Golden Gate Railroad Museum

SP 2472 P8
On Sunday, March 28, 2010, Golden Gate Railroad Museum's (GGRM) Southern Pacific (SP) 4-6-2 Class P8 Pacific 2472 is being towed backwards by Pacific Locomotive Association's SP SD-9 5472 which is on the west end of the train. The location is called Estates Crossing which is just west of Niles Canyon Railway's Brightside Yard. Though it looks like the 2472 is a manned rear end DPU, it is not!
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Golden Gate Railroad Museum (GGRM, GGMX)

The Golden Gate Railroad Museum (GGRM, reporting mark GGMX) is a non-profit railroad museum in California that is dedicated to the preservation of steam and passenger railroad equipment, as well as the interpretation of local railroad history.

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"SP" 1487 (Replica) FM H-12-44

Replica of SP FM H-12-44 1487, black overall with orange tiger stripes. Owned by Golden Gate Railway Museum. Formerly U.S. Army 1847, based at Hawthorne, Nevada.
Replica SP FM
Golden Gate Railroad Museums former U.S. Army H-12-44. Wellsville, Addison and Galeton Railroad (WAG) 46, former Southern Pacific F7A 6378 is next to it. Photo is at Niles Canyon Railway's Brightside Yard, 2 miles west of Sunol, CA on Sunday, March 28, 2010.

GGMX 6378, EMD F7A

GGMX 6378 is an ex-SP EMD F7A. Reportedly: it was built as SP 6378, SP Class DF-8, an F7A serial number 16559, in 1952. It was built without nose MU connections and never received them, making this a spotting feature. In 1965 it was reclassed as to SP Class EF415A-8.
Disposition: Locomotive was retired and sold to GE in 1968. It became Wellsville Addison and Galeton 2100. It was transferred to Louisiana and North West 46, it was acquired by GGRM in or around 2000.
GGMX 6378 in Brightside Yard
Golden Gate Railroad Museum (GGRM, reporting mark GGMX) F7 GGMX 6378 is sitting in Niles Canyon Railway's Brightside Yard on Sunday, March 28, 2010.

SP 2472 Baldwin Pacific (4-6-2), SP Class P8

SP 2472 is an SP Class P-8, 4-6-2. According to good sources, including Strapac's fantastic SP Compendium series, Southern Pacific 2472 is a 4-6-2 Pacific type steam locomotive, SP Class P8, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, builders number 54477, for Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) in January 1921. It was vacated in Feb. 1957 and donated to San Mateo County in April 1959. In 1976 a group of volunteers started restoring the locomotive. This group became the Golden Gate Railroad Museum, the current owner-operator of SP 2472.

SP 2472 in Sunnyvale
Southern Pacific (SP) 2472 in Sunnyvale, running northbound, on the Santa Express on Saturday, December 16, 1995.
SP 2472 at Estates Crossing
On Sunday, March 28, 2010, Golden Gate Railroad Museum's Southern Pacific 4-6-2 Class P8 Pacific 2472 is being towed backwards by Pacific Locomotive Association's SP SD-9 5472 which is on the west end of the train. The location is called Estates Crossing which is just west of Niles Canyon Railway's Brightside Yard. Though it looks like the 2472 is a manned rear end DPU, it is not!

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