Postcard of a Southern Pacific forward cab locomotive en:Southern Pacific class AC-8 with the passenger train Overland Limited at Reno, Nevada. This is locomotive #4202. This type of locomotive was built and delivered to the railroad in 1939.
Date
Not mailed. These locomotives went on the road in 1939. This is likely circa 1940s as after that time, the Overland Limited would have had a diesel locomotive and not a steam locomotive. By 1958, all locomotives of this type were out of service on Southern Pacific.
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