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Re: Locomotives Assigned Southern Pacific Company
Author: Tom Moungovan
Date: 03-04-2009 - 06:29

Tom Moungovan Wrote:
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> One thing that I have always found interesting
> about SP utilization of steam is that in the year
> 1956, the last full year of steam, the railroad
> used 12 different wheel arrangements:
> 0-6-0
> 2-6-0
> 4-6-0
> 4-6-2
> 0-8-0
> 2-8-0
> 2-8-2
> 4-8-2
> 4-8-2
> 2-10-2
> 4-8-8-2
> 2-8-8-4 (3804 and 3805 on the Modoc until around
> March)
> You could also argue the Bayshore shop switcher
> 966, an 0-6-0T, an another.
>
> Compare this with ATSF which was only using 4-8-4
> and 2-10-4 types out of Belen to Mountainaire, NM
> in the summer of 1957.

Well, I see the dreaded typo bit me in the butt...I listed the 4-8-2 twice and meant to write
4-8-4 below the first 4-8-2. These gol-durned modern machines give me fits sometimes!

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  Locomotives Assigned Southern Pacific Company Tom Moungovan 03-03-2009 - 21:30
  Re: Locomotives Assigned Southern Pacific Company John West 03-03-2009 - 21:44
  Re: Locomotives Assigned Southern Pacific Company Tom Moungovan 03-03-2009 - 21:47
  Re: Locomotives Assigned Southern Pacific Company Tom Moungovan 03-03-2009 - 22:14
  Re: Locomotives Assigned Southern Pacific Company John West 03-03-2009 - 23:17
  Re: Locomotives Assigned Southern Pacific Company Tom Moungovan 03-04-2009 - 06:29
  Re: Shasta Division- September 30, 1952 Tom Moungovan 03-04-2009 - 07:07
  Re: Shasta Division- September 30, 1952 William Nicholson 03-04-2009 - 07:41
  Re: Shasta Division- September 30, 1952 Tom Moungovan 03-04-2009 - 10:31
  Re: Western Division- September 30, 1952 Tom Moungovan 03-04-2009 - 11:04
  Re: Shasta Division- September 30, 1952 J Mann 03-04-2009 - 11:27
  Re: Shasta Division- September 30, 1952 Tom Moungovan 03-04-2009 - 16:28
  Re: Coast Division-March 31, 1955 Tom Moungovan 03-04-2009 - 19:27
  Re: Coast Division-March 31, 1955 Tony Johnson 03-04-2009 - 22:44
  Re: Coast Division-March 31, 1955 Exespee 03-05-2009 - 08:15
  Re: Coast Division-March 31, 1955 Tom Moungovan 03-05-2009 - 10:15
  Re: Coast Division-March 31, 1955 Exespee 03-06-2009 - 09:24
  Re: Coast Division-March 31, 1955 John West 03-07-2009 - 21:07
  Re: Coast Division-March 31, 1955 Tom Moungovan 03-07-2009 - 23:47
  Re: "Retirement of Motive Power" Ken Middlebrook 03-04-2009 - 21:26
  Re: "Retirement of Motive Power" John West 03-04-2009 - 22:47


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