El Gobernador
2004-04-09 18:16:41.071638+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Tomorrow we're leaving for a week on a road trip. We plan to start by heading south, probably down I-5, then cutting over towards Bakersfield and up over Tehachapi Pass. I'd like to see the Tehachapi loop, and in looking for background I discovered that California had an "El Gobernador" long before our current governor: It was a 4-10-0 locomotive built in 1884 to haul loads over the Tehachapi route. There's a drawing and a picture linked to from a talk about the Southern Pacific Railway shops in Sacramento, but except for its size it's somewhat unremarkable.
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