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The Union Pacific heritage fleet includes commemorative and historic equipment owned by the Union Pacific Railroad.The fleet currently consists of two historic steam locomotives, three historic diesel locomotives, seventeen modern diesel locomotives in historic or commemorative paint schemes and nearly four dozen passenger cars used on office car specials and excursion trains.
The South Bay Historical Railroad Society is located in Santa Clara, California and operates the Edward Peterman Museum of Railroad History in the Santa Clara Depot, as well as the Santa Clara Tower and two other buildings. [3] The depot is the oldest train station on the west coast.
Union Pacific 942 EMD E8A: Diesel-Electric Locomotive Electro-Motive Division: 1953 Operational Union Pacific Railroad, Regional Transportation Authority, METRA. Used by RTA and later METRA for commuter rail service, rebuilt and designated E8Am in 1970s. Purchased in 1997. Restored from 2010-2012. Southern Pacific 3100 GE U25Be: Diesel-Electric ...
The historic depot is located in the Core district of downtown San Diego and is still an active transportation center, providing services to Amtrak California intercity trains, Coaster commuter rail trains, the San Diego Trolley, and the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System bus system.
The museum's renovation of the depot won an award from San Diego's historic preservation society, Save Our Heritage Organization. [13] Next to the depot is a display train consisting of saddletank steam locomotive 0-6-0ST Mojave Northern Railroad #3, a Pacific Fruit Express reefer car, and a Southern Pacific Railroad caboose.
Also located at Ferrum is a wye (still connected) and maintenance equipment shed. The interchange yard parallels the present-day Union Pacific Railroad Yuma Subdivision main line, the main transcontinental railroad line between California and Texas. The main track heading to Eagle Mountain starts at the east end of the yard.
This opening of a transcontinental railroad to the Pacific coast, as envisioned by the 1862 Pacific Railroad Act, came four months after the Central Pacific and Union Pacific met at Promontory Summit, Utah. On November 8, 1869, the intended western terminus opened at the Oakland Long Wharf, from which ferries connected to San Francisco. These ...
The station has three historic depots on site: one built in 1923 by the Union Pacific Railroad, [8] another built in 1930 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, [7] [9] and the third used by the Pacific Electric starting in 1918. [10] [11] The two mainline depots are on the National Register of Historic Places. [8] [9]