant |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 135(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
196 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 135 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
12/29/2004 Upload Date: 3/8/2011 8:56:36 AM |
| Location: |
Danbury Yard and Mus, CT |
| Author: |
Christopher Esposito |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 135(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
560 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 135 |
| Description: |
This old Sperry car is open for tours. |
| Photo Date: |
11/18/2007 Upload Date: 5/15/2008 9:30:41 PM |
| Location: |
Danbury, CT |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SRS 135(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
543 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 135 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
11/7/2009 Upload Date: 12/15/2012 8:50:15 PM |
| Location: |
Danbury, CT |
| Author: |
Richard Gorddard |
| Categories: |
RollingStock |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 135(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
356 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Cab View |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
11/7/2009 Upload Date: 12/15/2012 8:56:02 PM |
| Location: |
Danbury, CT |
| Author: |
Richard Gorddard |
| Categories: |
RollingStock |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 135(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
367 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sperry Rail Service No.135 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
11/7/2009 Upload Date: 12/15/2012 9:04:52 PM |
| Location: |
Danbury, CT |
| Author: |
Richard Gorddard |
| Categories: |
RollingStock |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 135(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
360 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SRS 135 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
9/7/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 2:15:55 PM |
| Location: |
Danbury, CT |
| Author: |
Gregory Grice |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,InCab,Yard,Station,Passenger,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SRS 135(Doodlebug) |
| Views: |
433 Comments: 0 |
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