Lil' Toot
When Salt Lake City hosted three long distance passenger trains per day, a switch engine was required to add and subtract cars from the Desert Wind, Pioneer, and California Zephyr trains. Amtrak SW1 No. 736, nicknamed 'Lil' Toot' is pictured shuffling an EMD F40PH locomotive at the Rio Grande depot on the morning of July 2, 1988. ‘Lil’ Toot’ was built in January 1942 for the New York Central. It would later toil for both Penn Central and Ohio Central before beginning a career with Amtrak. After working in Utah it was transferred to shuttle coaches in Oakland, California until retirement in 2001.
Lil' Toot
When Salt Lake City hosted three long distance passenger trains per day, a switch engine was required to add and subtract cars from the Desert Wind, Pioneer, and California Zephyr trains. Amtrak SW1 No. 736, nicknamed 'Lil' Toot' is pictured shuffling an EMD F40PH locomotive at the Rio Grande depot on the morning of July 2, 1988. ‘Lil’ Toot’ was built in January 1942 for the New York Central. It would later toil for both Penn Central and Ohio Central before beginning a career with Amtrak. After working in Utah it was transferred to shuttle coaches in Oakland, California until retirement in 2001.