Re: Benecia Scrap 1975
Author: Craig Tambo
Date: 02-05-2012 - 09:57
Butler Wrote:
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> OPRRMS --- You are absolutely correct! I checked
> the original picture and the caption has date
> 8/20/73. My apologies for my bullheaded
> insistance that it was 1964.
I distinctly remember visiting the Benicia scrapyard in the Fall of 1974. All that was left of the Train Masters was a couple of short hoods. There were several "intact" H12-44s, a couple of Alco S-4s and one S-2, and a BLH S-12 (which I believe California Western had bought from SP, stripped parts, and sold for scrap).