Southern Pacific

SP Cabboose

I hope you enjoy these photos as much as I enjoyed taking them. The Southern Pacific railroad will always be my favorite railroad!

SP and its subsidiaries

Steve Sloan's Trains : UP : Southern Pacific : Rolling Stock

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Cabooses

SP 4759 C-50-9 | UP (SP)1450
SP caboose 4759, now merely a shoving platform doing its job on N. MacArthur and 6th Streets in Tracy, CA on May 7, 2010. UP GP40-2 (SP)1450 is shoving on the back with UP GP38-2 813.
According to Evan Werkema, "UP's Tracy switcher coming off the spur that used to serve Holly Sugar (the spur still has a few customers south of 205). UP's switcher serves most of the remaining rail-served industries in the Tracy area, including customers on the remaining stub of the SP main line toward Altamont Pass and on spurs off the ex-WP main at Carbona and behind the Tracy ACE station. So far as I know, the first customer Cal Northern serves is south of Lyoth."

SSW 85, Class C-50-5 Caboose

SSW 85 is an SP C-50-5 Caboose. Reportedly this class built by International Car in 1974 for both SP and SSW.
SSW 85 at rear of a beet train
On Saturday, March 31, 1990 Cotton Belt (SSW) caboose 85 is at the end on an eastbound (southbound) empty beet train on the then SP Westside line at Vernalis, CA.

SPMW Rolling Stock

SPMW 205, ALCo Rotary Snow Plow

SPMW 205 is an ALCo Rotary Snow Plow. Reportedly: SPMW 205 was built by American Locomotive Co. (ALCo) at it's Brooks Works as a steam powered snow plow, SP 715. It was converted to electric in 1958. In 2008 it was donated to the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento (CSRM).
SPMW 205 at the CSRM
California State Railroad Museum (CSRM) owned rotary snow plow SPMW 205 is at the CSRM in Sacramento, CA on Saturday, May 20, 2023.

UP SPMW 319, Snow Flanger

SPMW 319 is a Snow Flanger. Reportedly: I have not found any more information regarding who built it, etc.
UP SPMW 319 in Dunsmuir
Union Pacific's Southern Pacific Railroad Company, Maintenance of Way (SPMW) Flanger SPMW 319 is in Dunsmuir, CA on Wednesday, March 16, 2022.

SPMW 4031, Jordan Spreader

SPMW 4031 is a Jordan Spreader. Reportedly: Union Pacific had it rebuilt and modernized for continued use in 2010.
Jordan Spreader at Santa Clara
In a photo taken circa 1981, Southern Pacific (SPMW) 4031 is in a train, in transit, at Santa Clara, CA.
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