Issue No. 27 Feature Extension
Western
Pacific Steel Caboose #452
Additional images of Western Pacific steel caboose 452 to supplement story in Issue 27 of The Headlight by Mike Mucklin. Click on thumbnails for a larger image (images open in new window).
|
| |
|
|
WP
452 passing
through Livermore, California in 1980 showing
all of the original experimental power supply equipment.
- Dan Furtado
|
|
Color version of lead shot on page 4.
- Rich Forst
|
|
| |
|
|
In
her original as-delivered configuration and paint scheme, WP 452 is
looking a little worn in this shot from November 1978 (location unknown)
- Robert Rathbun, WPRRHS collection
|
|
Color version of shot on page 5.
- Robert Rathbun, WPRRHS collection
|
|
| |
|
|
Shortly after entering service, the 452 was used all over the system, including this westbound in Portola, CA.
- John Ryczkowski
|
|
Date/location unknown.
- John Ryczkowski
|
|
| |
|
|
Date unknown, Keddie, CA
- Thom Anderson
|
|
|
[NOTE ON BELOW IMAGES:]
Recruited by D. L. (Dave) Johnston, who ran many of the projects at
the Sacramento Car Shops, John Ryczkowski was asked to photograph the
details of the 452 for a report to be submitted to San Francisco. All
of the following images are from Ski and taken in March of 1980, just
before the 452 was released into service. |
| |
|
|
You can still smell the fresh paint in this shot of the 452 right outside the Jeffrey Shops in Sacramento. John was asked by the WP to shoot the car for them in March of 1980, just before she went into service.
- John Ryczkowski
|
|
Clean and shiny in the warm spring sun, the 452 in a side view just before going into service in March of 1980.
- John Ryczkowski
|
|
|
|
|
|
Another shot of the 452 right outside the Jeffrey Shops in Sacramento in March of 1980, just before she went into service.
- John Ryczkowski
|
|
Exterior of the A end shows the shortened end ladder, the conductor's desk window and the fuel oil filler where the other window was plated over with 10 gauge steel side sheet material.
- John Ryczkowski
|
|
| |
|
|
Similar to the 444, 450 and the 455, which were all shopped and painted individually prior to the 452 rebuild, a big "WP" was stenciled on each side opposite the WP feather medallion.
- John Ryczkowski
|
|
A 44 X 40" Western Pacific Feather River Route medallion was applied to each side as shown on the A end of the 452.
- John Ryczkowski
|
|
|
|
|
|
The gear driven Safety Electrical Equipment Corp. generator was the first and only generator of this type used on the WP. The length of the gear housing made it susceptible to damage from all-too-common wayside boulders on the tight curves in the Feather River Canyon.
- John Ryczkowski
|
|
The 60 X 14" sanitary water supply tank provided fresh water for the sink below. The water fill was located below the floor.
- John Ryczkowski
|
|
| |
|
|
UP style spare knuckle holders were located below the bay, type F on the left, type E on the right.
- John Ryczkowski
|
|
|
