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Re: SP steam and diesel mystery- Scrap? Maybe? But what the hell was it doing at LAUPT?
Author: BOB2
Date: 01-29-2023 - 08:10
Peter D Wrote:
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> 4-6-2, rusty rods, smoke box, some piping missing
> above the drivers, no glass in the cab. I'd say
> scrap candidate. For you southern Cal folks, 50's,
> where did they scrap locos at. I seem to think,
> maybe long beach area? In the Sac area, Purdy's
> fronting N B street at N 12th street.
> For those interestd, seller who goes by footscreek
> selling dupes of cab forwards on the Modoc. Bunch.
It all comes back to the same question (and my resulting confusion, as well???), what was this doing at LAUPT, in the early fifties (very late forties?) with the S-12?
Would SP have deadheaded or run such junk on a passenger to LAUPT and then take it to the Shops deadline for scrapping?
All of the remaining "newest" (many oil converts from the EPSW...)
462's would have been based on the Penninsula for commutes by the early fifties, and 484's were used for Coast/Valley trains from most accounts I've heard...
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> 4-6-2, rusty rods, smoke box, some piping missing
> above the drivers, no glass in the cab. I'd say
> scrap candidate. For you southern Cal folks, 50's,
> where did they scrap locos at. I seem to think,
> maybe long beach area? In the Sac area, Purdy's
> fronting N B street at N 12th street.
> For those interestd, seller who goes by footscreek
> selling dupes of cab forwards on the Modoc. Bunch.
It all comes back to the same question (and my resulting confusion, as well???), what was this doing at LAUPT, in the early fifties (very late forties?) with the S-12?
Would SP have deadheaded or run such junk on a passenger to LAUPT and then take it to the Shops deadline for scrapping?
All of the remaining "newest" (many oil converts from the EPSW...)
462's would have been based on the Penninsula for commutes by the early fifties, and 484's were used for Coast/Valley trains from most accounts I've heard...
