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SP 1215

0-6-0 Switcher

 


Southern Pacific 1215 steam switcher
Class: S-10 Type: 0-6-0 Builder #: 39832
Built: Baldwin Locomotive Works - May 1913
Weight: 154,600 lbs. Boiler Pressure: 190 psi
Tractive Effort: 29,720 lbs.


On July 9, 2024 the FRRS Historical/Archive Department got this email from Darryl Huffman about SP 1215 which was part of our collection from 1996 to 2007.

I was reading an issue from the late 1990s about SP 1215.
In that article, the author did not know where the locomotive was transferred from track to trailer for movement.
In Armona, California, the tracks next to Federal Fruit Distributors ended on the east side of 14th Avenue.
The locomotive was transferred at this point.
The Hanford Sentinel had a front page photo of the locomotive being prepared for the transfer.
I was 14 at the time and was sitting straddling the smokebox in front of the stack and behind the headlight when that photo was taken.
The clipping from the newspaper was lost over the years.
I know this information is trivial but may help to fill in a blank spot.
When 1215 was at Burris Park, I played on it many times.
On the attached map, 14th Avenue was called Lake Street.
My crude sketch in red is the dead end siding used for the transfer.




The last reported sighting of SP 1215 was at Kelly Park in San Jose, CA.
More information about it HERE!


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SP 1215
Photo by Paul Finnegan 5/27/2006

Links to Train Sheet articles about SP 1215:
Train Sheet #141, Page 9:  SP 1215 Leaves for San Jose
Train Sheet #092, Page 6:  Steam Gauge SP 1215 Jul/Aug 1998
Train Sheet #085, Page 2:  The Steam Gauge May/Jun 1997
Train Sheet #084, Page 7:  The Steam Gauge Mar/Apr 1997
Train Sheet #081, Page 5:  SP Steam Switchers
Train Sheet #081, Page 5:  You Can't Get Here from There... The Great Locomotive Move
Train Sheet #081, Page 12:  You Can't Get Here from There... The Great Locomotive Move Photos