Identify the engineer and location

[dnevil]

Can anyone identify the engineer or the location in the attached photo? This was posted on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/331946865215

Regards,
Daris Nevil

[Gary Armitstead]

The location is Los Angeles Live Steamers, north side of the facility looking east toward Glendale, CA. Over the ivy covered chain link fence is Zoo Drive.

I have no idea who the engineer might be .

[Doug_Edwards]

That looks like a young Skid Roeh, with the photo taken in the 70's. Loco was a NG 2-6-2 running on 4.75" track.

Regards,

Doug Edwards

[cp4449]

I would like to know what happened to the equipment he is running.

[mattmason]

Those look like the old LALS club cars.

[cp4449]

Those look like the old LALS club cars.

You mean that I did not have to have some made? So the question still, I wonder where they all went to.

[Cary Stewart]

Gary's location is correct and the date is too. The box cars were made from RR ties with some metal rails, trucks and couplers. The tank cars were made from old oxygen tanks. There were quite a lot of them and were built in the 1960s. Who by??? Where are they now??? I don't think there are any left on the facility. I can remember Doc. Rider pulling a long string of these cars with his 1" Pacific. More that 15 if I recall. Both types of cars were known to carry people from time to time. I have no idea about the loco and engineer.
Cary

[ratsgarage]

I know where five of the box/tie cars and three of the tank cars are. I brought out one each at the small gauge get together last summer and no body was interested in them.

[cp4449]

Well I am interested in the cars, as I was not at the get together last year. Are they local to Lals? PM me please.

[LivingLegend]

The cars in the photo were were kept at LALS and were stored in the cabinets under the counter/bench top of the original steam plant... which was located on the east side of and adjacent to the 1" turntable. I guess one could say they were the LALS 1" club cars.

I don't remember who built them. I want to say it could have been Bud Whitmer, but I can't say that for sure. Jim Kreider might remember.

LL

[LivingLegend]

... Don't recognize the engineer.

LL

[skid-roe]

The engineer is Kenneth "skid" Roeh, the locomotive was sold to a fellow in Dunwoody GA in the early 1980's