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Heyseed

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Been driving by this guy for a long time. Stopped today and took some pics. Looks like a small tractor for track work. Didn't want to open any doors or the hood, but it looks to be diesel. has steel trucks under it.
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Yes that was the Battery. Thing looks like it weighs
a chunk. Sitting on steel plates. I'm sure it's not
fun to move around
 
Made by Fate-Root-Heath in Plymouth, OH. They made switch engines like this for many years, but in the hard times of the depression they developed and made the Plymouth tractor starting about 1935. For the first two years they were called "Plymouth", but after settling a lawsuit with Chrysler, the name was changed to "Silver King". Tractors were pretty popular in our section of Ohio, 8 miles from Plymouth, especially right after WWII. Even though they were well made and rugged, eventually they couldn't compete with the larger makers and dropped the tractors around 1956, and went back to building locomotives. The company is still in business as far as I know.
 
I used to work at a factory that had one of those. It had one car behind it and hauled clay back and forth every day. I can't remember what engine it originally had in it, but we pulled it and dropped in a Cummins.
 
there was one similar on the wharves in Galveston,Tx that was used to move cotton cars around...should have trucks and drive wheels under it...too heavy to be a hover craft ;)
 
There are two of them at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris Ca., This one is on display in a car barn there.
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