Way to catch the Wig Wag in action. I only ever saw it active one time in the 90s when a train was parked all across those cross streets.

That was enjoyable. Music 🎶

I see myself at Santa Fe depot!

what’s that sound 0:36

I remember day 1 when the UP i.e. the Evil Empire took over. The first thing was the weed weasels came into the SP facilities and threw away anything that said SP..1998 will live in infamy

Lovely old colour pics from a long gone world. Thanks.

4:23

Up 844 east back to winnemuca NV & elko NV, ogden ut

Up 844 october 4th-26th 2012 Sacramento CA to Houston tx

Up 844 east towards back to ogden UT returns for evanston WY south to Kansas city & fort worth TX from Texas & pacific railroad 100th anniversary special birthday 1912-2022 for final run to Houston tx

Up 844's cracked whistle used in 2008-2011 btw big Boy's 2011 Whistle

Up 844 gives a replacement Whistle installed from do 3800's Hancock 3 chime

Up 844 blows it's service Whistle used in 2020-2024

Up 844's new Voice from berrybrook pacific railroad Challenger on the fireman's side used in 2014-2015

Up 844 puxando vagões exclusivos pra mulheres especiais 6hs 9hs 17hs 20hs segunda á sexta sábado e domingo feriados nacionais

Up 844 está soprando o atualmente apito igual a voz do meu Papai

10:43

While the sp may be gone we’ll never forget it and the innovation it planted. And it’s legacy still lives on. In old videos, in museums and on our layouts.

0:33-2:54 "Monkey and the Engineer" by Grateful Dead

Chances are you may have caught one of the trains I was running. And the brakeman, I would have said “since you are telling people what not to do, you shouldn’t be riding the car like that!”

turn your crap music off

Great video, nice to see the trains before the age of people spraying paint on the sides of the cars. Could not imagine cars and trucks being hauled on open racks today. Interesting to see depot photos with only american car models visible. What a difference 40 years makes and not necessarily for the better.

My father was the SP sales agent in Modesto from 1964 to ‘70. He had the small office on the left side of the depot looking from the tracks. I remember all these trains!

WP Lives, . . . .

Some 2nd generation diesel power, although largely unchanged from GE's original 1949 builds.

i really loved it

Just found this and I like it 👍👍

Cool I like seeing my favorite railroad Southern Pacific in the 1960s even though I don’t remember it still cool though

Lovely! Seems like the _Virginia City_ is currently still Amtrak certified *and* for sale ~$800k ... (come on Powerball ticket!)

Meeker

Good to hear Ken Seekers voice and see a bunch of hair on everyone.

That was one of the best photo slide shows of the WP I’ve ever seen… Say, did anyone notice the difference between the UP painted 798 & 799? The UP nose herald on 799 is over the recessed area where the nose light used to be. But the 798 has the herald much lower… (JustMy2¢)

Good stuff! 🚂 🔥

Are you planning to catch UP 4014 Big Boy when it goes to Roseville this year? Rockbasso?

Great video my friend 🙂🙂

WOW !!! GREAT PRENTATION.

10:09 Squirt's Whistle Dixon & Friends

Janice templeton as up challenger 3985

Up challenger 3985's 2000s whistle

Up 3985 and 1983

Up challenger 3985 puxando vagões exclusivos para mulheres especiais 6hs às 9hs às 17hs às 20hs segunda à sexta sábado á domingo feriados nacionais

Up challenger 3985 high speeds fast

Up challenger 3985 sept 2005

Great slide show, the pic of the Great Northern F45, I probably saw this on a run thru to Oakland. I remember seeing a F45 and SP&S Alco thru Hayward once.

Very enjoyable. The slide-style presentation allows us to appreciate both the trains and the surroundings in detail. Weird to think that those 'F' models were still (barely) roaming around out west while I was in high school. Shoulda made a road trip! Enjoyed the music too!

Great times I was covering it all down here in LA love to see the vids!

I have both volumes of Ken's books. I bought them when they first came out. A lot of folks have offered to "take them off my hands" But they are not for sale. I am a member of the FRRS and I am on the operating crew at Portola.

Trixie pranks np 3 chime and star brass 5 chime whistle 8:56 9:19

very pleasant background music. TY

About 22:20,one of the Zephyrettes is listed as Deb Baer-- anybody know if she had a brother named Kirk, who also worked for WP? Asking,because I remember that name from an old TRAINS magazine,about the Final Four F units on WP, he was a engineer.