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          
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
Date: 2/3/1980 Location: Auburn, AL Views: 1316 Collection Of:   Bernie Feltman
Locomotives: SRS 132(Doodlebug)    Author:  Bernie Feltman
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
Picture Categories: Action This picture is part of album:  Georgia Railroad group (GA; A℘ WofA) action photos
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David Stewart General Great shot!! 8/2/2009 9:45:39 PM
TERRENCE ROBLE General This is a VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY rare photograph of a defect detector with the old display board, I seen a diagram of these in the old SBD timetables and not until I seen this photograph that I ever seen an authentic one. Great preservation of history that this photograph exemplifies!!! Thanks for sharing this to the railfan community... 9/14/2009 11:09:52 PM
Darrell Krueger General !!!! Wow!! I have ALWAYS wondered where this detector exactly was! Fantastic shot! 1/19/2010 11:53:56 AM
James J General I do miss the head end crew announcement "white light!" Neat stuff. 3/17/2010 11:26:02 PM
George Redmond General Good shot, good catch. 7/9/2010 2:43:29 PM
Robert Farkas General This is an "A+" photo! 7/23/2011 2:54:36 PM
Fred Goff General Great shot and great location. 7/23/2011 4:20:09 PM
Wendy Crim General That's interesting! 7/24/2011 9:02:33 PM
Fred Stuckmann General Sweet shot of a cool tool. 7/25/2011 8:52:47 PM
Dennis Weber General Nice Catch & Shot. 7/25/2011 10:18:45 PM

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