Robert LANGEVIN Wrote:
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> In 1946 I rode in the cab of rhe second engine of
> double header California Western night freight
> from Fort Bragg to Willits. The engines were
> 2-6-2s #22 and 23 I think. They were sold to the
> sugar mill in Los Mochos, Mexico. We had to double
> the hill to get to Willits. I never saw so many
> deers crossing the tracks in front of the engines.
> It was morning when we got to Willits.


Robert, you are right about the trio of Prairies, they were the preferred power for the
evening freight, which frequently doubled the hill and sometimes even trippled it! My
late father remembered that when he lived in Fort Bragg. The one that ended up in Los
Mochis at the sugar mill was the 21, the other two were scrapped. I spent an afternoon
on the 21 in the Spring of '69 just to move it outside the enginehouse for a photo. The
folks there were really accommodating to fans.