Nostalgia & History > TO Tuesday: Special Thursday SP Quiz Edition 4 Fans

OK, what's going on here with this work extra?

EO

Note: Train order expertise not required, fans.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/11/16 09:19 by hogheaded.

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"Not protecting" ie you're the only train on the line and will remain so during the duration of the order?

Out

I'm gonna guess, sadly, they're pulling up the track.
SR

callum_out Wrote:
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> "Not protecting" ie you're the only train on the
> line and will remain so during the duration of the
> order?

Well, other trains could enter the 2248's work area, if they were instructed to protect against it.

But we are getting way too technical, here. Think big picture.

EO

2248 was a ten-wheeler!
Rode her once between Sacto and Folsom on a 50's excursion
VP

There is no LOS ALTOS branch

Steve

sundance Wrote:
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> There is no LOS ALTOS branch
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> Steve

Present tense, you're correct. Usually called the Permanente Branch or Vasona Branch now. Not then.

But what was the work extra doing?

EO

Spraying Weeds.

Out

Movie  work.

Nope and nope.

Anyone notice that the date is blocked out?

EO

Special train for a retiring Hogger.
Chris

Why is the year blacked out? Double secret?

engine3420 Wrote:
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> Special train for a retiring Hogger.
> Chris

Orient Wrote:
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> Why is the year blacked out? Double secret?

Warmer... the date is significant, but not for a retiring hoghead...

EO

I might add that one of the respondents above has given a clue so significant that I don't want to blow the contest prematurely by highlighting it.

EO

hogheaded Wrote:
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> sundance Wrote:
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> > There is no LOS ALTOS branch
> >
> > Steve
>
> Present tense, you're correct. Usually called the
> Permanente Branch or Vasona Branch now. Not then.
>
> But what was the work extra doing?
>
> EO
I believe your both wrong Permanente Branch Originates out of San Jose....The old Los Gatos Branch originated out of Palo Alto/Atherton Border...two different Branches,though they may have intersected at some point in the Campbell/Los Gatos area   

Oh oh, in a half hour we're going to have to suspend the contest until evening in favor of a Costco run. Gad, I thought that this would be an easy one for you diehard SP fans, once you crunched the numbers.

As an inducement to end things with dispatch, I want to remind you about the winner's prize. As always, it's a nice fresh virtual can of Bulgarian peas.

EO

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spicolli1864 Wrote:
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> hogheaded Wrote:
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> > sundance Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > -----
> > > There is no LOS ALTOS branch
> > >
> > > Steve
> >
> > Present tense, you're correct. Usually called
> the
> > Permanente Branch or Vasona Branch now. Not
> then.
> >
> > But what was the work extra doing?
> >
> > EO
> I believe your both wrong Permanente Branch
> Originates out of San Jose....The old Los Gatos
> Branch originated out of Palo Alto/Atherton
> Border...two different Branches,though they may
> have intersected at some point in the Campbell/Los
> Gatos area   

Heh heh. Please tell that to all of the guys that I used to work with on the branches (-:

The deal is that SP (including the above TO's dispatcher) called the segment from Cal Avenue to Vasona the Los Altos Branch at one time or another. Orginally, it was known as the Santa Cruz Cutoff, or simply the Cut Off. My fellows also used to informally call it the California Avenue Branch. The line from San Jose to Los Gatos through Vasona was originally the Santa Cruz main (starting with the SPC narrow gauge days), but became the Los Gatos Branch after the line over the hill was washed out in 1940. When the segment between Los Gatos and Vasona was abandoned, the remainder of the Los Gatos Branch came to be called the Vasona Branch. After the California Avenue end of the Los Altos line was abandoned in 1964, that segmant was name-wise lumped in with either the Vasona Branch, or just as commonly the short Permanente Branch up to the cement plant - in the latter case, the Vasona branch was also called the Permanente Branch. Clear as mud, eh? Yeah, the timetables may not have agreed with us always, but ask any local rail where the most convenient spot was to purchase beer next to the tracks on either the Los Altos, or Permanete or Vasona Branches, and the response would invariably be "The Monte Vista Store!" Proper terminology was secondary in our minds to proper hydration.

EO

OK, as warned, TIME OUT until 6:00 PM-ish, PDT.

I am going to be severely disappointed with you fellow SP fans if no answer has appeared by then.

Again, this is not a toughie, if you just crunch the numbers...

EO

OK, I cheated and searched the TO archives.  It was the T. Louis Chess retirement excursion on June 2, 1957.
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,3626281,3626329#msg-3626329

Stephanie Ann

>The deal is that SP (including the above TO's dispatcher) called the segment from Cal Avenue

The junction with the Coast was at Mayfield in them days. I see that the order forms were printed in 8-1956.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/11/16 16:28 by EtoinShrdlu.