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WP 918-D

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Sunday, March 28, 2010

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A nice spring day in Niles Canyon.

Sunol, CA

Various, Brightside & Sunol

Niles Canyon

GGMX 6378, EMD F7A

GGMX 6378 is an ex-SP EMD F7A. Reportedly: (According to good sources, including Strapac's fantastic SP Compendium book series), GGMX 6378 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 9010 Kraus-Maffei ML-4000C, SP Class DF-802

SP 9010 on on March 28, 2010
Pacific Locomotive Association's Southern Pacific Krauss-Maffei ML-4000 (63-unit) 9010 at Niles Canyon Railway's Brightside Yard shop on March 28, 2010.
WP 918-D EMD F7A, A.K.A. WP 918
Western Pacific 918-D is an EMD F7, owned by the Pacific Locomotive Association, serial number 8973, built on January 27, 1950. She is powered by a 16 cylinder EMD engine and has 1500 horsepower. 918 is one of 48 F7's ordered by WP (24 "A" units and 24 "B" units). 913 - 921 were built in 1950 while the 922 - 924 four unit A-B-B-A sets were built a year later. 918-D met her end on the Western Pacific on March 30, 1981. [Read More]
WP F-unit 918D subs for an ailing SP P8 2472 on March 28, 2010. The first shot shows the train heading to Sunol to pick up passenger for the 1 p.m. run. Happy passengers offer a toast to the photographer from the rear platform of the business car Oakland, in this related photo that includes the SP 5472 (an EMD SD9.) The next photo is of the unit sitting at Sunol as the train loads. The last shot shows the 918D appearing as though it is a DPU as the train heads west. The F-unit's orange nose looked great amongst the poppys. The SP Pacific 2472 was picked up again before the train ran back down the canyon to Niles.
 

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

Replica SP FM
Golden Gate Railroad Museum's former U.S. Army H-12-44 1847 has been painted to replicate Southern Pacific 1487. Wellsville, Addison and Galeton Railroad (WAG) 46, former SP F7A 6378 is next to it. Photo is at Niles Canyon Railway's Brightside Yard, 2 miles west of Sunol, CA on March 28, 2010.

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

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!

SP 5472 EMD SD9, SP Class DF-125

SP 5472 in Niles Canyon
Happy passengers offer a toast to the photographer from the rear platform of the Southern Pacific (SP) business car Oakland, near and in Sunol, CA, on Sunday March 28, 2010. Pacific Locomotive Association's (PLA) SP 5472 is right behind them.

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