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Part 3, page 2: On the Job
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Updated: 9-29-22
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xxxOrder of page images: 092, 091, 093-094, 146, 095-096, 157, 097, 014-015, 098-099, 126, 145, 152-153, 179, 155-156, 158-159, 164, 168, 170, 173-175, 178, 180, 182
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date: 6-30-43
location:
photographer:
print: 4" x 4' b&W
obverse data:
reverse data:
"June 30, 1943"
comments:
date: 1944-46
location:
photographer:
print: 3.5" x 6" landscape b&w
obverse data:
[stamped] "SEPT 1960"
reverse data:
"One of the Last Steam Locomotives Built for Southern Pacific by Baldwin"
comments: close up of engineer
date: ca. early 1942
location:
photographer:
print: 5" x7" portrait b&w
obverse data:
"Howard Carey
reverse data:
"Eng Howard Carey Frm Leslie Gull,
comments:
date: ca. 1942
location:
photographer:
print: 5" x 6.25" portrait b&w
obverse data:
"Les Gull Irwin Boop"
reverse data:
Eng Irwin Boop Firmn Leslie Gull"
comments:
date: ca.early 1940's
location:
photographer:
print: 5" x 7" landscape b&w
obverse data:
reverse data:
""Howard Carey"
comments:
Photo appears to have been recorded at the same time of #094, above.
date: ca. early 1940's
location:
photographer:
print: 3.5" x 6" landscape b&w
obverse data:
[stamped] "SEPT 1960"
reverse data:
comments:
enlargement of engineer
date: ca.1945
location:
photographer:
print: 2.5" x 3.75" portrait b&w
obverse data:
reverse data:
comments:
date: 5-47
location:
photographer:
print: 3.25" x 4.5" portrait b&w
obverse data:
"May 1947 Chappelone"
reverse data:
comments:
date: circa late 1940's
location:
photographer:
print: 8" x 10" portrait b&w
obverse data:
reverse data:
comments:
Charles T. "Pop" Mathews?
date: circa 1947
location: likely Third & Townsend Depot
photographer:
print: 8" x 10" portrait b&w
obverse data:
reverse data:
comments:
Noon Daylight #96 apparently was Baumeister's regular run for at least the last decade prior to his retirement.
date: 9-10-49
location:
photographer:
print: 5" x 5.25" b&w
obverse data:
"Arthur Sauer"
reverse data:
"9-10-49"
description:
date: 9-10-49
location:
photographer:
print: 5" x %.25" landscape b&w
obverse data:
"2487 J. J. McKenna 9-10-49"
reverse data:
"Taken 9-10-49 Eng No 2487"
description:
date: ca. 1950?
location: Cahill St. Depot, San Jose
photographer:
print: 2.75" x4.5" Polaroid b&w
obverse data:
reverse data:
"Left to Right, Fireman Nesbit No 2, Engr. Old Man No 1, Switchmen C. Clark, Earl Isham, Ben Cook"
comments:
Locomotive #1221, which sported a unique paint / decoration combination along with an equally unique air horn (to the right of the smokestack), was the assigned Cahill St. (now Diridon) depot switch engine, or "goat", from the late 1920's to the early 1950's. It was donated in 1960 to the city of Deming, New Mexico, where it still resides. #1221 in 1984 - Wx4.org
In 1947, of 719 switchmen on the Coast Division, Isham had been #1 for at least eight years; Cook was #8 and Clark was #15. Clark retired in 1947. All three may have been pensioners at time of photo, which was shot on 1950 type Polaroid film.
NIC-02 (not in collection)
The photo at right, taken at the same time as #126 - but not part of the Kiesel Collection - mysteriously turned up in the collection of Mary Smalley Lamb of Hagerstown, IN. Ms. Lamb has always lived on her Indiana farm and has no apparent connection to any of these men.
In her own handwriting on the reverse side, she listed the men from left? as (no name) "Earl Isham, Ben Cook and Claude Clark", which does not match with #126, and says, "Do not know engineer [or Fireman Nesbit] all have passed, do not know if engineer is living."
collection of Mary Smalley Lamb of Hagerstown, IN
date:
location:
photographer:
print: 4.75" x 6.5" portrait b&W
obverse data:
reverse data:
"L. Christian Abe Sall"
comments:
Sall's occupation is unknown.
date: 1952
location:
photographer:
print: 4.5" x 7 portrait b&w
obverse data:
"Tom - Brazil - 1952"
reverse data:
"T Brazil 1952"
comments:
date: 8-3-52
location:
photographer:
print: 3.5" x 6.25" Polaroid b&w
obverse data:
reverse data:
"#162 8/3/52"
comments:
date: 6-1-54
location:
photographer:
print: 6" x 7.25" landscape b&w
obverse data:
"D. Wells, Sam Jordan Fred Lamphier 6-1-54"
reverse data:
comments:
Lamphier retired prior to 1957, so this may be his last run photo.
date: 6-2-54
location: Cahill St. Depot, San Jose
photographer:
print: 3.5' x 5.75" landscape color
obverse data:
" Engr. Ketcham- Fireman A. [illegible]. Blasdell [sic] - San Jose 8-2-54"
reverse data:
"San Jose Depot 6-2-54"; stamped: "Kodak Print April 1961"; payroll stamp: "B. A. Romano 9070".
comments:
Correct name of fireman: A. N. Blasdel
date: ca. 1956
location:
photographer:
print: approx. 3.5" x 5.5" portrait b&w
obverse data:
reverse data:
comments:
#4430 was the last steam locomotive to pull an SP Commute train, on 1-22-1957.
date: ca.1955
location:
photographer:
print: 5" x 7" portrait b&w
obverse data:
reverse data:
"Jack Berkley - Engr"
comments:
This name does not appear in available Coast Division seniority rosters.
date: ca.1945
location:
photographer:
print: 3.5" x 5" portrait b&w
obverse data:
stamped "SEPT 1960"
reverse data:
comments:
closeup of engineman
date: ca.1960
location: Seventh Street Diesel Shop, S.F.
photographer:
print: 3.25" x 4.25" Polaroid b&w
obverse data:
reverse data:
"Clyde Moorehead Engr"
comments:
date: ca.1960
location: Seventh Street Diesel Shop, S.F.
photographer:
print: print: 3.25" x 4.25" Polaroid b&w
obverse data:
reverse data:
"Al Rossi Engr
comments:
date: ca.1955
location: Cahill St. Depot (now Diridon), San Jose
photographer:
print: 3.5" x 5" landscape b&w
obverse data:
stamped: "SEPT 1960
reverse data:
comments:
closeup of engineer
date: ca.1952
location:
photographer:
print: 4' x 6.5" portrait b&w
obverse data:
reverse data:
comments:
closeup of crew
date: 5-14-54
location:
photographer:
print: 4" x 6.5" Polaroid b&w
obverse data:
reverse data:
"#130 5/14/54"
comments:
date: ca.1955
location:
photographer:
print: 3.5" x 6" landscape b&w
obverse data:
stamped "SEPT 1960
reverse data:
comments:
date: ca. late 1950's
location:
photographer:
print: 3.5" x 5" landscape b&w
obverse data:
reverse data:
comments:
date: ca. early 1950's
location:
photographer:
print: 3.25" x 4.5" landscape b&w
obverse data:
reverse data:
comments:
