Nostalgia & History > Espee 2-8-0s for Steamjocky

Time for me to dig through my stuff after viewing Steamjockey's earlier posts on SP 2-8-0s. Here's San Diego & Arizona Eastern #103 on the Bayshore deadline in January 1961. - Tony J.

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SD&AE #105 gets ready for a day's work. Date and location unknown. - Tony J.

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Here's an ancient SP "hog" - 2-8-0 SP2514. Date and location unknown. - Tony J.

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SP2573. Date and location unknown. - Tony J.

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SP2635. Date and location unknown. - Tony J.

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Looks like 2-8-0 SP2703 is now a 2-4-4- as it goes through tests. Date and location unknown. - Tony J.

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2-8-0 SP2717 heads a local freight. Looks like around Fruitvale Tower. Captions says "Oakland, Jan. 15, 1947. - Tony J.

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2-8-0 SP2528 all steamed up next to a roundhouse (Fresno perhaps?). GS4 SP4443 is inside the roundhouse. Date and location unknown. - Tony J.

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2-8-0 SP2741 at a yard somewhere. Date and location unknown. - Tony J.

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2-8-0 SP2758 on the Bayshore deadline in January 1961. - Tony J.

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Here's 2-8-0 SP2776 with a "whaleback" tender - probably from an old AC. 4-8-0 SP2911 is nearby. Date and location unknown. Perhaps Eugene. - Tony J.

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This photo is poor, but it interests me. It shows 2-8-0 SP2786 pulling at least one passenger car through Bayshore Yard. The train is not on the mainline and I can't read the numbers in the numberboards. - Tony J.

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2-8-0 SP2815 ready to pull an extra freight. Notice the "Sunset" emblem on the boxcar. Date and location unknown. - Tony J.

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2-8-0 SP2818 is coupled to 2-8-8-2 SP4005. With X4005 in the numberboards, it'll help the 4005 up the hill. Date and location unknown, but it could be Oakridge. I don't think it's Dunsmuir. - Tony J.

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SP2864, one of the ex-SSW 2-8-0s transferred to the SP in the Spring of 1956, is on the Bayshore deadline in January 1961. As a sidenote: early last year I recieved a video showing a friend's old movies. In several scenes there is a doubleheader passenger train on the Santa Cruz Branch - probably the Suntan Speical or a railfan excursion - and the second locomotive is one of the former SSW 2-8-0s. I never thought any of these 2-8-0s made it on a passenger train. - Tony J.

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Tony,

Thanks again.

Nudge

I'm not an expert on this, but the photo of no. 2776 with the whaleback tender suggests the tender was from an AC-class engine. Believe none of the ACs had whaleback tenders, but the MMs (MCs) did. One of you more knowledgeable folks can sort it out for us.

Winston Hill

TonyJ Wrote:
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> Looks like 2-8-0 SP2703 is now a 2-4-4- as it goes
> through tests.

Looks like a stationary boiler.

The SP 2635 photo predates silver smokebox fronts, so it's 1930s or early 1940s at the latest. Note on top of the smokebox front, there is a platform for the old top-mounted flared-base headlight.

- Doug Debs

The tender on the 2776 is very different from the whaleback tenders used behind the AC-1s, AC-2s, AC-3s, and AM-2s, and later, some of the ex-B&M T-la 2-8-4s. The tenders used on these bigger engines were much taller and carried much more oil and water than the small tender behind the 2776. I think the smaller whalebacks used on 2-8-0s and numerous other smaller engines were as delivered or maybe scratchbuilt in Sacramento very early. I am sure others can explain the smaller whalebacks better.