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By:Mike Woodruff
Dates:1/1/1982 - 1/1/2002
Album Info:UP, WP and SP action on lines in Arizona, Nevada, California and Oregon
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SP 2523
Title:  SP 2523
Description:  Back in the "full crew" era; looks like four guys are going to cram into the cab of SP 2523 at Stockton. She was later UP 1109. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/22/2009 3:39:25 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  SP 2523(SW1500)
Views:  1969   Comments: 2
SP 3753
Title:  SP 3753
Description:  SP 3753, shown here handling a tie train at Truckee, was ex-SP 3571, nee-SP 5730, later became USAX 4640. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/22/2009 4:16:57 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3753(GP9R)
Views:  1002   Comments: 1
SP 8988
Title:  SP 8988
Description:  Westbound SP manifest just east of Truckee. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 3/3/2009 1:27:12 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8988(SD45)
Views:  978   Comments: 2
SP 9218
Title:  SP 9218
Description:  Westbound along the Truckee River, just east of Truckee, CA. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 3/3/2009 12:26:40 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  MIke Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 9218(SD45T-2)
Views:  1155   Comments: 7
UP 3118
Title:  UP 3118
Description:  Giving a hint of things to come, three UP SD40/40-2s head east on the SP out of Sparks, NV. UP 3118 was leased to NdeM from 3/90 to 6/91, wrecked and subsequently scrapped in Mexico. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 3/3/2009 12:08:04 PM
Location:  Lockwood, NV
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3118(SD40)
Views:  1103   Comments: 3
UP 3226
Title:  UP 3226
Description:  More hints of things to come as five UP SD40-2s handle an eastbound intermodal on the SP near Truckee, CA. The photographer's '65 Chevy II is parked down by the signal bridge. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 3/3/2009 1:02:31 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3226(SD40-2)
Views:  958   Comments: 3
WP 3005
Title:  WP 3005
Description:  WP 3005 was later UP 786, EIRR 786, WAMX 3504. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/22/2009 2:48:10 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 3005(GP35)
Views:  2070   Comments: 1
WP 3010
Title:  WP 3010
Description:  Shown here on a westbound just north of Stockton, WP 3010 was later UP 790, BLMR 790, WAMX 3507. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/21/2009 1:49:29 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 3010(GP35)
Views:  1282   Comments: 2
WP 3013
Title:  WP 3013
Description:  WP 3013 was later UP 792, BLMR 792, WAMX 3509. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/22/2009 2:25:15 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 3013(GP35)
Views:  1485   Comments: 0
WP 3017
Title:  WP 3017
Description:  WP 3017 was later UP 795, AZER 2503. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/22/2009 2:12:28 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 3017(GP35)
Views:  1473   Comments: 0
WP 3060
Title:  WP 3060
Description:  All of WP's U23Bs and U30Bs rode on EMD Blomberg trucks from traded-in F-units. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/22/2009 2:36:35 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 3060(U30B)
Views:  1381   Comments: 0
WP 3071
Title:  WP 3071
Description:  WP 3071 was built 6/66 as GE U28B demonstrator 304, rebuilt to U30B and delivered as WP #771 in 7/71, later renumbered to 3071.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/22/2009 1:47:27 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 3071(U30B)
Views:  1471   Comments: 0
WP 3522
Title:  WP 3522
Description:  WP 3522 was later UP 671, CM&W 3005, WC 3005, rebuilt to BRC GP23ECO 236. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/22/2009 3:11:41 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 3522(GP40)
Views:  972   Comments: 0
WP 3537
Title:  WP 3537
Description:  WP 3537 was later CMNW 3020, GWWR 3020, KCS 3152. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/22/2009 3:02:39 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 3537(GP40)
Views:  865   Comments: 1
WP 606
Title:  WP 606
Description:  WP 606, shown on the turntable at Stockton, was later rebuilt to UP SW10 1274, then SEKR 1274, WAMX 1101. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/22/2009 1:40:28 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 606(SW9)
Views:  1147   Comments: 0
WP 914-A
Title:  WP 914-A
Description:  On one of the turntable whisker tracks at Stockton. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/21/2009 7:24:29 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WP 914A(F7A)
Views:  1226   Comments: 0
WP 915-D
Title:  WP 915-D
Description:  On one of the turntable whisker tracks at Stockton. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/21/2009 7:25:00 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WP 915D(F7A)
Views:  1235   Comments: 1
SP 8954
Title:  SP 8954
Description:  Odd couple of SP SD45 and L&N U25B at Conrail's Sharonville Yard. SP 8954 was rebuilt to SP SD45R 7516, then later rebuilt to CEFX SD40-2 3124. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1977  Upload Date: 6/12/2009 9:02:07 PM
Location:  Sharonville, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8954(SD45)
Views:  1038   Comments: 1
SP 4371
Title:  SP 4371
Description:  SD9/GP9 combo works the yard at Lodi. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/23/2009 10:23:45 PM
Location:  Lodi, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4371(SD9E)
Views:  1112   Comments: 4
SP 7315
Title:  SP 7315
Description:  Six units take an eastbound under the Glenshire Drive bridge and along the Truckee River. SP 7315 was later GCFX 3097. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/23/2009 7:18:29 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7315(SD40R)
Views:  1243   Comments: 6
Racing with the Moon
Title:  Racing with the Moon
Description:  Three SP tunnel motors with a BRLAT train race the full moon down the San Joaquin Valley, as we try to keep up in my girlfriend's old Toyota pickup. Date and location approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1982  Upload Date: 8/7/2007 11:10:46 PM
Location:  Ceres, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8310(SD40T-2) SP 8539(SD40T-2)
Views:  837   Comments: 1
SP 9110
Title:  SP 9110
Description:  Four SD45s in conventional and tunnel motor versions lead this reefer block westbound just east of Truckee, CA. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/23/2009 6:42:13 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 9110(SD45)
Views:  690   Comments: 4
SP 9178
Title:  SP 9178
Description:  Three tunnel motors lead a westbound up the Truckee River Canyon. SP 9178 was later SP 6775, KCS 4502. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/23/2009 7:31:46 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 9178(SD45T-2)
Views:  954   Comments: 6
SSW 9280
Title:  SSW 9280
Description:  Eastbound along the Truckee River. SSW 9280 was later SP 6790, HATX 936, rebuilt to DM&IR SD40-3 409. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/23/2009 10:01:56 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SSW 9280(SD45T-2)
Views:  749   Comments: 3
UP 3473
Title:  UP 3473
Description:  OMW heads west into the setting sun at Spring Garden, CA. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1982  Upload Date: 1/14/2009 7:10:52 PM
Location:  Spring Garden, CA
Author:  Laurelynn Brooks
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3473(SD40-2)
Views:  676   Comments: 2
UP 3783
Title:  UP 3783
Description:  Westbound coal train at Oroville. UP 3783 was later UP B3783, retired 12/26/01. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/23/2009 4:11:07 PM
Location:  Oroville, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3783(SD40-2)
Views:  694   Comments: 4
WP 3015
Title:  WP 3015
Description:  Westbound at Stockton. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1982  Upload Date: 1/14/2009 7:03:11 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Laurelynn Brooks
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 3015(GP35)
Views:  1295   Comments: 3
WP 3015
Title:  WP 3015
Description:  WP 3015 was later UP 794, AZER 2502, KYLE 2502. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/23/2009 3:53:53 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 3015(GP35)
Views:  901   Comments: 4
WP 3557
Title:  WP 3557
Description:  Eastbound freight works upgrade through the Feather River Canyon. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/23/2009 4:44:06 PM
Location:  Rich Bar, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 3557(GP40-2)
Views:  664   Comments: 2
WP 3557
Title:  WP 3557
Description:  WP 3557 was later UP 912, UP 9991. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/23/2009 5:25:59 PM
Location:  Virgilia, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 3557(GP40-2)
Views:  1015   Comments: 3
WP 3557
Title:  WP 3557
Description:  Eastbound freight on the lower level of Williams Loop, between Massack and Spring Garden, CA. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/23/2009 5:48:17 PM
Location:  Massack, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 3557(GP40-2)
Views:  1129   Comments: 9
WP 3557
Title:  WP 3557
Description:  Eastbound freight negotiating Williams Loop. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/23/2009 5:48:45 PM
Location:  Massack, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 3557(GP40-2)
Views:  918   Comments: 5
WP 3558
Title:  WP 3558
Description:  Westbound crosses Rock Creek trestle. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/23/2009 6:30:00 PM
Location:  Rock Creek, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 3558(GP40-2)
Views:  931   Comments: 3
WP 461
Title:  WP 461
Description:  Three flavors of WP caboose on this eastbound at Williams Loop. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/23/2009 5:49:12 PM
Location:  Massack, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  837   Comments: 2
SP 3853
Title:  SP 3853
Description:  For a very brief period in the pre-Metrolink era, SP and Caltrans attempted to operate commuter trains on the Coast Line between Oxnard and LA. Here some of the equipment lays over at Oxnard on a rainy weekend. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/3/2010 11:57:48 AM
Location:  Oxnard, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3853(GP9R)
Views:  727   Comments: 1
SP 5324
Title:  SP 5324
Description:  Rare birds in anyone's enginehouse, these two SP SD39s were bought for mainline service over Tehachapi and Cajon, but ended up working mostly local freights in the L.A. Basin. SP 5324 was later Copper Basin 304, HATX 3952, HATX 353, IHB 3902. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/3/2010 11:43:37 AM
Location:  Oxnard, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 5324(SD39) SP 5320(SD39)
Views:  1322   Comments: 1
SP 7321
Title:  SP 7321
Description:  These four SP SDs are actually handling a westbound UP train of coal off of the Rio Grande, running on the Santa Fe between Daggett and Barstow. SP SD40R 7321 was rebuilt from SP 8415, was later IC&E 6431. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/3/2010 1:59:37 PM
Location:  Daggett, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7321(SD40R)
Views:  906   Comments: 3
UP 3156
Title:  UP 3156
Description:  Four UP SD40-2s bring a coal train down the Feather River Canyon. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/3/2010 5:38:15 PM
Location:  Tobin, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3156(SD40-2)
Views:  565   Comments: 2
WP 3019
Title:  WP 3019
Description:  WP 3019 was later UP 797, SKOL 797, WAMX 3511. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/4/2010 2:45:09 PM
Location:  Oroville, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 3019(GP35)
Views:  1541   Comments: 3
UP 3397
Title:  UP 3397
Description:  UP 3397, shown here leading a westbound export coal train at Helendale on the Santa Fe, was one of nine UP SD40-2s equipped in 1978 to lead CP-UP pool trains through Eastport, ID. This included the application of Canadian-style ditchlights, which were required for locomotives operating in Canada a full two decades before they were mandated in the US. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/12/2010 8:08:32 AM
Location:  Helendale, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3397(SD40-2)
Views:  700   Comments: 3
SP 4322
Title:  SP 4322
Description:  An SD9 passes a wig-wag crossing signal departing from Klamath Falls on the Modoc sub with the Copic local. SP 4322 was rebuilt to SD9E from SP 3806, nee-SP 5345. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  9/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/13/2010 3:18:54 PM
Location:  Texum, OR
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4322(SD9E)
Views:  1178   Comments: 2
SP 7438
Title:  SP 7438
Description:  Rebuilt SD45 leads a nine-unit consist on this westbound passing the water tower at Black Butte. SP 7428 was originally SP 8801, retired by UP 12/29/99. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  9/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/12/2010 2:03:48 PM
Location:  Black Butte, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7438(SD45R)
Views:  902   Comments: 4
SP 8248
Title:  SP 8248
Description:  Westbound SP lumber drag exits Tunnel 17 near Dorris on the Black Butte sub. SP 8248 was later UP 8854, sold for scrap to Larry's Truck Electric 7/03. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  9/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/12/2010 1:01:23 PM
Location:  Dorris, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8248(SD40T-2)
Views:  618   Comments: 3
SP 8305
Title:  SP 8305
Description:  What is likely an EUOGY train on the jointed rail of the Modoc sub near Merrill, OR. SP 8305 was later UP 4371, UP 2868, retired 9/16/02. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  9/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/12/2010 2:22:05 PM
Location:  Merrill, OR
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2)
Views:  574   Comments: 1
SP 8909
Title:  SP 8909
Description:  SP eastbound manifest passes the water tower and standpipe at Black Butte, often utilized by the 4449 during her various travels up and down the Black Butte sub. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  9/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/12/2010 1:50:08 PM
Location:  Black Butte, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8909(SD45)
Views:  669   Comments: 2
D&RGW 3099
Title:  D&RGW 3099
Description:  The middle unit, SP GP40X 7231, is acting as the radio receiver for this remote helper set. She was later UP 9999:2, then sold to NRE and rebuilt to GP38-2 CP 4521. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/16/2010 11:15:43 AM
Location:  Hackamore, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 3099(GP40-2) SP 7231(GP40X)
Views:  1076   Comments: 1
SP 3879
Title:  SP 3879
Description:  Power for the Lakeview branch - SP's next to last GP9 (one of twenty built with factory low noses) poses with a C-30-4 class caboose in the yard at Alturas. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/15/2010 1:32:09 PM
Location:  Alturas, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3879(GP9R)
Views:  1649   Comments: 2
SP 7231
Title:  SP 7231
Description:  SP 7231 was later UP 9999:2, sold to NRE, rebuilt to GP38-2 CP 4521. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/16/2010 12:06:28 PM
Location:  Ambrose, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7231(GP40X)
Views:  1014   Comments: 1
SP 8303
Title:  SP 8303
Description:  An EUOGY train eastbound on the Modoc line at MP 495, about halfway between Perez and Ambrose near Hackamore. SP 8303 is an RCE master, controlling three remote helpers back in the train. She was later UP 4560, UP 2887. The mountains barely visible in the background at left are the Medicine Lake Highlands, a collapsed volcanic caldera. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/16/2010 11:05:54 AM
Location:  Hackamore, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8303(SD40T-2)
Views:  640   Comments: 2
SP 8303
Title:  SP 8303
Description:  The remote helpers are now back on the head end as this EUOGY prepares to descend the 2% grade to Canby. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/16/2010 11:56:55 AM
Location:  Ambrose, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8303(SD40T-2)
Views:  607   Comments: 2


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