We just found a third historic photo of our backyard caboose,
WP668. It was in a magazine we purchased last weekend at the
Western Pacific Railroad Museum in
Portola, California. I am writing to the owners of these photos to get permission
to reprint them. Here are the photos we have of WP668 from the past:
- photo from July 1973 on p. 8: “The Self-Propelled
Era on the Sacramento Northern” by Tom Irion, “Western Pacific
Headlight” Issue #29, Spring 2006, Publisher: Feather River Rail
Society and WPRRHS. The caption is: “WP’s wooden bay-window cabs,
long bumped from mainline service, continued to earn their keep on
the rear of SN trains well into the 1970s. Number 668 was assigned
to the Woodland branch melon extra on July 16, 1973. – Dave
Stanley photo” - photo from September 1974 on p. 122: Western Pacific Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment by Jim Eager, 2001
(Publisher: Morning Sun Books; ISBN-10: 158248063X, ISBN-13: 978-1582480633) The caption is: “WP 668 NE series 644-668 – Converted in October 1943 and still two years away from retirement, the 668 was at Sacramento in September 1974. That is the axle-drive for the generator silhouetted inboard the right hand truck. (Peter Arnold)”
Western Pacific #668 location/Date/Photographer unknown. S. Roger Kirkpatrick collection, listed on
Central California Rails Caboose Index – W
Here is WP668 (in our backyard) in San Jose, California:
Image Copyright 2007 by Katy Dickinson
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