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Steam & Excursion > One For Feather River Friday - Steam As It Should Be!Date: 03/18/11 05:59 One For Feather River Friday - Steam As It Should Be! Author: LoggerHogger March 30, 1938 found noted Railfan Guy L. Dunscomb trackside just out of Keddie, CA on the Western Pacific's feather River Route. WP mallet #260 was on the head-end of a long cut of freight cars having just left the servicing facilities at Keddie.
Guy noted that #260 was flying green flags on this run. Martin  Date: 03/18/11 06:30 Re: One For Feather River Friday - Steam As It Should B Author: YG All I can think about is what it must have sounded like....
Steve Mitchell http://www.yardgoatimages.com Date: 03/18/11 08:12 Re: One For Feather River Friday - Steam As It Should B Author: Hillcrest That's exactly what I was going to say...Nice shot.
Cheers, Dave Date: 03/18/11 08:20 Re: One For Feather River Friday - Steam As It Should B Author: SierraRail Did those big mallets pretty much stay between Oroville and Portola, or did they venture east to Winnamucca?
Date: 03/18/11 11:54 Re: One For Feather River Friday - Steam As It Should B Author: patd3985 Are you sure it's a mallet and not a simple articulated? Those front engines don't look any bigger than the rears.
Date: 03/18/11 12:37 Re: One For Feather River Friday - Steam As It Should B Author: Kimball As I understand it, the name Mallet just stuck even though they were simples. Why would the cylinder cocks be open in this shot?
Date: 03/18/11 12:59 Re: One For Feather River Friday - Steam As It Should B Author: Keystone1 Martin- What a picture! What an engine!!!
Date: 03/18/11 14:30 Re: One For Feather River Friday - Steam As It Should B Author: YankeeDog If it just left the servicing facilities it is good to clear the water from the cylinders.
Date: 03/18/11 17:11 Re: One For Feather River Friday - Steam As It Should B Author: zephyrus The WP 251s were simple articulated 2-8-8-2s, but the crews all called them Big Malleys or Big Wamps. They were predominately assigned Oroville to Portola, although they reportedly did work down the Central Valley once in a while. Never heard of one working to Winnemucca regularly.
They were also the most powerful steamers to regularly be used in California. Would outpull a cab-forward. Z Date: 03/18/11 18:26 Re: One For Feather River Friday - Steam As It Should B Author: xtra1188w When I was growing up on Tennessee Pass on the Rio Grande back in the 1950's any articulated locomotive was referred to as a Malley. I imagine that the same thing was true on the WP. After all, the WP was the kid brother of the Rio Grande.
Con Date: 03/18/11 23:35 Re: One For Feather River Friday - Steam As It Should B Author: Mgoldman Awe, come on... like such a scene could've ever really have existed in real life!!
/Mitch Date: 03/19/11 16:52 Re: One For Feather River Friday - Steam As It Should B Author: rehunn Damn nice modeling.
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