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Reply to "Mainline freight steam locomotives on the Southern Pacific, 1948-1951"

Norton posted:

You have named most of the ones done in 3 rail except for the F class 2-10-2 also done by 3rd Rail. Not done yet in 3 rail is the unstreamlined GS1, maybe the best looking of all the SP Northerns,

Here is an online source for a listing of SP Steam.

http://espee.railfan.net/sp_steam-index.html

The reference standard is Guy Dunscomb's book "A Century of Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives". Long out of print its worth looking for for your library. It has pictures of every wheel type and and class within that wheel type.

Lots of videos on youtube as well. Very entertaining is the SP promotional film, "This is My Railroad".

 

Pete

Do you happen to know of any pictures of the MT or GS class in freight use? I've seen a couple of the GS class pulling freight. They are black, de-skirted, and usually pulling PFE refrigerator cars or SP Overnight boxcars. Did the GS class pull any other types of fright (i.e. general freight trains) or were they assigned to quicker/more timely freights since they were former passenger locomotives? I know Santa Fe's 2900 class Northers (also former passenger locomotives) were usually assigned to SFRD or boxcar trains, since they carried time sensitive products. I'm assuming that SP used its MT and GS class locomotives in a similar fashion. 

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