SP 0-6-0 Wrote:
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> Thanks! The image was hijacked by Pinterest (my
> least favorite web app!!) in my Google searches,
> so I could not find the original source of it.
> The original source you linked confirms it is same
> loco:
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> "Pacific States Steel Atlas 35T EC, Oakland CA
> 1958, nee USN Depot#2 Hawaii, to Oakland Drydock,
> To Pt of Oakland, blt 1933 cn 1905"
>
> I'm curious about the WP steam tender, though. Is
> that photo of a museum collection?

The steam tender is one of two or three that WP converted to water cars for use on Trains 1 & 2 when they were dieselized, as a single F3A couldn't carry enough boiler water to last between terminals. Since the trains were usually only two cars, it wasn't worth adding a B-unit just for the steam generator (although that's exactly what Santa Fe did in certain circumstances). Once Budd RDCs were assigned to #1-2, they were no longer needed.