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@ Prof. Johnson
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 11-02-2013 - 15:03

Tony Johnson Wrote:
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> OPRRMS Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Chas Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > 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.

No no. You've misunderstood, son. Your job is to use your connections and knowledge to find how the reason, and the routing, for its trip to the Bay Area. Don't make me come up there! One of the photos I vaguely recall seeing was of it on an eastbound passenger train at Watsonville, possibly "Sad Sam."

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