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Nostalgia & History > GS 5 4458Date: 03/09/11 21:47 GS 5 4458 Author: fmaffei At Mission Bay RH SF 1951
 Date: 03/09/11 23:09 Re: GS 5 4458 Author: Notch16 Would I rather have the engine, or that cart? It's a tough call...roller bearings vs. those crazy wheels! :-)
Date: 03/10/11 09:12 Re: GS 5 4458 Author: Frisco1522 Doyle would have been happy to have the 4458.
Date: 03/10/11 13:05 Re: GS 5 4458 Author: huskerherb I believe there were plans to save one of the two SP GS-5s and place it in the California State RR Museum in Sacramento. The SP #4294 Cab Forward was apparently deemed to be more historically significant, so it was saved while the GSs were unfortunately scrapped. What might have been...
Date: 03/10/11 20:53 Re: GS 5 4458 Author: davew833 California State Railroad Museum didn't open 'til 1976, but that doesn't mean they couldn't have stuck it in a park in Sacto in the meantime. Too bad...
Date: 03/10/11 21:13 Re: GS 5 4458 Author: railstiesballast The 4294 was displayed in a park-like setting at the Sacramento depot for all the years from its donation until the museum was built.
Now it is 2011: what surplus locomotive(s) are sitting in dead lines that people in 2031 will wish had been preserved? Date: 03/11/11 06:54 Re: GS 5 4458 Author: BCHellman I wish they saved 4324 in the background.
Date: 03/11/11 08:29 Re: GS 5 4458 Author: huskerherb davew833 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > California State Railroad Museum didn't open 'til > 1976, but that doesn't mean they couldn't have > stuck it in a park in Sacto in the meantime. Too > bad... CSRM opened in 1981. |