the Prosperity Special was a develop made upwards alone 24 Baldwin locomotives, job of an fellowship of 50, left on May 27, 1922. They "headed westward out of the Baldwin Locomotive Plant to East St. Louis, took the Cotton Belt Line across Texas as well as was switched to SP tracks inwards El Paso.
Thousands of spectators lined the tracks to run into an almost one-half mile long develop made upwards alone of novel locomotives cross the dry soil saltation for California. H5N1 large sign was erected on the Pb locomotive that read, ‘The Prosperity Special’.
The exceptional arrived at Taylor Yard inwards Los Angeles inwards early on June. Half of the locomotives would remain hither as well as run heavy freights over Beaumont Hill as well as Tehachapi Pass. The balance of the locos went to Sacramento for duty over the Sierra Nevadas, the develop stopped to stimulate got on H2O earlier the descent into Bakersfield as well as the trip upwards the valley to their novel habitation inwards Sacramento.
H5N1 dyad of years agone I posted this movie of the completed fifty at Eddystone, Pennsylvania:
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Thanks Steve!
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