Re: GS-4s did operate on the overland
Author: Chris Walker
Date: 01-09-2019 - 00:29
ke6qr Wrote:
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> I beg to differ. In a recent book on the Nevada
> Northern there is a photo of a GS-4 daylight
> engine with the Overland Limited stopped at Cobre
> Nevada making across the platform transfer to the
> N and N # 40 and train for Ely. The book was
> written Mark and Joan Basset and is a great book
> of past and present N and N.
ke6qr
FWIW that photo you're referencing is a GS-3 #4425 painted in Daylight colours. There were 11 GS-3's assigned to SL Division June 1951: see Signor, SP's SLD book pg246 and the photo is on pg318.
regards
Chris
in New Zealand