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| Title: |
SP Train No. 2 |
| Description: |
This classic Southern Pacific publicity photo of Train No. 2, the eastbound SUNSET LIMITED, was taken on the trestle over Bayou Ramos, two miles east of Morgan City, Louisiana. (approximate date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1951 Upload Date: 5/18/2022 10:41:08 AM |
| Location: |
Ramos, LA |
| Author: |
Southern Pacific photo |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP PA(PA1) TNO PA(PA1) |
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438 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Espee PA Unit |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific Alco PA unit - from the collection of Bill Baughman |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1961 Upload Date: 3/2/2020 8:36:39 PM |
| Location: |
Tucumcari, NM |
| Author: |
Paul Maciulewicz |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station |
| Locomotives: |
SP PA(PA1) |
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933 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP Train No. 2 |
| Description: |
Nearly-new Alcos 200A and 200B bring train No. 2, the eastbound SUNSET, across South Claiborne Avenue, just a couple of minutes from their destination at the Illinois Central's Union Station. On the extreme left is the PANAMA LIMITED's observation car, in the coach yard. This is a somewhat unusual photo of the SUNSET with diesel power and mostly heavyweight cars. The next year, these Alcos would be renumbered 200 and 201, and the train would be completely reequipped with new cars from the Budd Co. (approximate date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1949 Upload Date: 9/13/2016 5:08:33 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
William Harry photo |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SP 200(PA1) TNO 200(PA1) |
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1672 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP Train No. 5 |
| Description: |
SP train No. 5, the westbound ARGONAUT, was preparing to depart from Union Station in New Orleans behind Alco units 202 and 203. At this time, construction was underway on New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, with the new express building going up on the other side of the 202. The two platforms here were built so that IC, SP and MP (GCL) trains could continue to operate while the old station was removed and the new station was completed. (approximate day of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1950 Upload Date: 9/13/2016 5:18:03 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
William Harry photo |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SP 202(PA1) TNO 202(PA1) |
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1161 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP train no. 2 |
| Description: |
In this Southern Pacific publicity photo from the early 1950's, a pair of Alco PA1 units lead the eastbound SUNSET through the West High Curve on the Huey P. Long Bridge. The train would have been about 20 minutes away from its 4:00 P.M. arrival in New Orleans. Because of the position of the bridge, the eastbound train was heading west into the afternoon sun! The 13-car train included a railway post office-express car, a baggage-dormitory car, a 48-seat divided coach, a 44-seat coach, a Pride of Texas coffee shop-tavern-lounge car, two more 44-seat coaches, two 10-roomette/6-double-bedroom sleepers, an Audubon Dining Room car, a French Quarter Lounge car, and two more 10-6 sleepers. (unknown date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1954 Upload Date: 7/26/2020 10:48:23 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Southern Pacific |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SP 202(PA1) TNO 202(PA1) |
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585 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP Train No. 2 |
| Description: |
This publicity photo of the eastbound SUNSET featured a pair of Alco PA1 units led by the 202, with 12 cars. Train No. 2 was in the broad curve between Roanoke and Jennings, in southwestern Louisiana. (unknown date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1954 Upload Date: 7/26/2020 10:50:36 AM |
| Location: |
Jennings, LA |
| Author: |
Southern Pacific |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SP 202(PA1) TNO 202(PA1) |
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867 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP Train No. 5 |
| Description: |
Southern Pacific train No. 5, the westbound ARGONAUT, was making it early afternoon station stop at Lake Charles, Louisiana. No. 5 was powered by PA1 207 and another Alco; and if the train was on tine, the time would have been around 2:30. (approximate date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
2/1/1951 Upload Date: 1/21/2020 8:46:40 PM |
| Location: |
Lake Charles, LA |
| Author: |
William T. Harry photo, J.G. Lachaussee collection |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SP 207(PA1) TNO 207(PA1) |
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1142 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP Train No. 2 |
| Description: |
Alco PA1 unts 208 and 209 were bringing the eastbound SUNSET into its destination at the Illinois Central's Union Station in New Orleans. The engines were originally numbered the 204A and 204B, and the train had recently received new streamline cars. (approximate day of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1951 Upload Date: 9/13/2016 5:53:48 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
William Harry photo |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SP 208(PA1) TNO 208(PA1) |
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1197 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP Train No. 5 |
| Description: |
This Southern Pacific publicity photo from the early 1950's showed train No. 5 – the westbound ARGONAUT – heading across the Huey P. Long Bridge, near the beginning of its 2,000-mile journey to Los Angeles. The ARGONAUT was inaugurated on 24 June 1926 as the secondary train on the Sunset Route, running opposite the SUNSET LIMITED; but it was discontinued during the height of the Great Depression, from April 1932 until May 1936. When this photo was taken, No. 5 left New Orleans at 10:30 A.M. On 7 June 1957 the train was discontinued west of El Paso, then its last remaining sleeper was removed in October 1958 and it became an unnamed New Orleans-Houston local. The last remnant of the ARGONAUT was discontinued in 1963. (unknown date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1954 Upload Date: 7/26/2020 10:46:30 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Southern Pacific |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SP 208(PA1) TNO 208(PA1) |
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1132 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP Train No. 6 |
| Description: |
SP train No. 6, the eastbound ARGONAUT, was rolling through the Illinois Central's Government Yard and across South Claiborne Avenue on its way into Union Station. The 211 had been built a year earlier as the 205B, and was the last of the T&NO's 12 PA1's. When these units were renumbered, they also received a number on their noses. IC SW1 9027 is on the left, outside the railroad's Government Yard roundhouse. Most of the IC property here was acquired for the construction New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal and its related facilities. (approximate day of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1950 Upload Date: 9/13/2016 5:15:15 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
William Harry photo |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SP 211(PA1) TNO 211(PA1) |
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1130 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP Train No 27 The Overland |
| Description: |
James Morley photo |
| Photo Date: |
6/6/1958 Upload Date: 9/25/2021 9:37:38 PM |
| Location: |
Norden, CA |
| Author: |
James Morley |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6037(PA2) SP 5910(PA1) |
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363 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
SP PA1 6006 |
| Description: |
SP PA1 6006, Ogden Utah, October 3, 1958, photographer unknown, Chuck Zeiler collection. Sometimes mistaken for a PA3, a model never built by Alco, this locomotive was built as a PA1 in 1948. Due to renumbering in 1949, my best guess is that 6006 was built as 6005C. The following is from the book, A Centennial Remembrance, by Richard T. Steinbrenner (c.2003, On Track Publishers, ISBN: 0911122-07-9): The SPs Pacific Lines basic acquisition policy of A-B-A sets continued to be followed with the PA-2/PB-2 orders. Alco delivered two sets in August-September 1950. By then the SP was using a new numbering system; the PAs continued in the 6000 series, and the PBs were numbered in the 5900 series. The PA-1/PB-1s numbered in the 6000 A-B-C sequence were renumbered into the new scheme, as were the subsidiaries PA-1 units. The SP came back for two more sets in April 1952, and then, in Alcos last big order for PA/PBs, for two batches, which were delivered in June-July and September-October 1953. The first batch was three sets of the usual A-B-As, but the second batch of 12 units was all PAs, equipped with standard Alco pilots. For most of their careers, the SPs Pacific Lines PA/PBs were assigned to the West Oakland Shops for maintenance although for a while seven of the final units were assigned to Taylor Yard in Los Angeles for Coast Line service to San Francisco. While the PA/PBs also operated on the San Joaquin Division on occasion, their principal assignments were on the Shasta Daylight and Cascade trains between San Francisco-Oakland and Portland, OR, and on the Overland route between Ogden, UT and San Francisco-Oakland. Beginning with the 1952 deliveries, the PA-2s came from Alco without pilots, enabling the SP to apply its own design snowplow pilots, built at the Sacramento Shops. The 1953 units incorporated the Model 244G prime mover, which included the new water-cooled turbochargers (Alco Model 710), and had distinctive stainless steel moldings around the windshields. In the meantime, maintenance costs of the 1948-49 PA-1/PB-1s had become problematic, and from July 1952 to March 1953 the West Oakland Shops replaced all their prime movers with 2250 hp Model 244Ds at the rate of four units per month. With the completion of the program, all the SP units were essentially PA-2/PB-2s. In 1956 the SP undertook a modernization program to encompass its entire PA/PB fleet. The prototypes were six high mileage units, which were stripped down to the frame and truss supports, then sandblasted down to bare metal. With GEs guidance, the SP had designed a new electrical equipment cabinet, greatly modernized and simplified. The new cabinets were preassembled and installed into the frame and truss from overhead. All of the previous wiring that snaked through the underframe was replaced and run in the engineroom overhead in troughs for ease of maintenance. Plug electrical connectors were replaced by screw connector blocks for greater reliability. The control equipment was upgraded and repackaged into compartments that featured greater accessibility. The first unit through was #6021, and by June, a three-unit set was ready for road testing. The Sacramento Shops proceeded to rebuild the entire PA/PB fleet in this manner. Externally, the most obvious effect of the upgrade was the application of Farr-Aire grills to all units that did not already have them (Alco had phased in the application of the Farr-Aire grills on the last order for 18 units to the MP in June-July 1952, which eliminated the PAs signature drip strip and horizontal slatted carbody grill). However, on the SP units, the Farr-Aire grills were not continuous along the side; rather solid panels were fixed between the grill sections. |
| Photo Date: |
10/3/1958 Upload Date: 5/30/2009 12:05:22 PM |
| Location: |
Ogden, UT |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6006(PA1) |
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4458 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Heading East |
| Description: |
SP/UP's City of San Francisco gets started for the East behind a quartet of long-nosed PAs. |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1961 Upload Date: 4/26/2018 6:18:51 PM |
| Location: |
Oakland, CA |
| Author: |
Thomas G. Acheson |
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| Locomotives: |
SP 6006(PA1) |
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756 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP 6022 West #27 San Francisco Overland on Doner Pass |
| Description: |
Randy Curlin Collection |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/1958 Upload Date: 9/1/2020 1:05:29 PM |
| Location: |
Troy, CA |
| Author: |
Randy Curlin Collection |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6022(PA2) SP 6009(PA1) |
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840 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
SP PA-1 6012 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
1/1/1953 Upload Date: 9/19/2021 9:49:07 PM |
| Location: |
Richmond, CA |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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| Locomotives: |
SP 6012(PA1) |
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279 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
City of San Francisco Train #102 blasting by at 90 mph |
| Description: |
Randy Curlin Collection |
| Photo Date: |
2/28/1958 Upload Date: 7/23/2024 5:46:22 AM |
| Location: |
Walerga, CA |
| Author: |
Randy Curlin Collection |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6012(PA1) |
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52 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
SP PA-1 6058 |
| Description: |
Taken by an unknown photographer. |
| Photo Date: |
10/11/1960 Upload Date: 9/18/2022 1:22:15 PM |
| Location: |
Los Angeles, CA |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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| Locomotives: |
SP 6058(PA1) |
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194 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP 6058 |
| Description: |
Al Chione set |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/1962 Upload Date: 8/18/2020 10:13:20 PM |
| Location: |
Glendale, CA |
| Author: |
Al Chione |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6058(PA1) |
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568 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SP 6060 and L&N 791 |
| Description: |
The last Alco PA locomotives which routinely visited New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal were Southern Pacific 6060 and 6066. These units were originally Texas & New Orleans 200B and 205B, then 201 and 211, so they were no strangers to New Orleans. These locos, along with FP7 6462 (former Cotton Belt 306, ex-330), were the regular power on trains 5 and 6 between New Orleans and Houston during their last few years of operation. Nos. 5 and 6 were the last remnants of the ARGONAUT, which had operated all the way to Los Angeles until late 1957. On this morning in April 1963 SP 6060 was parked next to the sand tower at NOUPT, along with Louisville & Nashville E7A 791. The L&N power had just arrived on train 33-99, the combined PIEDMONT-PAN AMERICAN-GULF WIND, while the 6060 was waiting to depart on Train No. 5 at 10:30 a.m. The 6060 was sold to GE as credit for a U25B four months after this photo was taken, and Nos. 5 and 6 were discontinued the next month. The PAN AMERICAN-GULF WIND survived until the advent of Amtrak on 1 May 1971, and L&N 791 was retired in November 1971. That was the PANAMA LIMITED in the coach yard on the right. (approximate date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1963 Upload Date: 3/9/2022 12:41:25 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
unknown |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SP 6060(PA1) LN 791(E7A) |
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450 Comments: 0 |
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