Unknown SP 200
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An electric locomotive by an unknown manufacturer as Southern Pacific no. 200.
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This is NOT a diesel, it is a (crude) model of a Baldwin/Westinghouse electric locomotive. Note the trolley pole on the roof. The prototype was originally use on Southern Pacific electric lines but was later transferred to Pacific Electric.
Are you referring to the Portland Oregon based “Red Electrics” system? What is the track gauge for this car, “O”?? Is it powered or dummy? And what of the coupler? I picked up a hand-built all wood model of an early oil tank car in Junction City that had once been aquired in an auction. So I never got to see the engine that it had supposedly come with. The detail work by the model builder was amazing with all those metal components carefully crafted. While most of these guys were contructing pieces for their own “pikes”, one can’t help but wonder about Espee’s use of stationary models in window displays. In one instance, photos exist of the early “Overnights” being advertised as a window display with models. Could SP and/or PE have done this kind of thing even earlier? Santa Fe had encased models of diesels in a display outside the Hollywood (Vine Street) agency. Anyone remember the amazing huge airplane models that hung in the later Reginald Denny’s hobbyshop around Santa Monica @ Western? Hollywood props?
SP 201-203 (B/W 1912 for Portland, Eugene & Eastern…to SP in 1915) covered here: https://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr2314.htm