Notes on the diesel section: We have hundreds, if not thousands, of Southern Pacific diesel locomotive photographs and slides in our collection: Therefore: rather than give you a "spike and tie" account of Southern Pacific diesel motive power we instead have chosen some relative examples of many well known units.
SP - Diesel #1004
Image, Early SP diesel switcher, #1004, Order No. SP1004DI One of the first Diesels on the Southern Pacific Coast Division, and the first diesel switcher at Watsonville Junction, is #1004 shown here photographed by then conductor Albert D. Snyder. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] -------------------SP - H12-44 Diesel
Image, Southern Pacific FM H12-44 switcher #2387, 1973 Order No. SP2387DI Photographer: Allen Miller December 9, 1973: A Southern Pacific Fairbanks-Morse H112-44, 1,200-hp, diesel switcher #2387 poses at sunset. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] ____________________SP - SW1500 #2551, Tucson
Image, SP SW1500 EMD diesel switcher #2551, Tucson Order No. SP2551I Photographer: Jack R. Smith Tucson, Arizona, March, 1986: A Southern Pacific SW1500 diesel switcher #2551 basks in the sunset in the engine terminal line. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] ____________________SP - SW1500 #2633, Tucson
Image, Southern Pacific EMD SW1500 switcher, #2633 Order No. SP2633I Photographer: Jack R. Smith A Southern Pacific EMD SW1500 diesel switcher #2633 makes a move in the Tucsan yard, March, 1986. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 3 passenger GP-9's "Daylight"
Image, SP Daylight Ltd. #3005 + 2 other GP9P's 1969 Order No. SP3005X2P Paso Robles, California, Summer, 1969: The San Francisco bound Daylight Limited #99 pauses on the platform. These SP 3000 series GP9P's were equiped with steam heaters. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP - Special Diesel Loco #3197
Image, SP #3197 Bicentennial Engine, 1976 Order No. SP3197I Photographer: Rick Hamman Sunrise at San Jose, California. It is 6:55AM and Southern Pacific Peninsula commute train #127 is leaving the platform on its way to making eight stops before reaching San Francisco. Bicentennial painted diesel #3197 provides the power on the point. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] -------------------SP - SDP45's on Amtrak
Image, 2-SP SDP45's on Amtrak Starlight westbound Order No. SP3202DI Photographer: Fred C. Stoes November, 1973: Westbound Amtrak Starlight is captured near Morgan Hill with two Southern Pacific leased SDP45 diesel locomotives providing the motive power. SP3202 is on the point. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP - SDP45 #3207, Houston
Image, SP SDP45 EMD diesel #3207, Houston, TX Order No. SP3207DI EMD SDP45 diesel Locomotive #3207 is seen on a Southern Pacific special train on January 29, 1984. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP - GP-9E #3852, Salinas
Image, Southern Pacific GP-9E diesel #3852, 1980 Order No. SP3852BWI December 1980, Salinas, California: Th brakeman walks to set the switch so GP-9E diesel #3852 can make its next move in yard. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 3 E7-Units on "Noon Daylight"
Photo, 3 E7's on SP Noon Daylight #96, Pajaro Valley Order No. SP6001P Photo, 3 E7's on SP Noon Daylight #96, Pajaro Valley - 11" X 14" Order No. SP6001NP Photographer: Fred C. Stoes The front of the first unit blurs as three new Southern Pacific EMD E7's power the Noon Daylight at speed (79mph) through the Pajaro Valley near Eaton's Crossing. Not many people are familiar with Eaton's (MP-97.1), but it was in the employee timetable and an industrial spur (behind photographer and out of view), well known by the local railroadmen. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] 11" by 14", Price - $10.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP - Alco PA's
Photo, Southern Pacific Alco-PA's on Daylight Order No. SP6042P Photo, Southern Pacific Alco-PA's on Daylight - 11" X 14" Order No. SP6042NP Photographer: Fred C. Stoes Two new Alco-PA's and an EMD E-unit are seen on the westbound Southern Pacific "Daylight Limited", #99, as it rounds the long curve about half way between Sunnyvale and Mountain View, California. Circa 1956. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] 11" by 14", Price - $10.00 [Add To Cart] -------------------SP - 4- F7 Diesels
Image, four SP (A-B-B-A) F7's pause between consists Order No. SP6152XI Photographer: Ralph H. Payne A four unit A-B-B-A set of almost new F7 diesels pause between assignments somewhere on the Donner Line. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP - EMD FP7'S A&B
Image, SP F7 A&B, Blk-Widow on #91, Sunnyvale Order No. SP6216I Photo, SP F7 A&B, Blk-Widow on #91, Sunnyvale Order No. SP6216P Photo, SP F7 A&B, Blk-Widow on #91, Sunnyvale - 11" X 14" Order No. SP6216NP Photographer: Fred C. Stoes Two Southern Pacific FP7's,(A-unit #6216 & B-unit 8134) are seen rounding the high speed curve with mail and express train #91 in tow about half-a-mile south of Mountain View, California. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11" Image, Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] 7" by 11" Photo, Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] 11" by 14" Photo, Price - $10.00 [Add To Cart] -------------------SP - EMD FP7'S A&B Color
Color Photo, SP FP's on Daylight #98 Order No. SP6452X2P Photographer: Fred C. Stoes Two Southern Pacific FP's (A&B units) are seen on the headend of the Los Angeles bound, five-car, "Daylight Limited, #98. Like the photographer, Fred Stoes, who took his first picture of the Daylight 40 years previous, the two have become silver and gray. October, 1965. Shopping Cart 7" by 11" Photo, Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] -------------------SP - EMD GP40-2 #7963 Color
Photo, Sou Pac GP40-2 #7963 on Sierra RR. Order No. SP7963P Photographer: Rick Hamman Because of former Southern Pacific trackage from Stockton to Merced via Oakdale, Southern Pacific (as of April 1995) still had about a mile of track at Oakdale, cut off from their system, with several large customers on it. To get to that track and to interchange with Sierra Railroad, they first had to come in over Santa Fe and the Sierra to switch that Oakdale track. Shown here, SP40-2 #7963 is about to back up to make the connection in the Sierra Yard and to sort some of its own cars. This was the biggest type engine ever to run on the Sierra. Track to far right is Santa Fe. Everything else is Sierra. Track to far left at switch goes to SP track. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] -------------------SP - SD40T-2 #8363, south of Dunsmuir
Image, Southern Pacific SD40T-2 EMD diesel #8363 Order No. SP8363I Photographer: Rick Hamman Four miles south of Dunsmuir, California, deep in the Sacramento River Canyon finds a heavy Southern Pacific freight train on the downgrade with SD40T-2 diesel #8363 on the point. 1980 Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11" Image, Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP - SD45T-2 #9238 on the move!
Image, Southern Pacific SD45T-2 diesel #9238 broadside Order No. SP9238I In this broadside view of an EMD SD45T-2 tunnel mount, 20-cylinder, 3,600 horsepower, extra muscled, diesel manufactured for the Southern Pacific, every inch of space is spoken for. View was taken on the move at Watsonville Junction, California in December of 1980. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11" Image, Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP - Diesel Loco #9342
Photo, Southern Pac. diesel #9342 at Truckee Order No. SP9342P Photographer: Rick Hamman A trio of Southern Pacific heavy horsepower diesels, with 9342 on the point. are positioned on the High Iron at Truckee, California soon to go into Donner Pass service, 1978. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] -------------------SP - Diesels At Truckee
Photo, Southern Pacific, Truckee, CA, POWER Order No. SP9342AP Photographer: Rick Hamman Three groups of heavy Southern Pacific road diesels line the yard at Truckee, California waiting to work in train or to return to Sparks, Nevada. The year was 1978. Southern Pacific still ruled Donner Pass. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] -------------------SP - "City of San Francisco", Ogden
Image, "City of San Francisco" at Ogden Order No. SPCOSFI Photo, "City of San Francisco" at Ogden Order No. SPCOSFP Photo, "City of San Francisco" at Ogden - 11" X 14" Order No. SPCOSFP Photographer: Fred C. Stoes This is the combination Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, and Chicago & North Western "City of San Francisco". Normally it arrived fifteen minutes ahead of the "City of Los Angeles" on the left. On this day in 1949 at Ogden, Utah it was late. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11" Image, Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] 7" by 11" Photo, Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] 11" by 14" Photo, Price - $10.00 [Add To Cart] -------------------SP - "City of San Francisco", Oakland
Photo, SP "City of San Francisco" at Oakland Order No. SPCOSFOKP Photo, SP "City of San Francisco" at Oakland - 11" X 14" Order No. SPCOSFOKNP Photographer: Fred C. Stoes The beautiful Southern Pacific - Union Pacific - Chicago & North Western new streamliner, the "City of San Francisco" sits at the Oakland Mole about to depart for all points east, 1939. Shopping Cart 7" by 11" Photo, Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] 11" by 14" Photo, Price - $10.00 [Add To Cart] -------------------SP - GP'S At Big Trees
Photo, Sou. Pac. GP's/San Lorenzo River Brdg Order No. SPGPSBTP Photographer: Rick Hamman A warm sunny day on the San Lorenzo River finds a young girl waving at the engineer in the lead GP diesel unit as a trio of such engines crosses the bridge in the Henry Cowell Big Trees Grove. Of course the wave was likewise returned on this lazy 1977 afternoon. Shopping Cart 7" by 11" Photo, Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] -------------------SP 4-Units Cross Sacramento River
Color Photo SP/UP units/Sacramento River Xing Order No. SPREDINGP Photographer: Rick Hamman Three Southern Pacific diesel units and one Union Pacific unit are seen crossing the tall bridge over the Sacramento River at Redding, California. This great northbound freight train image was taken in the late 1970's. Shopping Cart 7" by 11" Photo, Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] -------------------
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