Nostalgia & History > #151 at Redwood City

Probably a Saturday, about 1959.

Ed

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Nice shot.
Is 151 disguised as 147?

Sweet!! Gotta love those SP Trainmasters!

Phil

Ah.....make that 147.

Ed

Well done Ed...love that M5 air horn that this class wore.

Tom

I wonder how many other commute(r) services carried RPO's? #147 appears to be one such train. I never knew SP commutes to carry baggage cars, and so presume this to be an RPO even though I can't see the mail catch arm. AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

Remember when most mail was surface. This train dropped a mail car every day in Redwood City. I'm not sure if any other Peninsula cities had mail cars dropped off and picked up, but lots of commuters had a mail truck waiting for them on the platform. Forgive the quality of the scan. When I first started scanning slides, storage space was critical (and you can see how small the files had to be). Now, with almost a terabyte of storage, a can scan much larger files. I also used far too much sharpening back then. Oh, well, live and learn.

Ed

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