Nostalgia & History > Los Angeles-SP Taylor RH

Sept, & Oct. 1954
(8mm film by Barney Root).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/22/17 07:06 by SP2778.

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Holy.  Smokes.  If there is ever a "wow" for today, this is the post for it.  WOW!

Lee Hower - Sacramento

A great addition indeed!
​When I was a cub scout one of our leaders arranged for a field trip to Taylor roundhouse. The person SP
assigned to guide our group apparently was more impressed with the then new diesel ramp and its building
​than those old, dirty steam engines. But we did eventually venture outside and we were allowed to climb
​into the cab of a cold cab-forward. And to think this was only about 8 years before I went to work at the very
​same, although much rearranged by then, roundhouse; using the same turntable in Barney Root's film.
​I'm learning 8 years is a blink of the eye. Thanks for the great post.

Charlie
 



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Wow is right!
What the heck is the odd piece that looks like a tender with drive wheels and a silver boiler face moving under it's own power about halfway thru the clip???

That is the Rounhouse Goat, rebuilt from an older engine.

Victor A. Baird
​http://www.erstwhilepublications.com

RNP47 Wrote:
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> Wow is right!
> What the heck is the odd piece that looks like a
> tender with drive wheels and a silver boiler face
> moving under it's own power about halfway thru the
> clip???

RNP47 Wrote:
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> Wow is right!
> What the heck is the odd piece that looks like a
> tender with drive wheels and a silver boiler face
> moving under it's own power about halfway thru the
> clip???

​That is the roundhouse 'Dinky'. SP used these at several locations. By labor agreement they were run by
locomotive engineers ​not​ hostlers the reason being the Dinky was used to also move freight car loads of
​non-revenue company material such as sand, flatcars carrying diesel engines, traction motors etc. Hostlers
were not qualified to do these chores since air brakes were often required. Of course the Dinky was most
often used to move locomotives about that could not move themselves as we see in this movie. The reason
​it looks ''like a tender" is that it is a 'tank' engine that carried its water alongside and around the boiler.

Charlie



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According to Guy Dunscombs book on SP steam, SP 567 was originally built as SP 1108 in
1903. It was converted to shop switcher 2/567 in 1940.
 1st 567 was scrapped in 1937.

Another great video.  Thanks for posting.  

Ryan
sphauler
Long live the SP!

I imagine a dinky and a cab-forward couldn't fit on the turntable at the same time.

Still photos of shop switcher 567 can be found in the following threads:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,3807578,3809151
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,3003148,3003148

 



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cewherry Wrote:
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> A great addition indeed!
> ​When I was a cub scout one of our leaders
> arranged for a field trip to Taylor roundhouse.
> The person SP
> assigned to guide our group apparently was more
> impressed with the then new diesel ramp and its
> building
> ​than those old, dirty steam engines. But we did
> eventually venture outside and we were allowed to
> climb
> ​into the cab of a cold cab-forward. And to
> think this was only about 8 years before I went to
> work at the very
> ​same, although much rearranged by then,
> roundhouse; using the same turntable in Barney
> Root's film.
> ​I'm learning 8 years is a blink of the eye.
> Thanks for the great post.
>
> Charlie

Charlie,
Was "cab forward" a term for the AC's and earlier engines of that type that was coined by the Espee or was it a railfan name for them? Every Espee brother from that era that I ever knew referred to them as backup malleys or cab aheads, never cab forwards that I can recall.

Thanks Barney....as you look down from the RR in the Sky, what do you think of Taylor today!

Miss seeing you around Colton.