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Southern Pacific Del Monte Limited 4-4-0 # 211 at Pacific Grove railroad depot

Southern Pacific Railroad # 211

Southern Pacific No. 211
Photo Accession # 72-008-0051
6x8 Glass negative
By C. K. Tuttle in April, 1891

This view by C. K. Tuttle of a passenger locomotive # 211 taking on water at the Pacific Grove station.
This steam engine was built by Schenectady Locomotive Works in December of 1886 and was renumber to 1371 in 1891 and was scrapped on Jan. 5, 1918.
1906 Aerial view of Pacific Grove showing the Depot and turntable. The Del Monte last ran out of Pacific Grove in 1958, when they closed the station and the depot buned in 1962. The tracks were pulled up in 1983 and paved over and the bike trail built
Gallery of 1950's + railroad. Photos of the northbound Del Monte train No. 77 leaving Monterey for San Francisco. Pulled by a GP-9 diesel-electric locomotive.
And the Sand Train at the Sand Plant at the end of the line at Spanish Bay.

In this photo in back of # 211 is probably the Del Monte Limited. The Del Monte ran from 1890 San Francisco to the Del Monte Hotel, and Monterey and to the end of the line in Pacific Grove.
Pacific Improvement Co. bought out the Monterey & Salinas Valley narrow-gauge on Sept. 29, 1879 and built a broad-gauded main line from Castroville to Monterey.
The last Del Monte train left Monterey for San Francisco on April 30, 1971, this marked the end of 82 year run.
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