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Author: | QJdriver [ Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:18 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: small reverser handle ID |
Those look like old style EMD reversors, maybe they fit an SW-1, an F unit, E unit, or possibly an SD-7. |
Author: | Gham55* [ Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:00 pm ] | ||
Post subject: | Re: small reverser handle ID | ||
QJdriver wrote: Those look like old style EMD reversors, maybe they fit an SW-1, an F unit, E unit, or possibly an SD-7. We have never seen an EMD reverser "bit" quite like the one on that short handle. For comparison, the following photo shows the three EMD reverser types we have run across that fit the EMDs on hand (they are shown in order of era, with the earliest one at the top, a "drum controller" type in the center and the latter "AAR" type at the bottom). If that short handle in the original post is also an EMD reverser handle, then might EMD have actually had four different "bit" styles rather than three? If this stubby little thing isn't an EMD handle, hopefully someone will recognize what it actually is, as our knowledge of minority-builder diesel (or electric) reverser handles is alarmingly low.
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Author: | QJdriver [ Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:31 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: small reverser handle ID |
Good question. With a bit of luck, Preston Cook will answer it for us... |
Author: | PaulWWoodring [ Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:21 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: small reverser handle ID |
The bottom reverser in the above photo looks like the standard shape for most Class I reversers I used over 15 years ago, but in brass. I have a brass one I bought from a co-worker/railfan and tried it in a control stand to make sure it would work. It did. I was planning on having it polished as a display piece, but a friend said it would be better to leave it unpolished. |
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