Re: OLD WP steam
Author: Craig Tambo
Date: 11-26-2013 - 23:10
HUTCH 7.62 Wrote:
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> Tom Moungovan Wrote:
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> > HUTCH 7.62 Wrote:
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> > > ..... Oddly enough they never cared enough to
> > save
> > > any mainline Western Pacific Steam.
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> > Heavy Mikado 334 resides at Rio Vista
> Junction
> > near Fairfield and a 2-8-0 has been at
> > Traveltown for decades. Those are the
> freight
> > engines. There is also TP-29 94, the
> > 4-6-0 at Rio Vista Junction to represent
> > passenger power.
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> I thought the WP had bigger power than Mikado's?
> Do any the save WP power run?
The 94 ran at Rio Vista Jct. in the 1980s, but not anymore. 0-6-0 #165 is currently under restoration at Portola. Only other WP engine is 0-6-0 #164, in a park in Oroville.