NNG - S.P. #2472 Returns to Service - May 16 & 17, 1991

Hi, All -

With yet another S.P. engine currently being rebuilt - narrow gauge, no less - I thought that a few photos of the resurrection of one of #18's standard gauge sisters might be appropriate.  #2472 had limped from Hunter's Point on San Francisco Bay to Railfest '91 in Sacramento with some of her paint still wet and her valves badly out-of-time.* On Friday, May 16 Bill Stetler came over from Roaring Camp to give the GGRM guys a hand, and #2472 was run south along the levee about 1/2 a mile where she could be worked on and test-run with minimal interference.  I got there too late to get photos of the actual timing process, but did get several shots of the subsequent test runs:

Don Micheletti(?), Bill Stetler and John Manley walk alongside as #2472 chuffs evenly southward, while Ron Sloan(?) catches a ride on the tender. IIRC John Teshara was firing and Neal Vodden running the engine -


Another shot of Don(?) and Bill with their glamorous charge -


#2472 and an open-platform observation posed against the Sacramento Skyline -


Another test run along the Sacramento River, this time captured in color:


A Baldwin product of the early nineteen-twenties, #2472 has classic - and classy - lines similar to a K-36; she's just a LOT bigger -


- Russ

* But not as out-of-square as #487 the last time I saw heard her run, and nowhere near as out-of-square as #484 when Michael Ripley, Roger Hogan and I watched her stall just east of Lobato on 09/29/09 (see [ngdiscussion.net] et seq).



Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 05/17/2016 07:23PM by Russo Loco.