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Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides
Author: Tony Johnson
Date: 02-20-2010 - 09:19

I haven't hd many locomotive rides in my life (a dozen or so), but my first is my most memorable as it was my only ride in an SP steam locomotive. It was 1954 at Espee's Mission Bay Roundhouse in San Francisco. As a kid I used to hang around there as much as I could.

One of the Potrero Towermen was showing me around one nice Saturday afternoon when he called over a hostler friend he knew and said, "Why don't you give this kid a ride?" We climbed in the cab of 4-8-2 SP4337 parked on one of the leads and he moved it on the turntable. We spun around a quarter circle or so and nosed the Mountain into one of the roundhouse stalls.

That's it. It was the shortest locomotive ride in my life, but it's my favorite.

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  Memorable Locomotive Rides Tom Moungovan 02-20-2010 - 06:37
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Steve Eshom 02-20-2010 - 07:03
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Rick Zampa 02-20-2010 - 16:41
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides ff 02-21-2010 - 11:55
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Randy 02-22-2010 - 07:41
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Bill Kohler 02-20-2010 - 07:36
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Bob Jennings 02-20-2010 - 07:57
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Carol L. Voss 02-20-2010 - 08:58
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Bill K. 02-21-2010 - 06:20
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Carol L. Voss 02-21-2010 - 09:20
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Paul Bliss 02-22-2010 - 10:53
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Juppo 02-20-2010 - 14:27
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Steven D. Johnson 02-20-2010 - 11:49
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Virlon 02-20-2010 - 09:07
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Tony Johnson 02-20-2010 - 09:19
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides WAF 02-20-2010 - 10:03
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides TomL 02-20-2010 - 10:14
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides BOB2 02-20-2010 - 10:49
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Mongo 02-20-2010 - 10:52
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides almo 02-21-2010 - 01:07
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Tunnel Motor Dave 02-21-2010 - 08:15
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Steven D. Johnson 02-20-2010 - 11:28
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Martin Burwash 02-20-2010 - 12:14
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides-2 Tom Moungovan 02-20-2010 - 13:09
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides-Best Thread in Months BOB2 02-20-2010 - 13:46
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Jim Wickham 02-20-2010 - 13:23
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Robert LANGEVIN 02-20-2010 - 15:52
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides, Cal-Western Tom Moungovan 02-20-2010 - 19:09
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides ExEspee 02-20-2010 - 16:27
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Bill 02-20-2010 - 18:46
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Dan 02-20-2010 - 18:58
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Sunset Express 02-20-2010 - 19:06
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Tom 02-20-2010 - 20:07
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Ernest H. Robl 02-20-2010 - 19:45
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides JHS 02-20-2010 - 19:47
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Ken Shattock (aka 'KRK') 02-21-2010 - 00:06
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Miles Post 02-21-2010 - 09:50
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides JCA 02-21-2010 - 11:09
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Railgeek 02-21-2010 - 12:18
  Re: Memorable Rides -- does a speeding Pendolino count? Dragoman 02-21-2010 - 14:34
  Re: Memorable Rides -- does a speeding Pendolino count? ff 02-21-2010 - 15:48
  Re: Memorable Rides -- Swiss style Suset Express 02-21-2010 - 16:39
  Re: Memorable Rides -- the Fab Four Craig Tambo 02-21-2010 - 20:50
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides gbrewer 02-22-2010 - 08:05
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Paul Bliss 02-22-2010 - 11:34
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides hepkema 02-22-2010 - 13:51
  Re: Memorable Locomotive Rides Peter D. 02-23-2010 - 16:35
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