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After final applications were made to the locomotive, the restoration crew moved No. 2467 to Sacramento, where it attended Railfair ‘99 at the California State Railroad Museum (CSRM). [8] [9] Once the fair was over, No. 2467 was towed to the Golden Gate Railroad Museum (GGRM), which owns another SP P-8 No. 2472) at the Hunters Point shipyard ...
Orland, California: 2914: TW-8 4-8-0: Bakersfield, California: 3025: A-3 4-4-2: Static display, Travel Town Museum, Los Angeles, California 3420: C-19 2-8-0: Stored at Phelps Dodge copper refinery, El Paso, Texas. Last run 1986. Needs boiler work to be FRA legal for running. Owned by El Paso Historic Board. 4294: AC-12: 4-8-8-2: Static display ...
Southern Pacific #8 is a 4-6-0 narrow-gauge steam locomotive, built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in August 1907. It was originally built for the Nevada–California–Oregon Railway as their second #8, and was sold to Southern Pacific in 1929. She spent the rest of its career hauling passengers and freight along Southern Pacific's Keeler Branch.
The P-8 locomotives had thrived until the larger, more powerful Mt-class of 4-8-2s were delivered in the late 1920s. Most of the P-8s were then transferred further west for service between Oakland, California and Sacramento, California, along with the demanding Peninsula Commute services between San Francisco, California and San Jose ...
The West Oakland Yards are a rail yard facility in West Oakland, Oakland, California, in the United States. Formerly a major facility for the Southern Pacific Railroad, the yards have been operated by Union Pacific Railroad since 1996. Under SP, the yards were home to a variety of railroad facilities, including a signal shop [1] and a ...
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Southern Pacific 4294 is a class "AC-12" 4-8-8-2 cab-forward–type steam locomotive that was owned and operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP). It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1944 and was used hauling SP's trains over the Sierra Nevada, often working on Donner Pass in California.
In 1954, a new narrow-gauge General Electric diesel locomotive was purchased as Southern Pacific No. 1 to replace Nos. 8 and 18, resulting in the two steam locomotives retiring soon. No. 8 was donated to the City of Sparks, Nevada, while No. 18 was donated to the City of Independence, California. No. 9 was the last SP narrow-gauge steam ...