Revenue service No. 2467 is one of 15
4-6-2 heavy "
Pacific" type
steam locomotives built by
Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) in January 1921 for the
Southern Pacific Railroad (SP), designated the
P-8 class, and numbered 2461-2475. These locomotives were initially used to serve the SP’s long-distance passenger trains, such as the
Overland Route from
Ogden, Utah, to
Oakland and the
Sunset Limited between
Los Angeles and
El Paso, Texas, until the SP’s larger
4-8-2 “Mountain” types replaced them. No. 2467 pulled its last long-distance passenger train from
Fresno to
Oakland on February 10, 1945. The locomotive was subsequently reassigned to pull local passenger trains and
commuter trains between
Sacramento and Oakland and the
San Francisco-
San Jose,
commuter route. No. 2467 pulled its last revenue train on December 26, 1956, before it was removed from the SP’s active list. On July 25, 1960, No. 2467 was donated to the city of Oakland, where the locomotive was put on static display at a park that would later become
Harrison Railroad Park. The latter idea came from District 3 City Councilman
Howard Rilea, who was a retired railroad
engineer who had ridden on No. 2467 during its final long-distance run in 1945. In July 1990, the locomotive was removed from Harrison Railroad Park and moved to a nearby yard, where a restoration effort called
Project 2467 commenced. The restoration process included replacing the flues and tubes, fabricating the boiler jacketing, repairing the
firebox, and refurbishing the
cab. In May 1999, No. 2467 was successfully test fired, and the following month, the locomotive was approved to legally operate by the
Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). Once the fair was over, No. 2467 was towed to the
Golden Gate Railroad Museum (GGRM), which owns another SP P-8
No. 2472) at the
Hunters Point shipyard in San Francisco, where No. 2467 was stored and put into occasional excursion service. In January 2003, the GGRM hosted a photo session that featured Numbers 2467 and 2472 operating together.
Disposition In August 2005, the
US Navy ordered the GGRM to vacate all of their equipment from Hunters Point, since ownership of the site was being turned over to the city of San Francisco. No. 2467, which was still owned by the PLA, was subsequently towed back to the CSRM in Sacramento, where a long-term loan was signed to keep the locomotive in storage at the CSRM’s property. As of 2023, No. 2467 is being displayed inside the
Central Pacific Passenger Station. == Surviving classmates ==