Steam & Excursion > A few old Espee 2-8-8-2s

A friend popped these old b&w shots in a recent letter. The first is MC-2 SP4002 at Alturas, CA. on 8-3-37. Those old "Wamps" spent a lot of years on the Modoc before retirement.

The second shot is MC-2 SP4003 on the Siskiyou Line at Ashland on 11-19-45.

The third shot is MC-6 SP4037 at Alturas on 3-8-38.

Tony J.

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Great photos Tony, thanks for posting them.
Roger Beckett

Thanks for posting these....man, those locos were seriously ugly (in my humble opinion).

I bet they could pull, though.

LJG

Nice wamps, Tony!

Stan

These are great and I really appreciate your having shared them. Thanks a lot!

John

Fascinating machines. I think the earliest MC's had Baldwin separable boilers, but all of these are clearly superheated.

Am I mistaken, or are all those cylinders actually the same diameter?

And, would some SP nut please advise the term "wamps"?

MTMEngineer Wrote:
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> Fascinating machines. I think the earliest MC's
> had Baldwin separable boilers, but all of these
> are clearly superheated.
>
> Am I mistaken, or are all those cylinders actually
> the same diameter?
>
> And, would some SP nut please advise the term
> "wamps"?


IIRC, the nickname "wamps" came from enginemen who said it came from the sound they produced. - Tony J.