| AT&SF 4-6-0 2438 at Claremont, California on an unknown day in December 1976, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This was a narrow gauge outside frame locomotive, not likely originally AT&SF. The web site steamlocomotive.com places this locomotive in Keizer Station Mall, Salem, OR, and indicated it was originally Ferrocarril Coahuila-Zacatecas No. 6, built by Baldwin in May 1904 (c/n 24252) as a Pacific-type (4-6-2). In 1965 it was sold to Early West Railways, Inc. at La Verne, CA, for a railroad theme park which did not succeed. This locomotive was moved to a railroad theme restaurant (the location pictured here) in Claremont, which did not succeed. In 1981 it was donated to the City of Claremont, CA, who moved it to College Park, until the asbestos scare, when the city put it up for sale. It passed through a couple of owners (one of whom displayed it in Paris, CA) before ending up in Salem, Oregon. |