Locomotives
The SF&O originally purchased a small, unnamed, 2-2-0 type locomotive and a larger 4-4-4 type tank locomotive named the Liberty. In 1863, needing another locomotive, the SF&O purchased a 2-2-4 type combination locomotive and express car from a line in San Francisco. It was unnamed, but was unofficially called Old Betsy. By 1869, a more powerful locomotive was needed to pull longer trains, so a new 4-4-0 type locomotive was ordered and named the Oakland. With the SF&O merged into the Central Pacific Railroad in 1870, the former SF&O locomotives were sent to various other locations on the CP system and CP locomotives were brought in to pull the local trains on 7th St.
| Name | Builder | Type | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco | 2-2-0 | 1862 | ||
| Liberty | Vulcan Iron Works, San Francisco | 4-4-4 Tank locomotive | 1862 | became California Pacific RR # 178; rebuilt as 4-4-0 in 1872; became Stockton & Copperopolis # 3; then Southern Pacific # 1101; retired 1892 |
| Old Betsy | 2-2-4 | purchased 1863 from Market Street Railroad of San Francisco | ||
| Oakland | Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works | 4-4-0 | 1869 | became California Pacific RR shop switcher in Sacramento; retired 1877 |
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Famous quotes containing the word locomotives:
“The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
In the days of long ago,
Ranged where the locomotives sing
And the prairie flowers lie low:—”
—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)