Steam & Excursion > Silenced Steamers (2 SOO, 1 WP) but where?

Here are 3 tired warriors ... where or when?

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Looks like the Soo Mike has a booster? First time I can remember seeing a booster on a fabricated trailing truck.

WP 334 at W. Oakland, CA. Now resides at Western Railroad Museum, Rio Vista, Solano County, California. The location data for the museum in memory of Addison Laflin, who always so described the museum in his writings for what was then Bay Area Electric Railway Museum.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/14/18 08:08 by utwazoo.

I don't think that's a booster line, looks more like some kind of Feedwater heater line. Great photos, even if they are dead engines. Would be a help to modelers on how to properly weather a steam locomotive.

Frisco1522 Wrote:
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> I don't think that's a booster line, looks more
> like some kind of Feedwater heater line.

I don't see evidence of a feedwater heater, but there is a big, fat (insulated?) line running to the check valve. Could it be an exhaust steam injector, sort of like the Rutland Mountains had?

I think that's it: Soo 1003 has it, too: http://78.media.tumblr.com/818c3f6244838b50113a344f032076fa/tumblr_msw6apGZqN1s4agmuo1_1280.jpg



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/14/18 09:52 by CPR_4000.

Yes. The 1002 has an Elesco Exhaust Steam Injector.

A nice device.

-LD

A guess on number 2 from the hills in the background: at Houghton, Michigan. Nice little engine, as was the case for so much Soo Line steam.

MC
Muskegon, Michigan



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/14/18 17:16 by ironmtn.

Photo # 1 looks like the same location as another photo I've seen of #459 at Gladstone, Michigan. I think I saw it there as well, when I was a kid. I might have a photo of it too, buried in my dad's stuff.

Craig Hanson
Vay, Idaho

utwazoo wrote:

> The location data for the museum in memory of Addison Laflin, who always so described the museum in his writings for what was then Bay Area Electric Railway Museum.

Could the above sentence be rewritten so that it is understandable?