. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . inmen to transport produce, etc., fortheir own convenience, and it was not un-usual to see the Gen. Pierce or C. (another wood-burner long runby Mr. Wright) roll in with boxes, bagsor crates on the front footplate contain-ing anything from vegetables to live pork. Some of the other well remembered en-gines that for years did faithful work onthis tortuous and mountainous branchwere the Grafton, Crombie, G. , James Kettell, Contoocookand King Lear. The writer, back in the 80s,
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . inmen to transport produce, etc., fortheir own convenience, and it was not un-usual to see the Gen. Pierce or C. (another wood-burner long runby Mr. Wright) roll in with boxes, bagsor crates on the front footplate contain-ing anything from vegetables to live pork. Some of the other well remembered en-gines that for years did faithful work onthis tortuous and mountainous branchwere the Grafton, Crombie, G. , James Kettell, Contoocookand King Lear. The writer, back in the 80s, got the en-gineer bee buzzing in his head, and wentout into Nevada, where he eventually gota shop job as spare fireman in the South-ern Pacific shops at Wadsworth. But the memory remains strong, andsince reading and LocoMotrvEEngineering he has looked longingly eachmonth for some word or reminiscence ofthe old Truckee division of the SouthernPacific, of which Winnemucca was theeastern terminal, with Wadsworth onehundred and thirty miles westward andseparated by a desolate waste of OLD B. & M. 4-4-0, rigged with a fire hose and pump and wascalled Goliath, because she was so little,I suppose. She was an exact counterpartof the one illustrated in Railway Engineering for December,1906, and could start loads out of all pro-portion to her size. To see her racingand roaring at the tail end of a longfreight up two-mile siding hill was anexhilarating sight. Some of the desert crews of that timewere Johnnie Smith and the 203 and gen-erally bulletined for the Golden GateSpecial on its bi-weekly run; PoUick onthe 91, Shepley on the 222 (the threedeuces), Arthur on the 62, Houston onthe 149, Dorsey on the 180, old BenChurch on the 13, Burke on the 2 (thedeuce), Louie Hattenhouse on the 13s,Dolan on the 360, and Forrest on the last two were modern 4-4-0 Schen-ectadys. The name of the division superinten-dent, who had an office at Wadsworth,
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