Nostalgia & History > Santa Fe Pasadena Station Late 1940's

A friend of mine at work let me borrow these photos and scan them. Unknown who
the photographer was. However, these are to good not to share. Looks like these
were taken around the 1940's. Picture 1 is marked on back as "Super Chief".

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Wow, neat photo of the 3751 before it got upgraded.

Love number one with no gates or lights at what looks like Pasadena station. That power pole is amazingly close to the tracks!
JB

Wow, neat stuff.

The same view today would be looking at a wall of apartment complexes/parking structures surrounding either side of the Gold Line, with the Santa Fe station walled up inside.

3rdswitch Wrote:
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> Love number one with no gates or lights at what
> looks like Pasadena station. That power pole is
> amazingly close to the tracks!
> JB


Yes that's the station alright & that's Del Mar BL being crossed by the train.

Great stuff, but I'm guessing pre-war, maybe 1940-41.
90mac

Those first shots of the SANTA FE Northerns are great. Big, big engines, but why in the world did they put such tiny tenders on the first batches of engines?? It seems they soon figured a big boiler needs a big tender, as seen in the second photo.

The first shot of E3 11 shows the cab-top number indicator added in mid-to-late 1942, and the B-unit has the as-delivered curve-down stripe that gave way to a straight stripe ca.1946. It looks like the numberboards on the side of the nose have been painted over, which was also a post-war mod. An April 1946 photo of a somewhat cleaner 11L at Pasadena on p.434 of Iron horses of the Santa Fe Trail shows these same features, and also the protruding coupler doors (a retrofit - the doors were flush when the unit was new). 1946 is probably a decent guess on this one.

The timeline on the SBRHS site narrows the date of the 3751 shot to between 1938, when it got the 20,000 gallon "square" tender, and 1941, when it was rebuilt with 80-inch drivers and other betterments into the machine we recognize today.

http://www.sbrhs.org/timeline.html

Can't offer much on the 3773 and 3785 shots except to say that the engines were built in 1938 and 1941, respectively, and by 1950, 3773 had been reassigned to the Eastern Division and 3785 to the Pecos.

I agree with coach that the 24,500 gallon tender on 3785 looks better than the 20,000 tank behind 3773, but those "square" tenders weren't exactly dinky. Lengthwise, 3773's tender was every bit as long as the UP centipede tenders that trail the likes of 844 and 3985 - 47 feet (the centipedes were taller, though, and carried another ~4,000 gallons of water).

This picture would be pre-1940 when she was upgraded with cast frame and 80" drivers and one sandbox.

Photo 1 is very pleasing. What is the large building above the depot and baggage car?

hogantunnel Wrote:

> Photo 1 is very pleasing. What is the large
> building above the depot and baggage car?

That's the Hotel Green:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Green

There's an official website, but it doesn't seem to want to open for me:
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.castlegreen.com/&sa=U&ei=vNpSTrThDuXjiAKhpbjoDA&ved=0CBMQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNElkM1mY_h_YzIncQLc4RbnIs5LHg

HOTEL GREEN.

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