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Here are a few photos of Southern Pacific equipment. A few date from
the actual SP era, but most are more contemporary. As the SP fades, I
try for as many photos of remaining equipment as possible. Photos grouped
by type, more or less. |
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Rolling Stock |
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Autorack No. 516176 is parked at Carrizozo, NM on 7/18/2002.
Note that the rack sits on a Southern Pacific flat, not a Trailer Train car. |
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Autorack
on an ETTX flat, seen on the Golden State route north of Tularosa on
2/18/2008. This one has had several panels replaced. |
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SP
autorack on an SSW flat, No. 80631, seen on the Golden State route north of
Tularosa on 2/18/2008. There were two SP racks on this particular UP
train-- kind of nice to see them still in service some 12 years after the
merger.
Bottom: A closer view of the same car. |
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 Cotton Belt (SSW) car and
tri-level rack, both carrying number 80691 per SP practice
for some owned flats. This one received Speed Lettering sometime prior to
the UP merger, just like its sister in the photo above. Here it's in
Albuquerque on 2/26/2009. |
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Tool car No. 5810 sits at Grand Junction, CO on 8/02/1998.
Some of the lettering has been peeled off; look closely for the words "Car
Houston". And now we see why the SPL had difficulty making money: they
painted their MOW cars like first-class varnish! |
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SP container No. 681710, a 48-footer, is on a westbound stack train at
Tucumcari, March 24, 2001. |
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Eleven
years after the UP merger, one wouldn't expect to find an SP 5-pack well car
in pristine condition. Yet, on 7/29/07, such was the case. SP
No. 513821 was in line at the BNSF intermodal yard in Denver, clean as a
whistle and looking good. Unfortunately, it wasn't positioned so that
I could photograph the whole thing. The other three sections are out
of sight to the left. One carried a white-on-brown version of the SPL
"meatball" (herald). |
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Here's
a short ACF covered hopper, in soda ash service in Colorado. It's on a
westbound UP freight seen at Hot Sulphur Springs on 8/09/2007, headed eventually
for the Soda plant at Rifle. These cars stand out, being much shorter than
the usual ACF hoppers. The cargo is a lot denser than wheat, though, hence
the smaller size... |
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SP Boxcar, heavily tagged, is eastbound on the BNSF at Kingman, AZ in June 2004. |
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Double-door
boxcar No. 246159 is on a westbound freight at Sulphur, CO on 8/09/2007. |
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Double-door
boxcar No. 226525, lettered for Golden West Service, is on a westbound freight
at Sulphur, CO on 8/09/2007. |
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Gondola
323074 at Rocky, west of Denver, 12/06/2008. Lots of graffiti, a common
occurrence on cars that often sit in one place for extended periods... |
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Gondola
323157 in Denver, 9/01/2008. |
Southern Pacific
