Re: NPC Historic Accident *LINK*

The locomotive, (A Baldwin 8-18c, plan 4,identical to Eureka) No 9, was recovered rebuilt and returned to service as No 17. It was scrapped in 1900 after another wreck. It is believed that the frame was then used to build a new locomotive in the railroad's Sausalito shops.
No 9 had been built to haul the railroad presidents private car, and as such was highly decorated. Some reports say she had a Mahogany cab but the Baldwin builders card says Walnut cab. She had brass trim everywhere Baldwin could put it, with a nickel silver wrapper on the sand dome and cylinders. She was lake and gold, but had red drivers. She carried the RR president's initials, MLS on the cab panel, on an engraved nickel silver plate.
There are persistent rumors of a flatcar left nearby...
Randy Hees