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RENO, Nev. — Two historic locomotives that were part of the pioneering shift from steam-powered to diesel-electric trains in the mid-1900s are coming back to their home in a northeast Nevada rail yar
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Bruce
"No. 401 (in photo above) was nearly lost in a roundhouse fire in Cobre north of West Wendover near the Utah line in 1952.
Railway general superintendent Harold M. Peterson wrote in his autobiography that he was awakened by a phone call at about 1 a.m. from a South Pacific Railroad dispatcher who said the engine was still inside the roundhouse as the fire raged. It was about three hours later when he finally got word that an engineer, Jumbo Labate, had come to the rescue.
The dispatcher “reported the locomotive had been safely moved out of the fire, but the roundhouse was completely gone. Jumbo Labate had opened the big doors of the roundhouse, got up in the engine, started it and backed out of the roundhouse before the roof fell in,” Peterson wrote."
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