Nostalgia & History > Espee Moguls

After going through some of my photo collection I thought these might be of interest. I've always had a fondness for the smaller Espee power as they worked everywhere.

Here's 2-6-0 SP1645 at Oakland, CA on May 31, 1936

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SP1707 at Napa, CA. on June 12, 1947. - Tony J.

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SP1728 at Oakland Roundhouse on Jan. 4, 1952. - Tony J.

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SP1744 at Knights Landing (Knights Landing Branch) on a fantrip. - Tony J.

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A Bert Ward photo of SP1758 at Crescent Lake, OR. in October 1950. - Tony J.

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2-6-0 SP1759 next to the Brentwood, CA. depot. Date unknown. - Tony J.

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SP1773 ready to go. Date and location unknown. - Tony J.

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2-6-0 SP1774 also ready to depart. Date and location unknown, although I suspect Fresno. - Tony J.

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SP1775 on the deadline with 4-8-4 SP4455 behind it. Date and location unknown. - Tony J.

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2-6-0 SP1783. Date and location unknown. - Tony J.

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SP1795 on a Cal-Nev. RR Historical Society special on the San Ramon Branch - May 4, 1947. - Tony J.

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Last one for this series. SP1806 with 2-8-0 SP2700 nest to it. Date and location unknown. - Tony J.

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Thanks Tony. Love those "Valley Mallets".

Nudge

Tony, thanks for sharing these here. I looked up the 1806 in my assignment books, she was a Western Division engine around 1950, but went to the San Joaquin in late '51. She was there at least though early '53.

Tom

Was the third photo really taken at Oakland?
This would mean that the east end of the roundhouse was radically different from its west end.

I agree. That doesn't look like the West Oakland round house that I remember.

What are the "rural mailbox" shaped things hanging
below the cab windows ,close to the rail,on most of the 1700s'?

Thanks

Mark

Markedup Wrote:
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> What are the "rural mailbox" shaped things
> hanging
> below the cab windows ,close to the rail,on most
> of the 1700s'?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark


These are used so that when the boiler is blown down, the water and steam is just not shot all over. It is known as a muffler blow down which easily directs the water and steam to the ground without hurting anything or anybody.


steamjocky--close enough for railroad work

JohnSweetser Wrote:
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> Was the third photo really taken at Oakland?
> This would mean that the east end of the
> roundhouse was radically different from its west
> end.


That's what is written on the back of the photo. - Tony J.

The third photo definitely is not the Oakland roundhouse, as a comparison with a photo on page 229 of John Signor's "Southern Pacific's Western Division" reveals (it took me awhile to find a photo showing the end wall of the east side of the Oakland roundhouse).

It does look exactly like Taylor roundhouse in L.A. (or maybe another roundhouse constucted to Taylor's design if there was such a thing).