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Nostalgia & History > Tom Hallendorf Movies, SP Commutes, Oroville Dam Railroad, 1965Date: 02/15/18 19:16 Tom Hallendorf Movies, SP Commutes, Oroville Dam Railroad, 1965 Author: FiveChime In this segment we see a little old SF Muni, Evening rush hour through Red Wood City
and a brief look at the Oroville Dam Construction Railway. End with first shots of renumbered locomotives which started in June, 1965. Movies by Tom Hallendorf posted by permission of Tom Hallendorf Regards, Jim Evans You must be a registered subscriber to watch videos. Join Today! Date: 02/15/18 19:45 Re: Tom Hallendorf Movies, SP Commutes, Oroville Dam Railroad, 19 Author: tehachapifan More great stuff! Please pass along appreciation to Mr. Hallendorf for allowing these to be posted! This is some of the best and most comprehensive footage of SP ops in the Bay Area I've ever seen. Absolute treasures!
Date: 02/15/18 20:08 Re: Tom Hallendorf Movies, SP Commutes, Oroville Dam Railroad, 19 Author: TS735 Wow! What a fantastic film of the SP commutes and holy cow, I can’t believe how fast those Oro Dam trains were running. I didn’t expect that. Thank you for sharing this, it is a real treasure.
Ryan Barber Stockton, CA Date: 02/15/18 20:25 Re: Tom Hallendorf Movies, SP Commutes, Oroville Dam Railroad, 19 Author: FiveChime Perhaps too fast! As I recall, there was a major accident on the Oro Dam Railroad involving trainman's death.
Regards, Jim Evans Date: 02/15/18 22:20 Re: Tom Hallendorf Movies, SP Commutes, Oroville Dam Railroad, 19 Author: WarrenWeiss Thank you once again, Jim.
Warren Date: 02/16/18 05:34 Re: Tom Hallendorf Movies, SP Commutes, Oroville Dam Railroad, 19 Author: RNP47 Jim
Thanks to you and to Mr. Hallendorf for posting this fascinating series. What I found most interesting in this clip was the hopper car unloading machine. The thought that came to mind is this... I could not tell from the short clip how the cars get uncoupled before they get rotated. Would anyone know how that was done? Thanks in advance. Bob Phelps Date: 02/16/18 06:59 Re: Tom Hallendorf Movies, SP Commutes, Oroville Dam Railroad, 19 Author: train1275 Well worth watching !!
Those were rotary dump cars and the dumper supposedly could handle 10,000 tons / hour. I think were 170 cars in the fleet for this project. I've heard the dumper and other equipment went to Australia after Oroville was finished. Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/16/18 07:06 by train1275. Date: 02/16/18 08:37 Re: Tom Hallendorf Movies, SP Commutes, Oroville Dam Railroad, 19 Author: czuleget Bob the train cars were equipped with Rotary couplers no need to break up the train. Coal trains on most RR had the same equipment.
Date: 02/17/18 08:57 Re: Tom Hallendorf Movies, SP Commutes, Oroville Dam Railroad, 19 Author: drumwrencher Thanks, Jim. Great look back. And, did anyone catch the 33c/38c gasoline at the station in SF? Now, those were the days!
Walter Date: 02/17/18 13:27 Re: Tom Hallendorf Movies, SP Commutes, Oroville Dam Railroad, 19 Author: ExSPCondr One more thing to note, one of the Train Masters is renumbered with a shiny new 3035, and there is a U-25B in the picture with a 6700 number, which means this was taken during the SP's 1965 renumbering.
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