…mmerce, there was a proclamation read to all who attended the day's festivities. Mr. B.S. Sines, the Executive Vice President of the Southern Pacific Railroad lines in Texas and Louisiana read a proclamation conveying the locomotive to its new owners. It read in part:

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Southern Pacific locomotive #794 was 1 of 20 (numbered 775-794) built by the American Locomotive Company’s Brooks Locomotive Works of Dunkirk, NY in 1916, for the Texas & New Orleans Railroad. Our research indicates that she was built as a kit and the parts were shipped to Texas and the locom…