I ran across this photo "you know where" and declined to bid on it (I did buy some others which I will share shortly). The photo was pretty washed out, but I uploaded the image and managed to put some tone back into it to share with all of you.
It was taken sometime before 1947 in Sacramento, probably in the tiny D-street yard. MW 301 was formerly OA&E/SF-S/SN Hall Scott passenger motor 1019. It became MW 301 after the end of passenger service. In 1947 it was demotorized, and became MW 81. In the 1960s it was retired and donated to the BAERA. It remains in unrestored condition at the Western Railway Museum.
SN tower car MW 54 was one of three similar tower/storage cars (36, 38 and 54) rebuilt by the SN 1930. Originally it was OA&E/SF-S 3018, a 36' boxcar built by PC&F in 1913. It lasted as a tower car until 1952 or 1954 (the records are in conflict).
