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I have lots of time on my hands these days, so thought this to be an interesting thread. I pulled down my copy of "Rails to the Minarets" and looked up the answer. This from page 38 of Hank Johnston's "Rails to the Minarets" "In 1927, Alco delivered an even larger saddle tanker, the 2-10-2T (No. 5), which both the manufacturer and SPL {Suger Pine Lumber} did call the 'Minarets,' in honor of the Minarets and Western Railway, even though the locomotive was used almost exclusively on the SPL main line from Bass Lake to Centeral Camp. The engine had larger drivers (48 inch) and greater tractive power than the smaller 2-8-2T's, and was never duplicated by either ALCO or any other manufacturer" Privous to the above the the author states that the 2-8-2Ts where never refered to by ALCO or SPL as "Minarets." The only Minarets type locomotive, SPL No 5, the 2-10-2T was scrapped by H. J. Kaiser during 1947. JIm
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