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Nostalgia & History > SP AC's on Beaumont HillDate: 06/29/16 07:27 SP AC's on Beaumont Hill Author: SP2778 SP 4187 helps SP 4238 up Beaumont Hill to Beaumont then turns on the wy and puts cab back on the train before returning to Colton.
Old 8mm film by B.J.Root. c.1950 . Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/29/16 07:49 by SP2778. You must be a registered subscriber to watch videos. Join Today! Date: 06/29/16 08:16 Re: SP AC's on Beaumont Hill Author: YankeeDog That smoke makes me cringe. Either that engine has some serious mechanical problems or the worlds worst fireman.
Date: 06/29/16 08:18 Re: SP AC's on Beaumont Hill Author: ntharalson As I watched this, thinking about what I could say and realizing I could nitpick it to death,
it hit me that I was just lucky to even SEE this. Thanks for posting it. It seemed to me that helper was working very hard and producing an awful lot of black smoke today's EPA would heavily frown on. SP fans will love this video, that's for sure. Nick Tharalson, Marion, IA Date: 06/29/16 08:52 Re: SP AC's on Beaumont Hill Author: callum_out I remember watching an AC-12 as a helper in San Timeteo and at low speeds and working
hard they smoked a ton! You'd see them between Bassett and Puente at speed with fairly clean stacks. Great memories. Out Date: 06/29/16 08:54 Re: SP AC's on Beaumont Hill Author: Frisco1522 Back in the day. Sure was overfiring the poor thing, but it's a great video to watch. Thank you!
Date: 06/29/16 09:14 Re: SP AC's on Beaumont Hill Author: Westbound Great rare film. Interesting to see the bay window caboose with orange end in service with steam on the SP.
Date: 06/29/16 09:49 Re: SP AC's on Beaumont Hill Author: patd3985 I can hear that distinctive "wheeze" of the air pumps from here!
Date: 06/29/16 10:02 Re: SP AC's on Beaumont Hill Author: jkh2cpu Westbound Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Great rare film. Interesting to see the bay window > caboose with orange end in service with steam on > the SP. Whenever we got over to Glendale to pick up relatives from the bay area (late 1940's-early 1950s), we were treated with an SP steam parade. These bay window jobs started showing up (in my memory) around then. Those cabooses were just as surprising to a 4 year old as was the occasional Diesel. John. Date: 06/29/16 11:22 Re: SP AC's on Beaumont Hill Author: HotWater Remember what crap fuel was being used during those final years of steam on SP.
Date: 06/29/16 11:51 Re: SP AC's on Beaumont Hill Author: callum_out Judging from Mexican adventures, the fuel was their rejects!!
Out Date: 06/29/16 18:22 Re: SP AC's on Beaumont Hill Author: DWGOLDE Who cares about the smoke, this is a really cool video. I like how they cut off the helper and then Y it and then put the caboose back on the train.
Date: 06/29/16 20:18 Re: SP AC's on Beaumont Hill Author: RuleG ntharalson Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > > It seemed to me that helper was working very hard > and producing an awful lot of black smoke > today's EPA would heavily frown on. > > > Nick Tharalson, > Marion, IA Air pollution regulators and some railroads frowned upon engineers running their steam locomotives with a lot of smoke long before the EPA was created. Date: 06/30/16 13:45 Re: SP AC's on Beaumont Hill Author: spsniper Those guys were getting dirty, probley a heavy train knowing SP, not to mention the grade! Didn't change much into the diesel years either when it came to the SP engines smokin it up! (of course alot of that was do to mechanical problems). Really killer old film!
Date: 06/30/16 15:09 Re: SP AC's on Beaumont Hill Author: triestin This had to be filmed in the late 50's. At 3:21 that's a 56' ford fairlane crossing the bridge.
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