Re: Paging Professors Fox and Johnson
Author: Tony Johnson
Date: 11-01-2013 - 11:05
OPRRMS Wrote:
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> Chas Wrote:
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> > I know that the 50, which was the first gas
> > turbine locomotive, was on the SP and was in
> San
> > Jose (on display). I do not know what SP
> trackage
> > was used. UP turbines were regular visitors to
> > Los Angeles in 1963. All three types of
> turbines
> > of that time were involved in LA visits.
>
> OK, Wes and Tony, your mission, should you choose
> to accept it, is to find out how and under what
> circumstances the unit made it to the Bay Area.
>
> If this were a Santa Fe question, I'd ask Evan.
>
> I'll be waiting up.
I didn't say turbines made it to the Bay Area, although they might have for display/exhibition purposes. They did make it to LA via Cajon.