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Photographer: Andrew Ruppenstein
Taken: February 8, 2009
Caption: Southern Pacific Steam Locomotive 1258
Additional Description: According to the Martinez Historical Society, "Southern Pacific steam locomotive number 1258 was one of 38 SP built S-12 switch engines. It was one of 6 built in SP's Los Angles shop's as LA Shop job # 8. Weighing nearly 80 tons, and operating at 200 psi steam pressure the 1258 and her sisters were the state of the art of steam efficiency at their time of conception in 1921. She spent most of her life working in the northern California area. Southern Pacific retired all of it's steam power by 1956, and the 1258 sat on the deadline track at Oakland yard waiting for the scrappers torch, when in 1959 she was donated to the City of Martinez as a museum piece...."
Submitted: February 10, 2009, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p52676
File Size: 0.444 Megabytes

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