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Steam & Excursion > There Is Plenty Of Steam Action By These Cattle Pens This Day!Date: 04/18/21 03:33 There Is Plenty Of Steam Action By These Cattle Pens This Day! Author: LoggerHogger Once the terminus for the Placerville & Sacramento Railroad, Latrobe, California was not much more than a siding on the Southern Pacific by the 1950's when California railfan, Stan Snook captured this fine image.
Stan was on hand to catch SP #2312 double heading with SP #2788 past the cattle pens at Latrobe this warm summer day. While this was likely an excursion, it certainly must have been the most action Latrobe had seen for quite some time. Martin Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 04/18/21 03:47 by LoggerHogger.  Date: 04/18/21 11:35 Re: There Is Plenty Of Steam Action By These Cattle Pens This Day Author: callum_out That's just West of the road crossing at Latrobe, great shot, you don't see much of the Placerville in steam.
Out Date: 04/18/21 12:40 Re: There Is Plenty Of Steam Action By These Cattle Pens This Day Author: Evan_Werkema This was Cal-Nevada's "Hangtown Express" excursion of November 4, 1951. Not exactly summer, but Sacramento reported a high of 75 that day. Flyer below courtesy the Western Railway Museum Archives. Photos on the CP< part of the trip are here:
https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,4013428 https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,2715494 https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4889614,4889921#4889921    Date: 04/18/21 18:17 Re: There Is Plenty Of Steam Action By These Cattle Pens This Day Author: KMiddlebrook Hope the riders packed a lunch. The only scheduled "break" was from 4:00 to 5:00pm in Placerville on the return trip...IF they were able to stick to the schedule.
Date: 04/18/21 19:09 Re: There Is Plenty Of Steam Action By These Cattle Pens This Day Author: Evan_Werkema KMiddlebrook Wrote:
> Hope the riders packed a lunch. They may also have purchased lunch in the All-Day Lunch car mentioned in the flyer. Date: 04/19/21 08:59 Re: There Is Plenty Of Steam Action By These Cattle Pens This Day Author: callum_out Not to mention that 2:20 from Sacramento to Placerville was a bit ambitious in itself.
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