Re: [Photo] What was SP train #247?
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 12-18-2015 - 19:32
Chas Wrote:
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> Sacramento to Oakland local. The Daylight
> connection from San Jose to Oakland was train
> number 255. The Alco road switcher was one of
> three ALCO demonstrators that the Southern Pacific
> purchased in 1956. They were equipped with steam
> boilers and ran long hood forward. They
> demonstrated on the Peninsula commute runs, but I
> never saw them there after the SP purchased them
> and painted them into black widow colors.
While all three demonstrators had steam lines and trainlined boiler controls, only the 5722 had a steam generator and boiler water.