Steam & Excursion > SP 2-10-2's waitng for the call

Its March 1957 and the location is Tracy...My Buddie Ralph buhr just got his first car and we headed to Tracy to see what may or may not be going on...what we found was 2-10-2's 3670 and 3670 on the wiskers and 4-6-0 2328 inthe house. later in March, 2328 would be sent to Pittsburg for scrap and the 2-10-2's would follow next year to Pittsburg also....Both the 3670 and 3690 spent a lot of time on the shasta division before being sent to Roseville to finish their days.....

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Thanks for posting these.

So long ago... and also so many memories ago. Thank you!

Hard to believe those things made it around the curve at Cantara!

Even though the SP was completely dieselized at that time, one thing has been removed from that steam locomotive that remains useful to this day: the front coupler knuckle.

The 2-10-2's were real work horses for the SP.  It is sad none were saved, even stuffed and mounted.  

JBWX

jbwest Wrote:
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> The 2-10-2's were real work horses for the SP.
>  It is sad none were saved, even stuffed and
> mounted.  
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> JBWX


There are two of them.

T&NO 975, orignally donated to Beaumont, Texas, now at the Illinois Railroad Museum:

T&NO 982, originally SP 3651, donated to Houston, Texas. Currently in jeopardy.

Hello Barstool,

When you and your buddy traveled to Tracy, were you hoping to find active steam, or did you know that all was dead?