Nevada-California-Oregon 9
Southern Pacific 9
SP (ex NCO) #9 on display at Laws Railroad Museum, Bishop California.
Type and origin
Power typeSteam
BuilderBaldwin Locomotive Works
Serial number34035
Model10-26 D 258
Build dateNovember 1909
Specifications
Configuration:
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 • Whyte4-6-0
 • UIC2′C
Gauge3 ft (914 mm)
Driver dia.44 in (1.118 m)
Loco weight88,000 pounds (40 t)
Boiler pressure180 lbf/in2 (1.24 MPa)
CylindersTwo, outside
Cylinder size16 in × 20 in (406 mm × 508 mm)
Performance figures
Tractive effort17,800 lbf (79.18 kN)
Career
OperatorsNevada–California–Oregon Railway
Southern Pacific Company
Numbers9
Retired1960
DispositionDisplay: Laws, California

Southern Pacific #9 is a 4-6-0 oil-fired narrow gauge steam locomotive, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1909.

It was originally built for the Nevada–California–Oregon Railway and was sold to Southern Pacific in the late 1920s. The engine worked the rest of its career on the SP narrow gauge, except a brief season in 1953 when the locomotive was briefly loaned to the Plaster City railroad operated by the United States Gypsum Company.[1] The locomotive, along with sisters #8 and #18, were nicknamed "The Desert Princess" for riding along the western and eastern deserts of Nevada and California.

In 1954, there was a plan to purchase a new narrow gauge diesel from GE as SP #1, to replace numbers #9, #8 and #18. Whilst #8 and #18 were sold off, #9 was kept on as a standby locomotive to support diesel locomotive #1 in case of a breakdown.

The engine and the two others, #8 and #18, survived into preservation. Southern Pacific #9 is now on display at the Laws Railroad Museum in Laws, California.

The engine was also used in the 1948 film 3 Godfathers, starring John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, and Harry Carey Jr.;[2] as well as cameoing the 1954 - 1957 TV western series Annie Oakley, starring Gail Davis.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Steinheimer, Richard (1963). Backwoods Railroads of The West. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing Co. p. 45.
  2. ↑ "3 Godfathers 1948". Moreobscuretrainmovies.movie.blog. 1 December 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  3. ↑ "Annie and the Brass Collar 1954". Moreobscuretrainmovies.movie.blog. 1 May 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
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