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Note: This is a different Southern Pacific Railroad company from the one referred to above. March 21, 1872 - The Southern Pacific is purchased. March 30 - Southern Trans-Continental Railway Company is purchased. 1872 - Thomas A. Scott, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, becomes president of the Texas & Pacific. May 2, 1872 - an Act of ...
It is the only surviving example of the Texas and Pacific Railway's (T&P) class I-1AR 2-10-4 "Texas" type locomotives. Built by the Lima Locomotive Works in June 1927, No. 610 and its class were based on Lima's prototype "Super Power" 2-8-4 design, and the T&P rostered them to pull fast and heavy freight trains.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe No. 1316 is a preserved 1309 class 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1911 for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It was frequently used for pulling fast passenger trains in Texas, until it was reassigned to freight service in the late 1940s.
The Texas and Pacific Railway started to experience floodwaters from the Red River on their Louisiana line east of Shreveport. At this time, the T&P was already dieselized . [ 3 ] The diesel locomotives were not able to carry trains through the flood waters due to the water killing the traction motors.
Southern Pacific 786 is a preserved 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotive that was constructed at the American Locomotive Company's Brooks Works in New York.It was used to pull mainline freight trains by the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Railroad, until it was removed from service in 1955, and it was donated to the city of Austin, Texas the following year.
Locomotive Build date Builder Model Former operators Retire date Disposition Location Notes References Southern Pacific 3194 May 1954 Electro-Motive Division (EMD) GP9R Texas and New Orleans Railroad; Southern Pacific Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; March 26, 1997 Operational Golden Gate Railroad Museum in Schellville, California [1]
Oldest preserved steam locomotive of the Union Pacific Railroad. CA-12 1744: Steam 2-6-0 M-6 1901 built by BLW Niles Canyon Railway, Sunol, California: The Pacific Locomotive Association purchased and began the restoration to bring No. 1744 back to life on the Niles Canyon Railway. CA-12.5 Southern Pacific 5623: Niles Canyon Railway, Sunol ...
Static display, Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Portola, California 5274: Baldwin AS-616 Static display, Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Portola, California 5399: EMD SD9/SD9E: Operational, Albany and Eastern Railroad, Lebanon, Oregon Ex-SP #4364 5472: EMD SD9/SD9E: Operational, Niles Canyon Railway, Sunol, California Ex-SP #4423 5623: EMD ...