Still researching the SP 745 mystery of July 8 1921. Have additional questions... In July 1921, a manifest westbound thru Paisano Pass, where would the crew...
... -- Were not heavy repairs to steam locomotives on TNO in Texas performed in Houston...? I know San Antonio had shops, but believe that Houston SP Hardy...
Don't know, that why asking! We know 745 spent a good deal of time in shops there over her life. When reconstructing 745, found a few pieces on her which were...
... In the SP system, there were a few General Shops (which could do anything, right up to building steam locomotives). On Pacific Lines, these were at...
... and asking, if this were the criterion, why was Algiers not a General Shop? There were locomotives built at Sparks and Ogden, too, but they were not...
At the time I think that the intermediate crew change points on the El Paso Division, which ran east to Del Rio, were at Sanderson and Valentine. But chec k...
A.D. - Yes, the westbound crew would have boarded the loco at Sanderson and finished the run at Valentine. Most probably, the guys in the crew were residents...
A.T. Kott Thanks for the fascinating information. Do you know any more (I don't). In particular why Valentine roundhouse extant in 1926 was completely cut off...
A.T. What was the woman's name who left her ranch to Kirby Lumber Company. That's a little Kirby history I didn't know about. Gary Williams Beaumont...
Guys Thanks so much for the information. Engineer Bohlman and family lived in Sanderson. Supposedly Fireman Robinson did as well with his family, but some news...
Also Earthquake was August 1931 which zapped Valentine Ed Ernewein <tno745@...> wrote: Guys Thanks so much for the information. Engineer Bohlman and...
As it happened the Symposium didn't happen exactly according to plan. Things rarely do. Our chief nemesis in this endeavor was that ice storm that hit Commerce...
... news stories reported he lived in Marathon.... Ed - Sanderson was the town of preference for T&NO crews to live in. It was really a nice little town,...
Thanks again for all the information about the Sanderson-Valentine operations. A few more questions while I have y'all's attention: That stretch of track, in...
... don't). In ... cut off ... Sanderson ... connecting tracks. ... of San ... Ogden but ... division ... AD - I think that use of the Sanderson roundhouse for...
... division and what subdivision? ... the current grade or was it the same in 1921, and if different, what was the grade then. ... involving SP 745 stated...
Ms are units of 1000 lbs that SP used for train weights until the end of 1951. Changed then to conform with the practice of other railroads who used 2000 lb...
List, Does anyone have contact information, either phone or e-mail, for SP historian Arnold Menke? He used to live down in Bisbee, Arizona, but I've not talked...
thanks !!!!! So if the train is identified as as 745 Extra west 4400 ms, that would mean that the train was actually X745 west with 2200 tons weight of...
AD - I still think that the ruling gradient westbound from San Antonio to El Paso was/is between Sanderson and Del Rio. That line climbs from about 600' to...
Just to give you the exact information Extra west lead by Mk-5 # 745, on July 8, 1921, listed at 2881 ms. According to your information, that would indicate...
Actually the elevation of Del Rio is about 1000 feet, which would make the grade around 0.2%. Sometime back I calculated (from the topo maps) the average...
Format of ratings figures did not survive transmission in previous msg. Same information follows in a different format. Figures are shown in Ms, not tons. They...
thanks again So If I read this right THIS TIME!: an Mk-5 would be rated for 3500 ms ( 1750 tons) westbound, and, 3000 ms (1500 tons) eastbound in the area...
Ratings (train loads) include weight of caboose, exclude weight of motive power. Assessing weight depends on method used with track scales providing precise...
Figures are an improvement on those first sent but format are still imperfectly reproduced. ADMcL [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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