RESTORATION in Postcards 4

Round house restoration work.

Heading out of LA Union station, I always keep a lookout for restoration work. (In the background are the downtown buildings of LA.) Here the round house building, if there ever was one, is gone. We can see a great variety of work being done on an even greater variety of rolling stock.

On the far left, you can see a couple of Amtrak cars, a dome car from the 1950’s, a piece of modern motive power #153, and various work items before a fenced area. Inside that right side fenced section is a black box-like fuel tender, and a beautiful steam engine under restoration. The Tender says Santa Fe. I really love finding things like this.

Perhaps someone knows which engine and tender this might be? Do let me know. Thanks.
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• Himself: Working, hard, talking hard, and lost his temper with someone this morning. He can only do so much.


• Myself: Too fat to fit in shorts. More laundry, I’m not going out in this 100 degree weather today. Margot is cooling one room as her bill last month is astronomical.


• Reading: Book 3 in the Library series.


• Gratitude’s: Great day at work yesterday, sheets in the wash today, house in the 70’s.