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Nostalgia & History > SP at SargentDate: 07/15/06 09:46 SP at Sargent Author: samreeves Here's one of my favorite modern SP locomotives. A northbound morning stack train exits the canyon near Sargent, California in June of 2000. Volunteer lillys are growing in the middle of the unused sugar beet track.
Sam Reeves http://www.samreevesphoto.com [img::]https://cdn.trainorders.com/attachments/thumbs/145000/CN35000607_7.jpg[/img] Date: 07/15/06 14:55 Re: SP at Sargent Author: CimaScrambler Nice shot, Sam. I think your lillies are actually a species of Datura, or Jimpsom Weed, otherwise known in the vernacular as Loco Weed. Though the Loco Weed name could seem to be appropriate for a plant growing between the rails, another sense of the word Loco is intended - as in being nuts. But I suppose one could twist that again into a more favorable sense, such as being nuts for trains, thus the plant could be called Foamer Weed too.
All in a name. A diesel by any other name would probably pull with just as much tractive effort through the canyon at Sargent. - Kit Date: 07/15/06 17:07 Re: SP at Sargent Author: samreeves Date: 07/15/06 17:08 Re: SP at Sargent Author: n6nvr Yep that's Jimson/Locoweed. Those wide cabs sure looked good in Bloody Nose. They reeked of brute power.
Date: 12/04/22 11:03 Re: SP at Sargent Author: dcfbalcoS1 No photo other than the little tea kettle 1298.
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