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Re: GS on the Mayfield
Author: Tom Moungovan
Date: 02-06-2010 - 20:28

Arch Tube Wrote:
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> Is it possible that one of the "Big Game" specials
> would have ran as 132? I'm fighting a fading
> memory here, but for some reason I seem to recall
> hearing it. Be that the case, it would certainly
> explain a GS on the point as it wouldn't have
> polished the rails much past California Ave wye.
> Sure would have been something, though, to hear
> superpower squealing down that flimsy Harriman-era
> rail, assuming it didn't end up on the ground.

I have a nice Wil Whittaker neg of SP 4444 sitting with her train (X4444) in Nov.
of 1950 on the Branch near California Ave. waiting to take fans back to SF from a Stanford
Game. Wil said that this was common practice then.

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