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SP SD-9 works it's way across the roadway with an open side car.
I think I'd kill to hear this guy under load and in Run-8!
Builder:GM EMD, La Grange, IL
SN:21297
Erected:1956
Model:SD-9
Weight:180 tons
HP:1750
I think I'd kill to hear this guy under load and in Run-8!
Builder:GM EMD, La Grange, IL
SN:21297
Erected:1956
Model:SD-9
Weight:180 tons
HP:1750
Category Photography / Scenery
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 1067px
File Size 1.86 MB
Listed in Folders
You're lucky because you had a mess of these running up on the Siskoyou Branch in Siskyou, CA for many years.
I've never personally seen an SP bloody nose SD9 much less one in Daylight scheme.
By the time I got down here to Texas I was lucky to see most of this locomotives bigger cousin SD40-2s, tunnels. GP40-2s.
Houston was the major hub for SP back in the day before UP got them.. Anything south of Spring or east of it was SP and the rest was UP.
Once they bought SP the traffic through Spring shot up from less then twenty trains a day to about thirty a day. SP had a majority of the business around here before UP bought them.
I really wish I had captured some stuff back in the day but being young and naive has it's penalties.
I've never personally seen an SP bloody nose SD9 much less one in Daylight scheme.
By the time I got down here to Texas I was lucky to see most of this locomotives bigger cousin SD40-2s, tunnels. GP40-2s.
Houston was the major hub for SP back in the day before UP got them.. Anything south of Spring or east of it was SP and the rest was UP.
Once they bought SP the traffic through Spring shot up from less then twenty trains a day to about thirty a day. SP had a majority of the business around here before UP bought them.
I really wish I had captured some stuff back in the day but being young and naive has it's penalties.
there was usually a par of them on the bowman turn back in the 60s and 70s. and the nwp used pretty much nothing but in mulitples of four and five.
singly or in pairs as goats in roseville off and on in the 70s. there were a couple of passenger locals, 201/202 up the east valley to marysville, and the senator sacramento to oakland, in the 50s/60s. i'd almost forgotten about. steam generator equiped sd-7/9s and the f/m's on the commute down the penninsula in the bay. i lived up on the hill so i only saw those when i was down that way which wasn't often.
absolute favorite of engine crews on the s.p. in 50s and 60s. they called the 5400s caddilacs. i remember that.
oh we had those with ice brakers pulling flangers on the hill too, before emd started coming out with bigger power in the late 60s.
that's like seeing an old friend seeing one of those in black widow like that.
singly or in pairs as goats in roseville off and on in the 70s. there were a couple of passenger locals, 201/202 up the east valley to marysville, and the senator sacramento to oakland, in the 50s/60s. i'd almost forgotten about. steam generator equiped sd-7/9s and the f/m's on the commute down the penninsula in the bay. i lived up on the hill so i only saw those when i was down that way which wasn't often.
absolute favorite of engine crews on the s.p. in 50s and 60s. they called the 5400s caddilacs. i remember that.
oh we had those with ice brakers pulling flangers on the hill too, before emd started coming out with bigger power in the late 60s.
that's like seeing an old friend seeing one of those in black widow like that.
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