Nostalgia & History > mundo: Roster shots at Colton, CA, November 11, 1949

A few of the things Ed Von Nordeck found at Colton, California 69 years ago:

1. C5 class 2-8-0 #2648 with a whaleback tender. Diebert & Strapac's Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Compendium shows this engine leased to SP de Mexico just three months later and sold to Ferrocarril del Pacifico in 1951.

2. Wooden caboose 891. The fine print on the side identifies it as a class C-30-1 built in 1924.

3. Well worn AC-7 class 4165 was the helper on an westbound train (facing due east) in front of the Colton depot.

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4-6. Coupled to that well-worn AC was shiny, nearly new class C-30-5 bay window caboose #1309 built in May 1949. That's SP's Colton depot in the left background of #4.

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7. ...and now for something completely different. With SP 4165 and 1309 standing by in the background, here comes Union Pacific H15-44 D.S.1329 with what I suspect is a transfer job, though I'd be interested to know why it's coming off the Pacific Electric line. Regardless of what it's doing there, it sure is a fine-looking road switcher with all those Raymond Loewy "refinements" that FM all too quickly discarded in subsequent H16-44 production. Interesting position for the flag holders as well, on the handrails! Thanks Ed for taking the time and film to document a dreaded diesel at a time when the writing was already on the wall for steam.

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Great to see some of my era type railroading. Dirty steam, 40' cars with roofwalks, markers on the caboose and great atmosphere. Thank you and keep posting.

Some very good shots by a very young teenaged Ed so many years ago. Thanks to Ed for preserving these fine images and for Evan for taking the time to post them for all to enjoy.

What does mundo mean? I didn't take Spanish in HS.

Cheers, Jim

World.

And a great look back at the trains in Colton in 1949, Ed and Evan.

Rich

SPDRGWfan Wrote:
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> What does mundo mean? I didn't take Spanish in
> HS.
>
> Cheers, Jim



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/24/18 07:14 by PasadenaSub.

SPDRGWfan Wrote:
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> What does mundo mean? I didn't take Spanish in
> HS.
>
> Cheers, Jim

Ed von Nordeck's first name is actually Edmund. So mundo is kind of short for Edmund.

Thanks for posting such great, crisp pictures. Photo #3 is especially interesting since I include the chalk marks on some of my modeling.

Another round of excellent pictures by Ed.
Thanks.
Gary

Nice stuff.  I like the SP bay window pre-orange ends, and the trucks under the box cars in the background of Photo 5.  (Allied?)
SR

Evan_Werkema Wrote:
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> 7. ...and now for something completely different.
> With SP 4165 and 1309 standing by in the
> background, here comes Union Pacific H15-44
> D.S.1329 with what I suspect is a transfer job,
> though I'd be interested to know why it's coming
> off the Pacific Electric line.

The UP transfer was from the PE, still a separate operation from the SP in '49.

In Spanish Mundo is World.

When I operates rail tours and special trains in Mexico, the crews instead of calling me Ed or Edmund, would just say Mundo.

A few old timers, call me Eddie which was my school name and until I entered the Military. So to Stan Kistler, Bob Drenk and many now deceased, I am Eddie.

I think Stan is still "with us", as they say.  But maybe I didn't get the memo?  He lives up my way and I ran into him not all that long ago.
SR

Yes Stan is still with us as is Bob Drenk. I did not say otherwise.

Nice job spotting those unique boxcar trucks! High speed service cars??