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Re: SP steam and diesel mystery.... Hostlers more likely.....
Author: Hot Water
Date: 01-28-2023 - 15:39
BOB2 Wrote:
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> Bob Dobbs Wrote:
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> > I wonder if this is a move of locomotive for
> > scrapping or display- there is no railroad name
> or
> > locomotive number, and there is rust on the
> > locomotive. B
>
>
> Rust? Better eyes than me.....
>
> Looks like a GS-6 "war baby" still that would have
> been less than ten years old when this photo was
> likely taken.
GS-6 4-8-4s had a MUCH bigger tender than that. Looks more like one of the later pacific with the skyline casing.
> This is probably hostlers bringing her to LAUPT,
> probably, by the early fifties, from Taylor, and
> they are just using the diesel for ease, and the
> ride back.
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> Bob Dobbs Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I wonder if this is a move of locomotive for
> > scrapping or display- there is no railroad name
> or
> > locomotive number, and there is rust on the
> > locomotive. B
>
>
> Rust? Better eyes than me.....
>
> Looks like a GS-6 "war baby" still that would have
> been less than ten years old when this photo was
> likely taken.
GS-6 4-8-4s had a MUCH bigger tender than that. Looks more like one of the later pacific with the skyline casing.
> This is probably hostlers bringing her to LAUPT,
> probably, by the early fifties, from Taylor, and
> they are just using the diesel for ease, and the
> ride back.
