Steam & Excursion > Hardly over taxed.

T&P light USRA Class H2  2-8-2  # 805 with only 6 cars in her local train is hardly taxed by the small amount of tonnage but still manages to smoke it up with the kind help of the fireman.  In just a few years her looks would be drastically changed after the Texas & Pacific locomotive rebuilding program of 1938-1940.  She and her 10 sisters would get new light weight rods, box pok main driver, cross counter balancing,   a second air pump, pump shields, elesco feedwater heater and a larger tender.  All these improvements greatly increased their cruising speed so much that during WWII they handled passenger train 2nd sections and troop trains with mile a minute speed.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/22/15 16:43 by tomstp.

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What a facelift she had!
Great action shot.
Bob

Tom, in the first image, does she have a six wheel tank?

Bob Callahan
Monticello, IN

Bob: no.  Here is what they looked like, just as they came from the war department in 1918.  Look at tender rivet pattern, it still has the slope sheet in it (note the rear of slope sheet sticking up above the oil bunker).  The builder just left off the grates, put a burner and firebrick and pan in it and dropped a oil  tank in the tender and sent em out.  Whoops, just discovered you can't see the rivets in this shot but, take my word, they were there.  The engines wound up with several different tenders as time went on.  The first at rebuild was 12,000 gallons, later, they got 14,000 and 15,000 gallon tenders.  Many of these engnes outlived the 2-10-4's.in service.

I am also attaching a photo of the 810 waiting for her rebuild in Marshall Tx.  Looks a little skagly doesn't she!



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Hard to beat USRA design for good looks.   Except for the 0-6-0s.

tomstp Wrote:
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> I am also attaching a photo of the 810 waiting for
> her rebuild in Marshall Tx.  Looks a little
> skagly doesn't she!

Yeah, but there are better days ahead for her.  Like Don said, it's tough to beat the good looks of a USRA engine.  Besides, she's a T&P engine and she's alright for all that!

Bob Callahan
Monticello, IN



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Thanks for posting yet another example of T&Ps fine steam power! Here's another pre-rebuild photo of T&P 800, courtesy of Otto Perry.
OP-16278
T&P locomotive, engine number 800, engine type 2-8-2
Texas & Pacific locomotive, engine number 800, engine type 2-8-2
Perry, Otto, 1894-1970
Three-quarter view of right side of engine, from front end. Photographed: Dallas, Tex., July 25, 1936
Title from catalog prepared by Western History Department, Denver Public Library.; R700016278 

Jack Bejna
Los Angeles, CA

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Yes I have that same picture, made in Dallas Tx just off main street downtown.
 

This is the original T&P allignment,which ran straight up Pacific St.in downtown Dallas. B\y the 1930s, it was used mainly to serv ea group of implement dealees in the West End.