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for Maps: See our extensice Maps & Timetables Pages
Coast Division Coast / Western Divisions Engineering Drawings San Francisco Peninsula
New 9-5-25: Paul Noble's photos of SP in the Bay Area in the 70's & 80's Castroville 1974 and a hundred years earlier Monterey Branch (part of Del Monte series) New 9-19-25: Coast Division Local Freight Assignments, 1952-58 - company docs
Post-Flood on Southern Pacific at Bay Point (Port Chicago), California, 1911 Fresno Yard, c1910 - B&W postcard colorized by Wx4; it turned out prety good "The Valley" and Sierra Foothills
Donner Pass Trackside from Eugene Through the Cascades to Donner and Beyond - a Wx4 friend's photo Oregon Division
Shasta District / Division
Nevada & Utah
Tucson Division, Carrizozo Sub
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Steam's Last Summer at Niles Tower Last SP Standard Gauge Steam Revenue Freight Train, 12-30-57 Note: a more extensive index of the following can be found HERE. A Circular of the Times I: The passing of the 40 ft. boxcar A Circular of the Times II: Roseville Herder Jobs Abolished |
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additional material 7-23-24: Mr. Toad's Wild Ride and E.O. a "Bo? Oh NO! My first and last firing trips over SP's Siskiyou Summit were both a bit unsettling, to say the least. Includes photos. Commute GP9 3187 - "A Swing and a Miss: musings about Caltrain's 1982 paint scheme, Governor Medfly & B.F. Biaggini" The Last Steam-Powered Peninsula Commute (you say 1957? Wrong!) E.O. a 'Bo? Oh No! a nostalgic, but uncomfortable, last trip to Ashland Braking in a Topsy-Turvey World The Most Absolute of Absolute Signals Close Call at College Park Yard How I Came to Embrace Direct Traffic Control How to Get By A Red Automatic Interlocking Signal Using Rule 663bs A Puzzling Day at Bayshore, featuring totally unreliable info from a switchman Lettuce Make the Best of It! GP40X's and Farm-Fresh Produce Delivery [10-2013: photo link now fixed] |
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(see also: Geographic Locations, Above) Rosters SP Steam locomotive rosters for 1935 and 1942 Number of Steam Locos and Diesel Units Assigned to SP Co. December 31, 1957 - SPCo doc broken down by division - Sheldon Perry Early San Francisco Bay Area Locomotive Rosters Revisited - San Francisco & Oakland, San Francisco & Alameda, San Rafael & San Quentin revised rosters plus Los Angeles & San Pedro 2nd loco origin clarification Commute engines used in freight & through passenger service, month of September, 1963 SP Steam in the Post-Season - photos of post 11-30-1956 active engines motor car madness - a collection of material related to gas-electric motor cars, mostly SP, mostly Mckeen;: now includes the Mckeen Motor Train! and SP Mckeen / gas electric roster docs Final SP Peninsula Commute Fleet Roster - 1980
Operators' Manuals
Diagrams, blueprints, drawings Steam Locomotive Blueprints - rescued by Bayshore Machinist Fred Boland - about 120! 1941 Southern Pacific Lines Diagrams of Tenders; 80 pages Detailed SP C. S. steam loco drawings - excerpts from 1905 American Engineer and Railroad Journal articles: coal burning 4-4-2, 4-6-2, 2-8-0, 0-6-0 - Google Books Motor Cars, Electrics motor car madness - a collection of material related to gas-electric motor cars, mostly SP, mostly Mckeen;: now includes the Mckeen Motor Train! and SP Mckeen / gas electric roster docs New 3-12-25: SP McKeen Car Trials & Tribulations: new addition to Motor Car Madness Peninsular Railway: A Biography of a Humble Litte Line Car - log book of car #14's activities, circa WWI New 9-19-25: SP 1920's Electrification, San Francisco to San Jose; Six -track railroad between Visitation and Broadway - internal correspondence exploring the possibility Caltrain 1992 electrification feasibility study - Caltrans doc Steam The Last Steam-Powered Peninsula Commute (you say 1957? Wrong!) Last SP Standard Gauge Steam Revenue Freight Train, 12-30-57 New 12-29-24: Last of SP's High Steppers, P-1 #2411: Last of the Harriman 4-6-2's and 4-4-2's, including the P-4 rebuilds from P-1s SP Train # 308 w/ Engine #1714 at Willows, California, 1910-11: Online archaeological investigation determines the "where and when" of a classic old photo of the Hamilton City mixed train, as it turns out Oregon Short Line 4-6-0 #800 on train #20, Roseburg, Oregon, ca. 1910-1913 4-6-6-2's on Altamont Pass WHAT the...? Angus McDonald toys with ultra streamlined steam idea in 1933: includes PDF of elevations for 4-4-2T, 4-4-4T, 4-4-0 & 4-4-2 get over it!: scrapped SP steam photos 4449 and the Freedom Train Diesels Southern Pacific's Early Remote Control Locomotive Tests, 1961-65 - company documents RS-32 Photo Album - eventually well over a hundred pics of SP/NYC and later owner's units Diesels in the Bay Area Wx4 Staff Reunites With Caltrain #901 - photos, commentary about visiting our favorite loco at CMOF, sadly two days after it was retired SP Fairbanks-Morse Photo Gallery - H12's & T-M's Historic SP Bloody Nose diesels congregate at W. Oakland, 1959 - don't miss the details! "Commute" FP7 #6462, system unique
GP40X - photos & Bay Area stories A hot move on the Peninsula - RS-32 fire at Mountain View, 1974 photo: SP X2742W on Cordelia Hill, 1966, loco went on to a decade pulling The Permanente Local in 1970 Alien Visitors to San Jose
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See also our Maps & Timetable Pages; Misc. Documents Page Rosters, Diagrams, Drawings & Company Docs New 7-23-25: (SP) Station or Depot? You make call - a final SP word re proper terminology C.S.Passenger Car Diagrams book, circa 1930 - Shasta Div. Archives: 204 pages!!! Passenger Car Clearance Diagrams 1938-42 - seven heavyweight and lightweight xcars - Shasta div. Archives SP "Memorandum on Majors Train Accidents" - 1958 historical list that may be missing a "The Commutes" Del Monte Commute Train...
SP's Commute Centennial 1864-1964 - public relations pamphlet PDF Final SP Peninsula Commute Fleet Roster - 1980 The Last Steam-Powered Peninsula Commute (you say 1957? Wrong!) Mail & Express Coast Daylight Gallery Shasta Division Local Ticket Rate Chart, 12-17-1887 - Note that Black Butte was originally called Acme. Oregon Short Line 4-6-2 #800 on train #20, Roseburg, Oregon, ca. 1910-1913 New 3-12-2025: SP/NP passenger trains race to reach passing point last; 1910 news article
2nd-to-last SP steam excursion New 3-12-2025: Stormy sailing for SP competitor LASSCO in 1932: waining days for once-dominant streamshop co. |
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MW equipment and folks pages, including Southern Pacific Snow Service Last SP Standard Gauge Steam Revenue Freight Train, 12-30-57 The passing of the 40 ft. boxcar SP freight equipment in manufacturers' ads: |
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Southern Pacific's Coast Line (1994), Southern Pacific's Coast Line Pictorial (1999) and Southern Pacific's Western Division (2003), by dedicated SP historian and man-of-many-talents John R. Signor (Signature Press, pub.); much info on Wx4 is gleaned from his writings. All are in print. Southern Pacific Bay Area Steam, by Harre W. Demorrow (Chatham Publishing, 1979; out of print); a fine picture bookwith many early photos, including ferries and NWP. |
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print); Wx4 depends heavily upon this excellent resource on all Santa Clara Valley railroads (excluding electric). Tracks, Tires and Wires, by Charles S. McCaleb (Inreurban Press, 1981, out of print); a thorough When Steam Ran in the Streets of San Francisco, by Walter Rice & Emiliano Echeverria Peninsula Service, by Fred A. Stindt (The Wesstern Railroader, Issue No. 213, July 1957; |
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