SP 1501 one of the first engines I worked on as a switchman at the Los Angeles Taylor Yard Hump November 1977.
@AllThingsRailroad2 ай бұрын
Wow amazing!
@djtrainman22 ай бұрын
Unfortunately it is no longer running anymore
@Herlongian18 күн бұрын
I’ve been Top end of A yard herder. Also, engineman’s lockerroom herder. I don’t remember if I ever worked the hump. I worked mostly on the LA Brakeman’s extra board but in lean times would go on switchman’s board.
@Herlongian18 күн бұрын
Half the jobs in 1976 off the brakeman’s board seem to be trips to Colton and back. The fun was the Coast run to San Luis Obispo. Or get augmented to the Colton board for Yuma trips or get the local in El Centro.
@Herlongian18 күн бұрын
I don’t remember if I worked on 1501. But did work on many switch engines in the 1500 series.
@tuxedorailfan46305 ай бұрын
1852 and 1801 will not be scrapped. BUGX purchased them for “preservation” to avoid scrapping. Same for 1501.
@hamiltonsullivan65635 ай бұрын
Wait is this true?!!!!
@hamiltonsullivan65635 ай бұрын
Yoooo
@DaMan-jt6dh5 ай бұрын
Matt Monson is the man.
@hamiltonsullivan65635 ай бұрын
@@DaMan-jt6dh agreed
@hamiltonsullivan65635 ай бұрын
Any update on what going to happen to the 1854
@FremontRailMedia2 ай бұрын
"As long as there's USA, SP will haul the freight!"
@CustomerService-ut9tj2 ай бұрын
I grew up in the early 1970s along the Southern Pacific railroad’s Burbank branch. My mother worked for Lockheed and that allowed me to join the LERC model railroad club, which was named the Sierra Southern. The guys would always stop the trains and give my mother timetables when they saw me taking pictures, subsequently, I entered service for the Santa Fe on the Los Angeles Junction Railway in 1993. I’ve spent many years contracting, working as a boomer, which the old heads used to tell me, was a railroad employee who didn’t like being tied down. Ironically, I was contracting on the Portland & Western Railroad when the word came down that the EPA wanted to send a message to the railroads and ordered the old Black Widow GP9 and SD9 blocks drilled so they could never run again. Ironically, I was working the McMinnville switcher job that got the orders to go pick up the old GP9 in Tigard and bring her back to Salem for retirement. It truly is a shame when uneducated people with I’ll-hearts (aka: Democrat’s) gain power, they wield it like petulant children throwing a tantrum. I feel blessed to have grown up in a time when old heads took pride in their work and integrity was not a slogan used by imbeciles…
@marcomuniz5701Ай бұрын
Missed the San Diego and Arizona Railway. GP9 #3873 in SP Blackwidow colors. Still pulls around passenger trains for the museum.
@AllThingsRailroadАй бұрын
@@marcomuniz5701 only counting units in freight revenue.
@doubleutubefan53 күн бұрын
UP 1066 is on local service in Iowa right now. Just seen it today!
@seanpacificrailroad37006 ай бұрын
Love this stuff, SP forever!!! Thanks for sharing 👍 I swear this is the man’s voice from modern marvels.
@AllThingsRailroad6 ай бұрын
No problem!
@David-up4zt2 ай бұрын
I saw 1055 in UP yard in new Braunfels, Texas on accident when going to a train show
@nikdog4195 ай бұрын
This is awesome. In recent years I've come to realise I took for granted seeing SP locomotives as a kid. Now I miss them. There's a Cotton Belt unit (UP 1068) that's made it's way to the Oakland Terminal. For a while I caught regularly working the Milpitas Industrial Lead. Now I just see it occasionally in Oakland on my way into work in SF. Wish it were Southern Pacific labelled. Anyway, it's nice to see that some remain. I wish UP did more than 1 Heritage unit per line.
@RJ-xu2vf5 ай бұрын
Coincidentally, I was just recently taking some photos of locomotives at the Roseville Rail yards and got a shot of the Cotton Belt 1004 unit coupled with a Union Pacific 1419 unit. I was pleased to see it mentioned in this video.
@NGH999995 ай бұрын
I grew up in Creswell, Oregon, in the 1970s, and we got to see both SD9s running locals, as well as long lashups of tunnel motors pulling big manifests along that Siskiyou Line. All with lower-quadrant semaphores along every block. We lived about a mile from the line, and when a freight would rumble through town at night, I could feel the vibrations in my bed. Those were the days.
@wallochdm14 ай бұрын
We used to stay in that crappy tepee hotel in Rice Hill, but it was worth it to hear all that big power head upgrade..all night long.
@michaelgallagher26635 ай бұрын
As A Kid Growing Up InnThe Southern California Area In The 50s/60s, I Remember Just How Clean And Shiny All The UP Units Were. And How All SPs We’re In Black Widow Livery.
@Cnw87015 ай бұрын
When I was a kid growing up in my hometown of Dayton, Ohio, I often saw IORY trackage rights trains on the NS Dayton District that had ex-SP units leading them. That was first exposure to the SP before I soon moved to El Paso, Texas in 2011 when my stepdad was stationed there at Fort Bliss. When I lived in El Paso from 2011-2014, I caught dozens of patched and unpatched ex-SP units, including UP GP40P-2 #1375 and SP GP60 #9721! Years later, I moved back to El Paso in 2021, and I rarely ever see any SP units in SP paint now (considering the current circumstances). It was fun while it lasted, though.
@kimberlyjohnson8685Ай бұрын
3:00 WAMX 4246 doesnt work for the Wisconsin Southern, it currently runs on the Kansas and Oklahoma railroad in South Central Kansas. Just seen it a few weeks ago actually.
@juangarcia-co5ve8 ай бұрын
Southern Pacific was one of the best in the Nation SP standed for special power and I grew up with SP I will always remember them especially the gp9 GP 20s all the geeps and SD40s 50s and 60s And the U Boats And AC44-CW And SW1500s God Bless You 4 doing this video let's be on the right track with Jesus And pray that someday SP and Mo Pac come back to the tracks
@user-hg7no9st2s3 ай бұрын
Made my first trip as engineer on eng. 9200 on coast division SF to OAK TBX wish I had a picture, great loco.
@alabamadistrictrailfan2 ай бұрын
The Alabama Tennessee River Railway (ATN) has a former DRGW #5387 SD40T-2 painted in the SP. Just without the SP lettering or mars light.
@AllThingsRailroad2 ай бұрын
Good to know!
@johnbowyer5519Ай бұрын
I love your videos and it was so nice to see the D&RGW Dirty Dirt Train on the branch line. I grow up in Colorado and my Dad told me story of watching D&DGW Double Heading Steam through Colorado Springs on it way to Denver so you know what I grew up on. I was ok when Rio Grand bought out SP just a little hurt when they decided to go with SP colors, but I always liked SP also. I guess the real KICK IN THE TEETH came when I heard up (yes it's in lower case because that's what I think of up) was going to buy SP and the worst of it is to see the Class lights and the Nose lights plated covered over let alone the big ugly yellow number placards on the cabs. Sorry for ranting on, but I can say one thing there will never be any thing that can every replace the pure business colors of Black and Orange of the Denver & Rio Grande Western.
@AllThingsRailroadАй бұрын
😎👍🏻
@GojiramusPrimeBug012 күн бұрын
It’s cool that some railroads don’t touch the SP lettering
@joshthetrainfan7 ай бұрын
6367 has been repainted and rebuilt into an AC4400CWM and you also forgot about 6236
@NSfan443 ай бұрын
6236 was still running around as of 04/25/23, seen it just north of Victorville on a manifest.
@joshthetrainfan3 ай бұрын
@@NSfan44 Caught the old thing a while back so I can say that is true.
@Dawsonsrailfanadventures746 ай бұрын
GEXR 3054 is sitting at LTEX the B&P traded it in after the tubro blew up
@horizonrail230214 сағат бұрын
HZRX 8600 > UP 2676 > SP 8600 currently running for RMRX out of Denver. HZRX 8614 > UP 2690 > SP8614 currently in TX working HZRX 1501 > FIR 1222 > UP 1165 > SP 2596 currently working East of Cleveland, OH
@DONOLEY12327 күн бұрын
AOK railroad has two sd45 they got from Kyle railroad one in sp colors in OKC switching the auto facility 9330 and 3098
@noahthetrainguy5 ай бұрын
What about the Southern Pacific SD45T-2 in Sacramento,CA at the California State Railroad Museum it’s going to be restored to pull excursions on the Sacramento & Southern Railroad
@AllThingsRailroad5 ай бұрын
Wanted to show units still be used for freight.
@noahthetrainguy5 ай бұрын
@@AllThingsRailroad oh okay
@jeffreymcfadden94033 ай бұрын
I can remember seeing my first SP loco. It was 1976 in OHIO on a Chessie train coupled to a Western Maryland F7A.(The SP was a tunnel motor and the F was in black paint) Someone is getting old.
@XxXGhostXxX4175 ай бұрын
Thanks for taking time to do this.
@AllThingsRailroad5 ай бұрын
no problem
@captaincreditor82934 ай бұрын
I saw GEXR 3054 in MacMillan yard in Toronto, before this video was shot. Great to see a tunnel motor this far north and east.
@tas799726 күн бұрын
Pacific Harbor line has 2 SD40T-2s. Ex SP 5412 and ex SP 8550. Both renumbered to 50 and 51!
@AllThingsRailroad26 күн бұрын
@@tas7997 are 50 & 51 still used?
@tas799726 күн бұрын
I think so.
@tas799725 күн бұрын
@@AllThingsRailroad They were sold!
@volvofl1805 ай бұрын
What I would like to see in to future? UP engines repainted in SP paint..... That would be a hammer......
@AllThingsRailroad5 ай бұрын
lol!
@T128ProductionsАй бұрын
Or possibly with UP lettering? Same would go with the former D&RGW & Cotton Belt units. That would be interesting to see.
@vaca91742 ай бұрын
We have a SP 1996 here in the west colton yard the 1996 for the year UP bought it out
@billyray94Ай бұрын
Man… No Dash 9’s or SD70M’s left. I remember when they were new. Now totally gone.
@Slim_SlidАй бұрын
Not true. The SD70M's with the flared radiators and notched noses with flared radiators are still out there in large numbers. The older and original units are the ones finally getting scrapped and put into storage. The only older SD70M's that won't be tampered with are the 25 SD70M's currently on lease which are actually the former and first EMDX SD70M's (7000-7024) which were intially purchased by CSX until they returned all the units back to EMD. The C44-9W's were in storage for several years but have been steadily returning as C44ACM rebuilds. Those units also will be around for awhile.
@SPSD458853Ай бұрын
they are all repainted most of the 70Ms are still in operation
@billyray94Ай бұрын
@@SPSD458853 respectfully, there are multiple lines of unused third Gen power stored serviceable at Butler Yard.
@TheSPGuy4925 күн бұрын
up 1004 runs in the Roseville yard in California and its been there since 2023
@bradleyjanes2949Ай бұрын
What s great video, and the comments even better, TY😊
@user-wu1ds2sz3w6 ай бұрын
As for what I found most interesting...EVERYTHING !!!!
@AllThingsRailroad6 ай бұрын
🤙🏻
@kevintoler74452 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing, as a longtime SP fan I enjoyed this video. Saw a lot of SD9's running on the NWP
@AllThingsRailroad2 ай бұрын
👍🏻
@raygallegos75055 ай бұрын
I had the pleasure of running some of the locomotives featured in this video. Great memories for me.
@cjbeyer83402 ай бұрын
A great video!! Thanks for sharing this interesting information!!!!
@AllThingsRailroad2 ай бұрын
No problem!!!!
@ZNZDerby2 ай бұрын
GEXR 3054 a SD45T2 which currently is working with the Buffalo & Pittsburgh, 3054 was built in 1975, owned by the SSW before being bought the SP numbered 9392
@AllThingsRailroad2 ай бұрын
Good to know!
@deathdealer_xiii10552 ай бұрын
DGNO 9486 was renumbered to BUGX 7486
@AllThingsRailroad2 ай бұрын
Good to know👍🏻
@cnhaltonsub6 ай бұрын
3054 is the former 9392 and was retired 2-3 years ago per a friend of mine
@AllThingsRailroad6 ай бұрын
Good to know
@SolidCold4 ай бұрын
Very well put together video, learned a lot. Just one correction: UP 6367 was actually rebuilt and repainted in 2022 so there's only4 AC44s left in SP paint. Other than that it's a great video!
@BalloonBugle88Ай бұрын
Forgot UP 6236 and Albany and eastern 5399
@RogueRail4 ай бұрын
I’m here because I wanted to know if Cotton Belt 9389’s still around. I looked through some photos on Railroad Picture Archive to see see if there were any present day photos of the engine, but all I can find are photos of the engine in its Bicentennial colors through the 70s to one photo of it painted back to regular Southern Pacific/Cotten Belt colors in 1985. Sadly, I’ve just discovered that 9389 was scrapped after being involved in an accident on March 24th 1991. A few years ago before the accident, Cotten Belt 8993 was renumbered as Southern Pacific 6833 when it was rebuilt in the railroad’s GRIP Program in 1988.
@SP4449Railfan2 ай бұрын
Great video! Could you do a video on how many surviving Southern Pacific diesel locomotives there are at heritage railroads?
@RailfanSam5 ай бұрын
6378 is currently in a deadline in Portland Oregon after it blew a piston
@Amayas_G7 ай бұрын
Gonna have to see this series for other fallen flags
@mlebrooksАй бұрын
Thank you so good
@AllThingsRailroadАй бұрын
@@mlebrooks 🙏🏻
@Trains-and-RailroadsАй бұрын
Well done.
@AllThingsRailroadАй бұрын
@@Trains-and-Railroads much appreciated🙏🏻
@graemeceballos2655 ай бұрын
Thanks for using my photo at 4:25
@TrainMedia00Ай бұрын
I saw (Union Pacific) Southern Pacific number 1055 at the Flatonia TX.
@AGSGuy2 ай бұрын
ATN (Alabama Tennessee River Railroad) out of Gadsden, AL operates 5387 (SD40T-2 originally DRGW) and 7371 (SD40R) regularly.
@AllThingsRailroad2 ай бұрын
Nice good to know!
@AGSGuy2 ай бұрын
@AllThingsRailroad Update. Another SP motor arrived on the property today in the form of a SD40M-2. SP 9126 > SP 7524 > CEFX 3123 > OMLX 3123 > OMLX 408
@Texasrailfan90215 ай бұрын
Southern Pacific Roll On Roll on Forever Never Forget The Southern Pacific!
@DaMan-jt6dh5 ай бұрын
My blood is colored in Daylight Livery. The SP will always Live.
@user-lq4mo8dw1p4 ай бұрын
The SD40T-2 getting transferred as well as the SD40Ms i think went to Brasil ....i recognize the SD40T-2 im pretty sure it was loaded on a ship....
@suppylarue2203 ай бұрын
view some of the Brazilian railfan sites and you can see them in action retrucked to BB-BB.
@user-lq4mo8dw1p3 ай бұрын
@@suppylarue220 yes, however ALL Rumo has kept them as SDs.
@gordonkennaway38473 ай бұрын
Fantastic, thanks for posting! 👍
@jmwloup5110Ай бұрын
SPRint still lives on
@erict52343 ай бұрын
1158 was renumbered when the UP needed its original number (1943) for its military heritage sd70ace...
@MrDgwphotos6 ай бұрын
I'm surprised there are any OTHER Kodachrome engines still in that scheme other than the one at the museum at Portola.
@AllThingsRailroad6 ай бұрын
Me too
@michaelball7607 ай бұрын
Ive worked for Trona railway for 19 years so far 👍
@AllThingsRailroad7 ай бұрын
Awesome, how do you like it there?
@michaelball7607 ай бұрын
@AllThingsRailroad it's OK, ive had family working for the TRC since the 1930's. It's definitely a historical place that has played a roll in supplying huge companies with raw materials for their products to helping win world wars. I can definitely say I can't wait until retirement though 😆
@AllThingsRailroad7 ай бұрын
Good deal and yeah I think all Railroaders cant wait for retirement lol!@@michaelball760
@sernajrlouis4 ай бұрын
Cool video and channel just subscribed
@ulrichskaarsgard78484 ай бұрын
I'd love to know if SP 7373, a sd40 is still around. I modeled that unit after seeing it up close at Tehachapi loop many years ago.
@user-lq4mo8dw1p4 ай бұрын
Try scooping the Railways of Brasil ....2 were rebuilt with GE trucks and 3 to BB status....others were used for parts ....
@SPSteve2 ай бұрын
Come on UP, put some fresh SP paint on these locomotives and keep them working as SP/SSW. Bring an SP painted Geep to work my area in Goodyear, Arizona. Git 'er done, thanks!
@AllThingsRailroad2 ай бұрын
👍🏻
@railace38154 ай бұрын
I think IORY 9500 is BUGX 7400. 9500’s original number was 7400, so IORY 9500 likely was remembered to its original SP number. According to RRPicturearchives, 9486 is now BUGX 7486.
@BNSFrailfan012 ай бұрын
UP 6367 has been rebuilt, KYLE 9330 has been scrapped, and WAMX 4246 works for the Kansas & Oklahoma not the Wisconsin & Southern. Just a few corrections
@AllThingsRailroad2 ай бұрын
👍🏻
@BNSFrailfan0125 күн бұрын
I saw UP 1066 leading a local a few weeks ago, you’re welcome to use my shot in a future video if you’d like.
@AllThingsRailroad23 күн бұрын
@@BNSFrailfan01 awesome thank you.
@BNSFrailfan0110 күн бұрын
@@AllThingsRailroad just saw WAMX 4246 leading a few days ago too. I love seeing these old SP units kicking around no matter what condition they’re in
@user-px8wk9tc5c2 ай бұрын
It would be nice if Union Pacific would repaint 3 maybe 4 of the 15 Southern Pacific locomotives in its original Southern Pacific colors and give one of them to Traveltown in Griffith Pack in Los Angeles, another to the Orange Empireailroad museum in Perrin, California, another or the Pacific Southwest railroad museum in Campo,California and one to the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento if they didn’t scrap or sold them.
@johnbowyer5519Ай бұрын
Sorry it will never happen, up is to cheap and money hungry to do that....................
@2quintly2 ай бұрын
Interesting, . . . .
@keithwilkins5183 ай бұрын
Awesome
@Mauscmkwk2 ай бұрын
6:13 didn’t they just announced that is has been preserved?
@josephskuse91154 ай бұрын
There is a SP Kodachrome unit in Trona CA.
@Mildcat7432 ай бұрын
You SP guys are spoiled, there's only one CNW unit still kicking around, UP 6706 I believe.
@AllThingsRailroad2 ай бұрын
Crazy how the SP has fared after all these years.
@liamcooper52028 ай бұрын
Im sorry... scrap a black widow sd9.... im sure a museum will gladly take it.
@dafrog555 ай бұрын
IORY 9500 went with 9400. If you can find where 9400 went (probably Lordstown to LTEX or wherever IORY 4072 went)
@easterniowarailfan71682 ай бұрын
can you do one of these with CNW units?
@AllThingsRailroad2 ай бұрын
That would be a good video!
@NS_1065_Productions26 күн бұрын
I've seen 1413. And holy moly it's covered in graffiti
@AllThingsRailroad26 күн бұрын
@@NS_1065_Productions that’s what happens to any unit that sniffs LA lol🤦🏻♂️
@NS_1065_Productions25 күн бұрын
yup. Luckily it stays in el centro. I haven’t seen any taggers there
@Cowlitzperson7 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, recently, port of Tillamook Bay Railroad ex southern Pacific sd9 4406 got scrapped
@alkut5 ай бұрын
There is one GP9 in Campo Ca. Museum
@WestCoastRailroadProductionsАй бұрын
Are you counting tourist railroads too? if so then there are a few that you missed and i can list them
@AllThingsRailroadАй бұрын
@@WestCoastRailroadProductions nope! Freight revenue only
@WestCoastRailroadProductionsАй бұрын
@@AllThingsRailroad Oh alright
@patiodevias3 ай бұрын
Where did you get the video of SP 1413 and UP 799?
@ohioandnortheastern3 ай бұрын
What about persevered units?
@TexasandOklahomaRailfanning4 ай бұрын
DGNO 9486 is BUGX 7486
@brianvalley52235 ай бұрын
What about yard slugs?
@DRRP8 ай бұрын
3054s turbo blew and was sold to a locomotive dealer in 2020
@AllThingsRailroad8 ай бұрын
Darn, thanks for the info👍🏻
@Cnw87015 ай бұрын
Do you use an AI voice for your videos? Edit: I think the "shortline section" answered my question! 😂
@jonathanlarathetrainguy77882 ай бұрын
Where’s UP 6236 ???
@eccotheorca77452 ай бұрын
you forgot UP 1015
@user-lq4mo8dw1p4 ай бұрын
Most SD40T-2 models as well as 1 SD45T-2 went to America Latina Logistica....alot of others went to FCA and rebuilt to BB40 status....there was 2 B30-7 models made into BBs running around in SP paint but i think were repainted in 2017....ALL is now rumo were most SD40T-2 models still run .....fca is now VL! But they are retiring BB40t-2s....