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SPERRY RAIL SERVICE
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ALL-TIME FLEET ROSTER
PART 1 - THE BIG YELLOW CARS | | |
Last revised July 22, 2009
Type Road No. Builder Bldr. No. Built Prev. Owner/No. Notes
X 1 Kalamazoo 1927 New To ARA 1
HT 40 Fitzgibbon-Crisp 1934 New To SRS 126A 8/37
HT 41 Kalamazoo 1929 SRS 106A Destroyed by fire 11/37
HT 42 Kalamazoo 1929 SRS 103A Retired 12/38
HT 43 Kalamazoo 1930 SRS 112A Wrecked 12/38
HT 44 Kalamazoo 1929 SRS 104A Destroyed by fire 1/38
D-D 101 Kalamazoo 1927 ARA 1 Disposition unknown
D-D 102 Kalamazoo 1928 New Towed by MC-501.
Wrecked on MILW 9/29
D-D 103 Kalamazoo 1929 New Towed by 502.
Used as part of triple unit from 3/34
& renumbered 109B
MC 103A Kalamazoo 1929 SRS 502 To SRS 42 (1931)
D-D 104 Kalamazoo 1929 New Towed by 503.
This car and 104A used in Europe 6/32-6/35.
Retired 6/35
MC 104A Kalamazoo 1929 SRS 503 Double unit consisting of a motor car and a
detector car.
This car and 104 used in Europe 6/32-6/35.
To SRS 44 (1931)
S 105 J.G. Brill 1929 New To SRS 120
D-D 106 Kalamazoo 1929 New Towed by 504.
Retired in 1933 then used in 1935 as 110B(II)
MC 106A Kalamazoo 1929 SRS 504 To SRS 41 (1931)
S (107) J.G. Brill 1930 New See note 3.
X 108 SRS 1930 New Experimental hand test car
Disposition unknown
D-T 109 Kalamazoo 1930 New Towed by 509.
Used as part of triple unit from 3/34
& renumbered 109C
MC 109A Kalamazoo 1930 SRS 509 Used as tow car in triple unit 109A-B-C.
Retired 8/4/39
D-T 109B Kalamazoo 1929 SRS 103 Part of triple unit.
Retired 8/4/39
D-T 109C Kalamazoo 1930 SRS 109 Part of triple unit.
Retired 8/4/39
D-T 110 Kalamazoo 1930 New Towed by 510.
Used as part of triple unit from 6/34
& renumbered 110C
MC 110A Kalamazoo 1930 SRS 510 Used as tow car in triple unit 110A-B-C.
Retired 12/35
D-T 110B(I) Kalamazoo 1930 SRS 112 Part of triple unit.
To SRS 114B
D-T 110B(II) Kalamazoo 1929 SRS 106 Part of triple unit.
Retired 12/35
D-D 110C Kalamazoo 1930 SRS 110 Part of triple unit.
Retired 12/35
D-D 112 Kalamazoo 1930 New Towed by 512.
Used as part of triple unit from 7/34
& renumbered 110B(I)
MC 112A Kalamazoo 1930 SRS 512 To SRS 43 4/35
D-T 114 Kalamazoo 1930 New Towed by motor car 514.
Used as part of triple unit from 2/34
& renumbered SRS 114C
MC 114A Kalamazoo 1930 SRS 514 Used as tow car in triple unit 114A-B-C.
Wrecked on PRR 2/8/37
D-T 114B Kalamazoo 1930 SRS 110B(I) Part of triple unit.
Wrecked on PRR 2/8/37
D-T 114C Kalamazoo 1930 SRS 114 Part of triple unit.
Wrecked on PRR 2/8/37
S 115 J.G. Brill 1930 New To SRS 122 6/35
S 116 J.G. Brill 1930 New Photo of car in 'History of the J.G. Brill Co.' p. 156.
To SRS 121 6/35
S 117 St. Louis-EMC 1368C173 1927 B&O 6005 To SRS 8/34.
Destroyed by fire following collision
with auto 4/2/56
S 118 St. Louis-EMC 1368C172 1927 B&O 6004 To SRS 10/33.
Retired for scrapping
S 119 St. Louis-EMC 1368C171 1927 B&O 6003 To SRS 10/33.
Converted to diesel-electric in 1960.
Named 'Bob Owen'
S 120 J.G. Brill 1929 SRS 105 To Remington Arms 6/53
S 121 J.G. Brill 1930 SRS 116 To Remington Arms 6/53
S 122 J.G. Brill 1930 SRS 115 Scrapped 1955
S 123 St. Louis-EMC 1386A369 1928 LV 14 Acquired by SRS 5/36.
Converted to diesel-electric in 1960.
Retired June 2005
S 124 St. Louis-EMC 1452241 1925 LV 20 Acquired by SRS 6/37.
S 125 St. Louis-EMC 1376135 1925 LV 26 Acquired by SRS 6/37.
Converted to diesel-electric in 1958.
Used in Europe 1961-3, see note 1.
S 126 St. Louis-EMC 1352141 1927 C&NW 9900 Acquired by SRS 8/37.
Scrapped at a Charleston MA scrapyard 2004
HT 126A Fitzgibbon-Crisp 1934 SRS 40 Ex 40 8/37.
Wrecked 10/37
S 127 St. Louis-EMC 1368D128 1926 B&M 1151/151 Acquired by SRS 8/39.
Named 'R.R. Revell'
S 128 St. Louis-EMC 1386A363 1928 LV 15 Acquired by SRS 8/39.
Named 'D.A. Link'
S 129 St. Louis-EMC 1376A133 1925 LV 29 Acquired by SRS 8/39.
Named 'P.E. Kennedy'
S 130 St. Louis-EMC 1376136 1925 LV 28 Acquired by SRS 7/40.
Named 'Jim Stroup'
S 131 St. Louis-EMC 1376134 1925 LV 27 Acquired by SRS 10/41.
Currently out of service at St. Louis.
S 132 St. Louis-EMC 1365138 1925 SAL 2003 Acquired by SRS 1/42.
Named 'Jimmy Langdon'.
Currently out of service at St. Louis.
S 133 St. Louis-EMC 1365137 1925 SAL 2002 Acquired by SRS 4/43.
Wrecked on B&M at Winnisquam NH 12/4/62.
(Note: date of wreck has been revised from 12/2/63,
source I.C.C. report.)
Photo exists of car in Charleston MA scrapyard 8/25/63
S 134 St. Louis-EMC 1459261 1928 SAL 2022 Acquired by SRS 4/45.
Named 'W.J. Gallagher'
S 135 St. Louis-EMC 1459262 1928 SAL 2023 Acquired by SRS 7/45.
Retired c.2003.
To Danbury Railway Museum, Danbury, CT 2004.
S 136 J.G. Brill 22547 1928 NYC M-11 In service for SRS 4/19/48.
S 137 St. Louis-EMC 1360C117 1925 SOO X1450, nee M1 In service for SRS 12/1/70.
S 138 St. Louis-EMC 1928 RI 9057 In service for SRS 9/20/71.
Named 'W.R. Burton'
S 139 SRS-Brooklyn C&NW 300890 In service for SRS 5/5/72
Currently out of service at St. Louis.
S 140 SRS-Danbury 1966 New Built from an R-33 subway car shell.
To Australia in 9/76.
Retired c.1990 and stored.
Moved to the Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum,
Dorrigo, New South Wales, Australia in May 2000.
S 141 St. Louis-EMC 1475326 1928 RI 9050(2) In service for SRS 11/19/72.
To Australia in 3/73.
Car later returned to the US.
Named 'Elmer Jackson'.
Repainted in latest scheme between 2002 & 2005
and re-named 'E.B. Jackson'.
S 142 SRS-Brooklyn C&NW 300882 In service for SRS 5/5/74
Currently out of service at St. Louis.
S 143 SRS-Brooklyn 10/74 New 5-Star body.
Currently out of service at St. Louis.
S 144 SRS-Brooklyn 7/7/75 New 5-Star body
S 145 SRS-Danbury 8/75 New 5-Star body
Named 'Bob McGuire'
S 146 SRS-Brooklyn 12/75 New Hillebrand body
S 147 SRS-Brooklyn 6/76 New Hillebrand body.
Rebuilt to 200 in 1999
148 SRS-Danbury 1985 New Named 'Jack Finney'
149 SRS-Danbury 1986 New
200 SRS-Danbury 1999 SRS 147 To Sweden in 5/99
Image courtesy of the Bahnbilder aus Magdeburg und Umgebung website.
S 402 Mack 1010 1954 NYNH&H 19 Acquired 7/58, see note 4.
All untrasonic.
Retired in 1985, see note 5
S 403 Mack 1009 1954 NYNH&H 18 Acquired 9/58, see note 4.
S X-107 J.G. Brill-SRS 1930 NYC X-8015 see note 3
 ROSTER NOTES====
This roster, compiled from a couple of sources, is not up to date. It should be noted that Sperry does not reuse or duplicate fleet numbers.
A number of cars also carry a name on the front of the car. These names honor long service employees.
1 - SRS 125 was shipped to Europe in 1961 to conduct rail testing there. It returned to the United States on board the S.S. Le Moyne D'Iberville,
being unloaded in New York on May 14, 1963.
2 - All Sperry Rail Service cars have been re-powered with Caterpillar engines.
3 - Following publication of a Sperry Rail Service roster in the January 1979 Railfan magazine, Tom DeJoseph of Sperry wrote the following comment (edited):
107 did not exist as a Sperry Car. This number was used as a production number for a Brill Car that was delivered to Sperry. Sperry merely installed the
defect detection equipment in the car for the New York Central Railroad (NYC road number X8015).
In 1969, Sperry purchased X-8015 from the Penn Central. It was then renumbered back to its original production number with the "X" signifying both the
NYC heritage as well as differentiating it as an engineering vehicle.
X-107 was donated to the Railroad Museum of New England (aka Naugatuck RR), Waterbury, CT, USA in 1987. Plans are to restore the car as a doodlebug.
4 - SRS 402 and 403 were converted from Mack FCD Type ll railbuses.
5 - SRS 402 suffered fire damage in 1985 in the Windsor Tunnel while returning to the USA from Canada and was retired. |
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Abbreviations:-
ARA = American Railway Association
B&M = Boston & Maine
B&O = Baltimore & Ohio
C&NW = Chicago & North Western
CN = Canadian National
EMC = Electro-Motive Corp.
HTT = Harsco Track Technologies
LV = Lehigh Valley
MILW = Milwaukee Road
MP = Missouri Pacific
N&W = Norfolk & Western
NYC = New York Central
NYNH&H = New York, New Haven & Hartford
RI = Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
SAL = Seaboard Air Line
SLSF = St. Louis-San Francisco
SRS = Sperry Rail Service
UP = Union Pacific |
Car types:-
D-D = Double unit detector car
D-T = Double unit detector car, later used as part of a triple-unit car
DUO-1 = One man ultrasonic joint tester
DUO-3 = One man ultrasonic joint tester
DUO-4 = One man ultrasonic joint tester, electric drive
HRB = Hi-rail bus, diesel-electric drive
HT = Hand test car, self propelled for verification of defect indications
MC = Motor car (tow unit) for double or triple-unit detector cars
S = Single unit self-propelled detector car
X = Experimental
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