Nostalgia & History > A couple of different nose's at Bayshore Yard

Two different technologies meet nose to nose at Bayshore Yard and we know who will win.

Robert Morris Photography



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/28/17 10:06 by photobob.

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Ah!  Kraus Maffai and EMD stare down!  The KM's didn't last very long!  Rio Grande only kept their 3 for about 3 years before selling them to the SP.  IIRC, a KM became a camera car for the SP later on.

Cheers, Jim Fitch

Great photo!  And note that even those the medallion had been removed from the nose of the 356, someone carried the paint across with the orange paint.  Looks sorta out of place, but much better than the nose scar of the removed medallion, as I've seen before!

Lee Hower - Sacramento

mcfflyer Wrote:
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> . . . note that even those the medallion had been removed from the nose of the 356, someone carried the paint across with the
> orange paint.  Looks sorta out of place, but much better than the nose scar of the removed medallion, as I've seen before!

Isn't 356 a T&NO (or SSW?) unit, and so has no Sunset emblem?

CPR_4000 Wrote:
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> mcfflyer Wrote:
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> > . . . note that even those the medallion had
> been removed from the nose of the 356, someone
> carried the paint across with the
> > orange paint.  Looks sorta out of place, but
> much better than the nose scar of the removed
> medallion, as I've seen before!
>
> Isn't 356 a T&NO (or SSW?) unit, and so has no
> Sunset emblem?

Yes, the 356 is a T&NO unit, part of the Southern Pacific "Golden Empire".  All cab units, including T&NO Fs and PAs carried a SP Sunset emblem on the nose door.  When the SP shifted from Black Widow to the gray and scarlet, the nose emblems started disappearing from every cab unit.

That would be the one being restored. It was in the second batch, a hood unit, not a bier wagen.

SPDRGWfan Wrote:
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> Ah!  Kraus Maffai and EMD stare down!  The KM's
> didn't last very long!  Rio Grande only kept
> their 3 for about 3 years before selling them to
> the SP.  IIRC, a KM became a camera car for the
> SP later on.
>
> Cheers, Jim Fitch

http://sp9010.ncry.org

Dave

 

TNO 356 still had it here - 1957

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/318494/

Mark