Steam & Excursion > Location Identification Needed On This SP&S Train!

Here is a nice view of an SP&S passenger train headed by 4-6-0 #151 for which I have no location information.

I am hoping some of our SP&S experts out there can help locate where this train is. She appears to be pulling into a station stop with the one crewman in the combine ready to hop off.

Any ideas?

Martin



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 03/05/15 03:26 by LoggerHogger.

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I had been thinking Metolius or Culver City on the OT but that hill in the background is not lining up.

I think it was Metolius that had a roundhouse and may have been a crew change or some other major significance, almost a ghost town now but not quite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metolius,_Oregon

Can't answer the question posed, but love the shot.

That engine has a lot of character. That it's an
SP&S engine is all the more appealing. Back then,
you could tell where you were just by looking at
what train was going by - almost, anyway, lol.

Got me thinking - what other SP&S engines survive?
Something you often ask when you see class one
railroad engines still in existence but not so
much with the smaller regional lines.

Turns out - only 4-8-4 SP&S #700.

Well, not 100% true, recall 2-8-2 SP&S #539 which
was moved to the Grand Canyon for a restoration to
operation that never happened. The engine was,
however, cosmetically restored as GCRY #539.

SP&S #539 was originally built in 1917 for Northern
Pacific (as #1762)and later sold (in 1944) to the SP&S.

/Mitch

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My first thought is Goldendale when there was still passenger service.

Larry Dodgion
Wilsonville, OR



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/06/15 08:17 by truxtrax.

Martin,

I don't have anything concrete to offer, but this could very well be somewhere along the Astoria line in the late 1940's. According to "Steam Locomotives of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, Volume 2" by Ed Austin, the SP&S acquired 150 and 151 in 1911 after the SP&S took over the Astoria and Columbia River. The 150 and 151 had been ordered buy the AC&R but delivered after the SP&S takeover. The 150 and 151 spent most of their time on the Astoria Line. I have a print I purchased from Warren Wing which shows SP&S 150 in Seaside, Oregon in 1947. In my print, it appears that the same combine (RPO?) is behind the locomotive as the one in your photo. The scuff marks on the side of the car appear to match. If the SP&S used the same consist on a regular basis, that along with the normal engine assignments would put this somewhere on the Astoria Line. Also, I think the landscape and the hill in the background of your photo looks to me like western Oregon. I hope this helps.

Joe

Notice the hills relative to the track in the first postcard. I can barely make out a "15" on the number plate of the second card.

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