MALLET COMPOUND S. P. FREIGHT ENGINE SIERRA GRADE. Real photo post card RPPC

by Railroads, Southern Pacific Railroad

$65 · Offered by L. W. Currey

San Francisco: California Sales Co., Pub., n.d. Postmarked Sparks, 5 May 1910. Addressed to Miss Hazel Snaith in Carson City, Nevada. Sparks, Nevada, was a railroad town founded in 1904 and incorporated in 1905, the eastern terminus of the Southern Pacific's Sierra Division. A photograph of No. 4007, a cab forward 2-8-8-2 Mallet-Consolidation compound expansion locomotive which entered service in 1910 the year this card was written to move freight over the

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