Nostalgia & History > Roseville F's

1.SP 6235 March 4, 1950.
2.SP 6321 June 3, 1968.
3.SP 6375 July 10, 1969.

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Quite impressive! What's the guy pushing in the third photo? Looks like some jugs of something...

Water jugs, for drinking.

In #3 I see no numberboards in two of the A units...were they brand new and not installed yet or what?

DTrainshooter Wrote:

> In #3 I see no numberboards in two of the A
> units...were they brand new and not installed yet
> or what?

SP 6235 was a few months old in March 1950. At that time, SP was still using the number boxes to display the train number rather than the engine number (which was painted on between the headlights). The boxes had slots into which individual numerals were slid to display the train number, and units like these that were sitting in a terminal not assigned to a train would have nothing displayed.

Except for the peninsula commutes, SP discontinued the practice of displaying the train number in 1967, so photos 2 and 3 taken after that date show units with the engine number displayed in the number boxes.

He pushing moon shine for the crew

Someone stole the medallion :-(

Water from the sand rack, mmmmmm.......tasty.