Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2008.1008.1.549Description
Black & white print. Snapshot. Image of 16 men standing at the side of a steam locomotive engine #1243 & tender. Historical information sign taped in two sheets to side of tender. Most of the men are wearing suits, a couple are in shirt sleeves, a couple have on light jackets & man at far left is wearing overalls.
Stamped on back in black ink: "Professional Photo Services, Aug 17 '68 Frank J. Meyers Rawlins, Wyo."
Written in pencil on white adhesive label pasted to back: "Locomotives".
Yellowed transparent tape adhesive on back in all four corners. Emulsion cracked & scratched throughout. Used as a mystery photo in 2011 and we received several phone calls and visitors with information about this weeks photo. This photos was taken August 17, 1968 and the men are retired engineers. The ones identified from left to right are: 1. Abram Duran; 2. Marinus P. Lundbeck; 3.Cellus G. Jose; 4.Robert A. Ringele; 5. Richard (Dick) Gealt; 6. Harry Cook; 7.John W. Wing; 8. Jesse Ashlock; 9.Soren Kolsen; 10. Richard G. Sutton; 11. Sidney Stephens; 12.Sigmund D. Karst; 13. Rupert Waite; 14. Tom Haynes; 15. Carl M. Jacobsen; 16. Curly Sloss. (#1 was also identified as Ralph Montoya but several other people identified him as Abe Duran.) The train engine #1243 is the oldest "Ten Wheeler" owned by the Union Pacific Railroad and was built in 1890. From the 1930's until 1956 it ran on the Saratoga and Encampment branch. It is currently on display at the Western Heritage Museum in Omaha. Its' sister engine #1242 also ran on the Saratoga and Encampment line and is now in Lions Park in Cheyenne near the Botanical Gardens.
During the Rawlins Centennial in 1968 it was decided to gather all of the retired railroad engineers for a picture with the old steam engine No. 1243.Collection
Photograph Collection