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SP 8489
Title:  SP 8489
Description:  Circa 1980
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 5/10/2008 3:01:23 AM
Location:  Industry, CA
Author:  John Huey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8489(SD40T-2) LN 3012(GP40) SSW 9268(SD45T-2)
Views:  1131   Comments: 0
SP 8489
Title:  SP 8489
Description:  These two units await the next call in Roseville, CA. 8489 sports the short-lived "speed lettering" logo.
Photo Date:  11/1/1997  Upload Date: 7/7/2012 1:40:29 PM
Location:  Roseville, CA
Author:  Mark Forbes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8489(SD40T-2)
Views:  677   Comments: 0
SP 8490 and BN 8106 Westbound
Title:  SP 8490 and BN 8106 Westbound
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/1984  Upload Date: 11/30/2009 5:26:47 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Bob Zwiers
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8490(SD40T-2) BN 8106(SD40-2)
Views:  874   Comments: 0
SP 8490 Leads Amtrak No. 1
Title:  SP 8490 Leads Amtrak No. 1
Description:  SP SD40T-2 8490 leads Amtrak train No. 1, the westbound Sunset Limited. The train is accelerating nicely as it approaches Live Oak Boulevard in Waggaman, LA just west of Avondale. The SP locomotive was added to the train because an SP office car is on the rear of the train - 2-3-1990 - C.M.Palmieri Photo.
Photo Date:  2/3/1990  Upload Date: 7/24/2018 5:38:36 PM
Location:  Waggaman, LA
Author:  Christopher Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8490(SD40T-2)
Views:  833   Comments: 0
SP 8490 Leads Amtrak No. 1
Title:  SP 8490 Leads Amtrak No. 1
Description:  SP SD40T-2 8490 leads Amtrak train No. 1, the westbound Sunset Limited. The train is accelerating nicely as it approaches Live Oak Boulevard in Waggaman, LA just west of Avondale. The SP locomotive was added to the train because SP office car 99 is on the rear of the train - 2-3-1990 - C.M.Palmieri Photo.
Photo Date:  2/3/1990  Upload Date: 7/24/2018 6:56:36 PM
Location:  Waggaman, LA
Author:  Christopher Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8490(SD40T-2) AMTK 252(F40PHR) AMTK 248(F40PHR)
Views:  1564   Comments: 1
SP 8490 Leads Amtrak No. 1
Title:  SP 8490 Leads Amtrak No. 1
Description:  SP SD40T-2 8490 leads Amtrak train No. 1, the westbound Sunset Limited. The train is accelerating nicely as it crosses Live Oak Boulevard in Waggaman, LA just west of Avondale. The SP locomotive was added to the train because an SP office car is on the rear of the train - 2-3-1990 - C.M.Palmieri Photo.
Photo Date:  2/3/1990  Upload Date: 9/9/2018 5:02:53 PM
Location:  Waggaman, LA
Author:  Christopher Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8490(SD40T-2) AMTK 252(F40PHR) AMTK 248(F40PHR)
Views:  1451   Comments: 1
SP 5100 and SP 8490
Title:  SP 5100 and SP 8490
Description:  A B23-7 and SD40T-2 on their side following a collision with a tractor trailer rig carrying steel wire.
Photo Date:  6/24/1991  Upload Date: 6/5/2007 10:51:49 PM
Location:  Proctor, AR
Author:  Kenneth Young
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 5100(B23-7) SP 8490(SD40T-2)
Views:  1692   Comments: 0
SP 7294, SP 5100 and SP 8490
Title:  SP 7294, SP 5100 and SP 8490
Description:  View from Hwy 79 crossing showing all three locomotives and flats. SP 7294 was new.
Photo Date:  6/24/1991  Upload Date: 6/5/2007 10:51:51 PM
Location:  Proctor, AR
Author:  Kenneth Young
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7294(GP40M-2) SP 5100(B23-7) SP 8490(SD40T-2)
Views:  2078   Comments: 2
SP 8490
Title:  SP 8490
Description:  Rare shot of bottom of a tunnel motor. Note the entangled steel wire under the lead HTC truck.
Photo Date:  6/24/1991  Upload Date: 6/5/2007 10:51:53 PM
Location:  Proctor, AR
Author:  Kenneth Young
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8490(SD40T-2)
Views:  1174   Comments: 0
SP 8490
Title:  SP 8490
Description:  Bottom view of lead and second locomotive. Grade crossing is in the background. Track has already been replaced.
Photo Date:  6/24/1991  Upload Date: 6/5/2007 10:51:53 PM
Location:  Proctor, AR
Author:  Kenneth Young
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8490(SD40T-2) SP 5100(B23-7)
Views:  1395   Comments: 0
SP 8490
Title:  SP 8490
Description:  Lead unit resting on its side near some wrecked intermodal flats. Notice the steel wire on the nose.
Photo Date:  6/24/1991  Upload Date: 6/5/2007 10:51:54 PM
Location:  Proctor, AR
Author:  Kenneth Young
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8490(SD40T-2)
Views:  1421   Comments: 0
SP 8491 West PTCIM
Title:  SP 8491 West PTCIM
Description:  Adam Clegg photo
Photo Date:  3/14/1986  Upload Date: 9/8/2023 11:31:19 PM
Location:  Chico, CA
Author:  Adam Clegg
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8491(SD40T-2)
Views:  118   Comments: 1
Northbound manifest behind 10 units
Title:  Northbound manifest behind 10 units
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/5/1994  Upload Date: 11/23/2008 2:27:57 PM
Location:  Sedalia, CO
Author:  Paul Leach
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8491(SD40T-2)
Views:  465   Comments: 0
SP Power
Title:  SP Power
Description:  Westbound SP SD40T-2 8492 and an SD45 are stopped on the New Orleans Public Belt at the east end of the Huey P. Long Bridge, waiting for clearance to cross the bridge.
Photo Date:  7/19/1996  Upload Date: 7/18/2009 1:01:25 PM
Location:  Jefferson, LA
Author:  William Lang
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8492(SD40T-2)
Views:  653   Comments: 0
Transistion
Title:  Transistion
Description:  UP 3953 and soon to be UP, SP8492
Photo Date:  7/19/1996  Upload Date: 12/4/2009 10:07:24 AM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  William Lang
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8492(SD40T-2) UP 3953(SD40-2)
Views:  764   Comments: 1
Southern Pacific's Salt Lake Aity-Chicago Manifest,Vineyard,Utah June 20.1997.
Title:  Southern Pacific's Salt Lake Aity-Chicago Manifest,Vineyard,Utah June 20.1997.
Description:  Southern Pacific's (Union Pacific) M-ROCH rolls east at Vineyard,Utah passing a waiting westbound coal train on the former D&RGW Mainline. Vineyard was officially made a town in 1989. This train$will soon be climbing Soldier Summit and Colorado's Tennessee Pass. In just over a months time, M-ROCH would disappear from D&RGW Rails as UP would reroute most through traffic to the Overland Route.
Photo Date:  6/20/1997  Upload Date: 8/27/2009 1:58:42 AM
Location:  Orem, UT
Author:  Quinn Clegg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8492(SD40T-2) UP 3425(SD40-2) SP 9729(GP60)
Views:  603   Comments: 0
SP 8492 working for the aliens
Title:  SP 8492 working for the aliens
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/1/2000  Upload Date: 3/2/2013 8:15:08 PM
Location:  Tallahassee, FL
Author:  G Gerard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8492(SD40T-2)
Views:  350   Comments: 0
SP 8492
Title:  SP 8492
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/4/2005  Upload Date: 4/7/2006 6:42:11 PM
Location:  Red Rock, AZ
Author:  Eric Rodriguez
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8492(SD40T-2)
Views:  377   Comments: 0
NS A56
Title:  NS A56
Description:  NS A56 moving through Tuscaloosa yard with an old SP tunnel motor
Photo Date:  3/7/2007  Upload Date: 3/7/2007 8:06:03 PM
Location:  Tuscaloosa, AL
Author:  Rick D
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3192(SD40) GECX 8492(SD40T-2) SP 8492(SD40T-2) NS 5161(GP38-2)
Views:  1144   Comments: 1
GECX 8492
Title:  GECX 8492
Description:  Quite a few bloody noses......
Photo Date:  5/4/2008  Upload Date: 2/11/2017 9:56:05 PM
Location:  Mitchell, IL
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GECX 8492(SD40T-2) SP 8492(SD40T-2)
Views:  425   Comments: 2
UP 3024 running the sugar beets
Title:  UP 3024 running the sugar beets
Description:  Don Jewell photo
Photo Date:  4/30/1978  Upload Date: 5/28/2020 3:00:57 AM
Location:  Oakland, CA
Author:  Don Jewell
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3024(SD40) SP 8493(SD40T-2)
Views:  384   Comments: 1
SP #8493
Title:  SP #8493
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Setting at the SP/Cotton Belt engine terminal in K.C., Kansas.
Photo Date:  6/9/1983  Upload Date: 6/7/2023 10:06:05 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 8493(SD40T-2)
Views:  165   Comments: 0
Piece of the Rock
Title:  Piece of the Rock
Description:  Just before the Rock Island went under in 1980, SP acquired the Golden State Route east of Santa Rosa NM, where ownership had changed from SP to Rock island. Along with that, they got RI's trackage rights into Kansas City over UP from Topeka. Heres one of the SPs trains on Rock Island trackage rights on the last leg into KC behind a trio of tunnel motors.
Photo Date:  2/19/1986  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 2:35:02 AM
Location:  Bonner Springs, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8493(SD40T-2)
Views:  274   Comments: 0
DRGW 3121
Title:  DRGW 3121
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1992  Upload Date: 10/11/2017 2:30:26 AM
Location:  Fields [Lane], OR
Author:  Michael Cameron
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 3121(GP40-2) SP 8493(SD40T-2)
Views:  285   Comments: 1
SP 8494
Title:  SP 8494
Description:  This cloudy March Tuesday finds SP 8494 parked at the west end of the COI yard.
Photo Date:  3/21/1978  Upload Date: 11/13/2023 8:39:49 AM
Location:  City of Industry, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 8494(SD40T-2)
Views:  217   Comments: 0
SP 8494
Title:  SP 8494
Description:  Rear view of SP 8494.
Photo Date:  3/21/1978  Upload Date: 11/13/2023 8:40:40 AM
Location:  City of Industry, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 8494(SD40T-2)
Views:  199   Comments: 0
Standing Room Only
Title:  Standing Room Only
Description:  All spots are taken at the SP engine terminal in Tucson, Arizona 1980 (photo date approximate)
Photo Date:  12/1/1980  Upload Date: 8/17/2011 11:18:38 PM
Location:  Tucson, AZ
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8494(SD40T-2) SP 6302(GP35R) SP 6307(GP35R)
Views:  1333   Comments: 4
SP 8494--SD40T-2
Title:  SP 8494--SD40T-2
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/14/1993  Upload Date: 8/10/2010 11:23:06 PM
Location:  Topeka, KS
Author:  Walt Evans
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8494(SD40T-2)
Views:  1008   Comments: 0
SP 8494 E/B
Title:  SP 8494 E/B
Description:  SP eastbound gets the roll by the conductor on SP 9391, as soon as SP 8623 had backed up the ATSF interchange track
Photo Date:  12/23/1995  Upload Date: 3/2/2012 2:38:49 PM
Location:  Vaughn, NM
Author:  Lauren Scrafford
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8494(SD40T-2) () SP 8646(SD40M-2) SP 8540(SD40T-2) EMDX 811(GP38-2) GECX 3003(C30-S7)
Views:  1095   Comments: 0
SP 8494 E/B
Title:  SP 8494 E/B
Description:  SP 8494 E/B mixed freight at Vaughn crossing under the ATSF.
Photo Date:  12/23/1995  Upload Date: 12/9/2021 5:23:26 PM
Location:  Vaughn, NM
Author:  Lauren Scrafford
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,RollingStock,Tunnel,Signal,Track,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8494(SD40T-2) () SP 8646(SD40M-2) SP 8540(SD40T-2) EMDX 811(GP38-2) GECX 3003(C30-S7)
Views:  452   Comments: 0
SP 8494
Title:  SP 8494
Description:  A trio of SP motors handles CSX train Q602 on the S-line at Campville. SP 8494 was later UP 8678, GECX 8678, HLCX 6161.
Photo Date:  9/14/1996  Upload Date: 12/16/2010 11:18:20 PM
Location:  Campville, FL
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8494(SD40T-2)
Views:  758   Comments: 1
CSX Q605-19
Title:  CSX Q605-19
Description:  CSX Waycross-New Orleans train Q605-19 was parked on the Norfolk Southern's New Orleans Terminal at Marconi Drive, awaiting a Union Pacific crew. The motive power was SP SD40T-2 8494 and UP SD40-2 3143.
Photo Date:  8/21/2001  Upload Date: 8/30/2017 11:00:43 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8494(SD40T-2)
Views:  732   Comments: 1
SP 8495
Title:  SP 8495
Description:  Southbound eases its way downgrade on the SP through Cajon Pass.
Photo Date:  12/20/1994  Upload Date: 5/17/2008 3:07:05 AM
Location:  Cajon, CA
Author:  Terry Redeker
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8495(SD40T-2)
Views:  421   Comments: 3
SP 8495
Title:  SP 8495
Description:  Parked at Espee's Broadway Yard just a few blocks south from Downtown Fort Worth and the Tower 55 Interlocker. After the Union Pacific merger, this little yard was ripped up and the SP office became a den for drug use and a homeless camp until being demolished 10+ years after the takeover. But during SP's life this was a great spot for photos of the road power parked at the office after arriving with a train. The memories...
Photo Date:  5/1/1995  Upload Date: 3/13/2011 4:10:23 AM
Location:  Fort Worth, TX
Author:  Roberto Alaniz
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SP 8495(SD40T-2)
Views:  417   Comments: 0
SP 8495
Title:  SP 8495
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1995  Upload Date: 10/15/2008 7:33:33 PM
Location:  Gorham, IL
Author:  Mary Rae McPherson
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8495(SD40T-2)
Views:  330   Comments: 1
SP 8495 East
Title:  SP 8495 East
Description:  This is a hot OACHT.
Photo Date:  6/12/1995  Upload Date: 5/30/2006 11:50:25 AM
Location:  Magra, CA
Author:  Steve Schmollinger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8495(SD40T-2)
Views:  395   Comments: 0
SP 8495
Title:  SP 8495
Description:  It was always fun to see SP tunnel motors on the BNSF in Missouri. Here, one leads a UP trackage rights train east near Norborne. Back then, there really wasn't much you wouldn't see along the BNSF-NS joint track.
Photo Date:  2/14/1998  Upload Date: 12/4/2008 1:51:57 AM
Location:  Norborne, MO
Author:  Bryant Kaden
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8495(SD40T-2)
Views:  295   Comments: 1
SP 8495
Title:  SP 8495
Description:  SP 8495 at Oxnard
Photo Date:  2/1/2001  Upload Date: 11/13/2009 5:11:31 PM
Location:  Oxnard, CA
Author:  Joe Gartman
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 8495(SD40T-2)
Views:  441   Comments: 0
SP 8495,October 1996.
Title:  SP 8495,October 1996.
Description:  Union Pacific's KCOAF passes a manifest piloted by two UP GE C40-8's parked on the westward main track waiting for a new crew. Taken just one month after Southern Pacific was merged with the Union Pacific,UP assigned several C40-8's to work on the old Rio Grande Mainline,Train crews were not too happy with them.
Photo Date:  12/30/2013  Upload Date: 12/20/2014 4:18:47 PM
Location:  Ironton, UT
Author:  Quinn Clegg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8495(SD40T-2)
Views:  298   Comments: 2
SP 8496 East at Caliente
Title:  SP 8496 East at Caliente
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/17/1987  Upload Date: 5/27/2006 4:06:36 PM
Location:  Tehachapi Pass, CA
Author:  Steve Schmollinger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8496(SD40T-2)
Views:  507   Comments: 0
SP 8496 East exits the Narrows
Title:  SP 8496 East exits the Narrows
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/17/1987  Upload Date: 6/21/2006 1:40:40 PM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  Steve Schmollinger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8496(SD40T-2)
Views:  555   Comments: 0
(22) BKDOU
Title:  (22) BKDOU
Description:  The whining, staccato chant of 5 big EMD's reaches a crescendo as they notch out.
Photo Date:  7/29/1991  Upload Date: 9/28/2005 12:47:04 PM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7522(SD45R) SP 8496(SD40T-2)
Views:  627   Comments: 0
(28) BKDOU
Title:  (28) BKDOU
Description:  Headend of BKDOU going away at Woodford.
Photo Date:  7/29/1991  Upload Date: 9/28/2005 2:08:31 PM
Location:  Woodford, CA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7522(SD45R) SP 8496(SD40T-2)
Views:  1050   Comments: 0
(31) BKDOU
Title:  (31) BKDOU
Description:  BKDOU blasting through Walong east. Tunnel 10 is just out of sight around the curve.
Photo Date:  7/29/1991  Upload Date: 9/28/2005 2:16:26 PM
Location:  Tehachapi Loop, CA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8496(SD40T-2) SP 7522(SD45R)
Views:  783   Comments: 0
Title: 
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1994  Upload Date: 1/9/2006 11:57:32 AM
Location:  Cabazon, CA
Author:  chad thomas
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8496(SD40T-2) SP 8571(SD40T-2)
Views:  772   Comments: 0
Sunset Limited at the station
Title:  Sunset Limited at the station
Description:  The train is very late because the horn has failed and it is limited to 25 mph. It won't leave until it is fixed.
Photo Date:  2/4/1995  Upload Date: 10/29/2006 7:27:10 PM
Location:  Houston, TX
Author:  Tim Sullivan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8496(SD40T-2)
Views:  1155   Comments: 0
Sunset Limited pulls into the station
Title:  Sunset Limited pulls into the station
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/4/1995  Upload Date: 10/29/2006 7:23:16 PM
Location:  Houston, TX
Author:  Tim Sullivan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8496(SD40T-2)
Views:  941   Comments: 0
SP 8529
Title:  SP 8529
Description:  SP 8529 heads east in the early morning, as seen from the freeway
Photo Date:  11/28/1995  Upload Date: 8/13/2023 9:15:28 PM
Location:  Empirita, AZ
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8529(SD40T-2) SP 8496(SD40T-2) SP 9201(SD45T-2)
Views:  272   Comments: 0
SP 8529
Title:  SP 8529
Description:  SP 8529 heads east under the freeway in the early morning
Photo Date:  11/30/1995  Upload Date: 8/13/2023 9:14:37 PM
Location:  Empirita, AZ
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8529(SD40T-2) SP 8496(SD40T-2) SP 9201(SD45T-2)
Views:  233   Comments: 0
SP 8529
Title:  SP 8529
Description:  SP 8529 heads east through the loop in the early morning
Photo Date:  11/30/1995  Upload Date: 11/24/2023 2:28:33 PM
Location:  Cienega Creek, AZ
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8529(SD40T-2) SP 8496(SD40T-2) SP 9201(SD45T-2)
Views:  218   Comments: 0


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