Nostalgia & History > WP 4-8-2 #173 w/passenger train ... need some help with info

What you see and the following is only info I have (from www.wplives.com):  Built 1924, last used 2/1950, vacated 6/1952;  Purchased 1936 from Florida East Coast; Sold for scrap to Luria Brothers; Scrapped by Purdy Company, San Francisco, California

Seems like location will be easy for someone to ID. 

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Portola, Callifornia after a crew change eastbound. Most likely the Exposition Flyer.

Guy Dunscomb slide, August 1949, eastbound at Portola, CA.  Appeared as the second slide in Tom Gildersleeve's duplicate slide set #253 "Western Pacific Steam and Early Diesels."  Used as the cover shot on Catenary Video Productions' "Western Pacific: The First 50 Years."

http://www.catenaryvideo.com/western-pacific.html

Thank you both!! Have no idea where I got it .... probably picked it up in 'trade room' at one of the WGRF's

If the photo is from August of 1949, then the train depicted is certainly #2, the short-lived Royal Gorge. At that time it carried a through Kansas City sleeper, as well as Salt Lake-Oakland Diner Lounge and 8-5 Clover Series Pullman. It was due out of portola at 5:45 AM and will change the engine crew at Gerlach, Nevada and train crew at Winnemucca. By 1950, the train had degenerated in to a 2 car baggage and coach affair, to be finally incarnated into the tri-weekly RDC2 Zepherette.  .