San Jose is where I live now. It’s wonderful of seeing Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives operating around here before I was born when the SP was still in business.
I remember those storage Gasometers everywhere growing up then one day they were all gone. not sure when they disappeared but guessing the 80s-90s.. great video. !
There were a HUGE amount of very rich, influential Bay Area stockholders who rode the Espee. That's why the Coast Daylight continued to operate a parlor car until Amtrak, and the San Francisco-SJC-Monterey "Del Monte" always operated with an extra-fare lounge car, staffed by porter E. Eddie Edwards in later years. I got to ride it several times en route to Fort Ord, then a flag stop.
@10:37 As locomotives consume water, air bubbles build up in the water chamber. When the standpipe is opened, water floods in at great pressure, which forces pockets of air bubbles to the bottom of the chamber. Flooding the tender displaces any remaining air bubbles, forcing them up and out
The 2467 resides at CSRM Sacramento, Ca not the 4475. The P-8 Pacific 2472 is stored by the Golden Gate Railroad Museum in Schellville, Ca and P-10 2479 is under restoration at Niles Canyon Railroad Sunol, Ca. These are the only three surviving S.P. Pacific type 4-6-2s.
Interesting to see a single bi-level car as a commute train. UK operating would have a conductor aboard a vehicle with the ability to actuate the brakes in an emergency.
I currently work as a radio tech under Caltrain out of Diridon (old Cahill depot) so my work takes me to all of the signal houses between CP's Lick and 4th St. Aside from footage shown around Diridon, I only recognize the old round house. Supposedly it was completely dismantled brick by brick years after the '89 quake with plans to rebuild it in History Park but I doubt now that'll ever happen. I'm also wondering whatever happened to all of those bricks, windows, doors, etc.? Still languishing in a warehouse on the taxpayer's dime or long gotten rid of?
San Jose is where I live now. It’s wonderful of seeing Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives operating around here before I was born when the SP was still in business.
I remember those storage Gasometers everywhere growing up then one day they were all gone. not sure when they disappeared but guessing the 80s-90s.. great video. !
There were a HUGE amount of very rich, influential Bay Area stockholders who rode the Espee. That's why the Coast Daylight continued to operate a parlor car until Amtrak, and the San Francisco-SJC-Monterey "Del Monte" always operated with an extra-fare lounge car, staffed by porter E. Eddie Edwards in later years. I got to ride it several times en route to Fort Ord, then a flag stop.
@10:37 As locomotives consume water, air bubbles build up in the water chamber.
When the standpipe is opened, water floods in at great pressure, which forces pockets of air bubbles to the bottom of the chamber.
Flooding the tender displaces any remaining air bubbles, forcing them up and out
Before the Stadler EMUs, before the Mp36phs, hell, even before the F40phs... what a time!
Fascinating!
Interesting video. Some really interesting stuff in the background as well.
The 2467 resides at CSRM Sacramento, Ca not the 4475. The P-8 Pacific 2472 is stored by the Golden Gate Railroad Museum in Schellville, Ca and P-10 2479 is under restoration at Niles Canyon Railroad Sunol, Ca. These are the only three surviving S.P. Pacific type 4-6-2s.
Yuppers and I am crew and have run the 2472, I was also involved in the move when she left Niles canyon and went to her current location
What??? No way, thanks for sharing!!!!!
Thanks
Regarding: Bicycles were used to move around the yard.
Interesting to see a single bi-level car as a commute train. UK operating would have a conductor aboard a vehicle with the ability to actuate the brakes in an emergency.
One GS7 survived. Cotten Belt 819
She never went to SP. 819 was always just an L-1
the old sp headquarters building has had its interior gutted and the big sp logo on the floor totaly gone .
I currently work as a radio tech under Caltrain out of Diridon (old Cahill depot) so my work takes me to all of the signal houses between CP's Lick and 4th St. Aside from footage shown around Diridon, I only recognize the old round house. Supposedly it was completely dismantled brick by brick years after the '89 quake with plans to rebuild it in History Park but I doubt now that'll ever happen. I'm also wondering whatever happened to all of those bricks, windows, doors, etc.? Still languishing in a warehouse on the taxpayer's dime or long gotten rid of?
The roundhouse components have been donated by Santa Clara County to the Pacific Locomotive Association who plans to rebuild the structure at Niles.
@@kenmiddlebrook4704 Thank you!