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Non - Monon But Of Interest => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: George Lortz on September 05, 2013, 10:10:20 am
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This photo is dated 1/25/48. No location given.
George L.
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Well George, sometimes we had our moments too. Sorry, no date or other information. / Ron
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It looks like South Hammond. I see they've started cribbing in the pit.
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Could be Mike, I just don't know. We had one of the #51's that were set out for a FLT roll into the pit cab end first at McDoel one evening. They put the wrecker on the turntable, picked the engine up, and turned the table till it lined up, then set the engine back down. No cribbing or anything, and it only took about thirty minutes. It puctured the fuel tank though, and they had a mess to clean up.
The hostler set the two units out from the north end, then cut the brakes out on the north unit and didn't cut them back in on the south end, which was the lead unit for the FLT. The brakes leaked off, and since the track in front of the yard office was downhill toward the table, they rolled away. The helper had earlier turned the table, so they just went in the pit.
I was working the yard job, and was in the yard office when Beener Stewart registered out on the FLT. He went out to get on the engines, then came back in and told the yardmaster "I can't take those engines". When the yardmaster asked him why, he said "because they're in the turntable pit".
??? / Ron
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The photo location is at the Los Angles passenger station. When the engineer parked the engines he changed the controlling cab from one end to the other but unfortunately forgot to set the brakes from the new controlling cab.
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George's picture of an AT&SF Warbonnet F3 that is hanging over a parapet wall at Los Angeles Union Passenger Station AKA "LAUPT".
I recall seeing that picture in either Railroad Magazine or Trains Magazine in 1948 along with many repeat printings from time to time.
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It's not South Hammond. The turntable there had a much shallower pit and was the "through girder" type. The girder would be visible on the turntable bridge. See attached.
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I was making my guess by the brick roundhouse in the background. You can't even see the turntable in the picture so I couldn't use that as a spotting feature.