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Southern Pacific GP9E #3850
Title:  Southern Pacific GP9E #3850
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency.
Photo Date:  3/17/1979  Upload Date: 10/5/2006 10:13:09 PM
Location:  City of Industry, CA
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3850(GP9R)
Views:  684   Comments: 2
SP 3850
Title:  SP 3850
Description:  SP 3850 still has another fourteen years of service ahead of it before being retired in July 1994.
Photo Date:  8/2/1980  Upload Date: 3/24/2023 3:32:41 PM
Location:  Anaheim, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 3850(GP9R)
Views:  74   Comments: 0
SP 3850
Title:  SP 3850
Description:  Rumbling through Pomona, California, on Ocho de Mayo 1987, a typically ecclectic Southern Pacific lash-up leads a hauler on its way to the West Colton Yard. GP9R 3850 (ex-SP GP9 3679, nee-SP 5816) leads another GP9R, an SDP45 and a B30-7 east under "May Gray" skies ... That Gyralight really cut through the haze!
Photo Date:  5/8/1987  Upload Date: 2/27/2012 1:14:31 AM
Location:  Pomona, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 3850(GP9R)
Views:  1870   Comments: 6
SP 3851
Title:  SP 3851
Description:  Local off the Coalinga branch re-enters the mainline at Goshen Jct. for the trip back to Fresno. SP 3851 was originally T&NO 458, believed later sold to On-Track Railway Services, Ltd. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  2/1/1986  Upload Date: 3/2/2010 11:47:47 AM
Location:  Goshen, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3851(GP9R)
Views:  1827   Comments: 3
SP #3851
Title:  SP #3851
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Taken at the SP yard in Ogden.
Photo Date:  5/26/1991  Upload Date: 5/31/2023 10:16:04 AM
Location:  Ogden, UT
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 3851(GP9R)
Views:  162   Comments: 0
Rebuilt by SP 1970-1980. Retired.
Title:  Rebuilt by SP 1970-1980. Retired.
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/20/2000  Upload Date: 2/17/2003 12:34:11 AM
Location:  Pine Bluff, AR
Author:  Ken Roble
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3851(GP9R)
Views:  1384   Comments: 0
SP 3852
Title:  SP 3852
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/1/1983  Upload Date: 11/24/2008 5:06:38 PM
Location:  Unknown, CA
Author:  Richard Parshall
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  SP 3852(GP9R)
Views:  1151   Comments: 0
SP 3852 - Tracy, CA - 3/12/1995
Title:  SP 3852 - Tracy, CA - 3/12/1995
Description:  Southern Pacific GP9 3852 was built by EMD in April 1959 as SP 5826. In the SPs 1965 renumbering scheme, it was assigned number 3689. In July 1977 the engine was released from the railroads Sacramento upgrade program as number 3852. This engine was sold in February 1996 to Progress Rail.
Photo Date:  3/12/1995  Upload Date: 1/13/2011 11:42:31 AM
Location:  Tracy, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 3852(GP9R)
Views:  529   Comments: 0
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:  826   Comments: 1
SP 3854
Title:  SP 3854
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/1/1980  Upload Date: 10/12/2017 1:18:55 PM
Location:  Roseville, CA
Author:  Michael Cameron
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3854(GP9R)
Views:  135   Comments: 0
SP 3854
Title:  SP 3854
Description:  A Bay Area unit finds some warm sun.
Photo Date:  4/21/1985  Upload Date: 5/9/2018 7:15:09 PM
Location:  Sparks, NV
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3854(GP9R)
Views:  259   Comments: 0
SP 3855 running over UP rails to Los Nietos Junction.
Title:  SP 3855 running over UP rails to Los Nietos Junction.
Description:  Rebuilt GP-9 with fresh paint and the full array of SP lighting.
Photo Date:  7/5/1979  Upload Date: 12/2/2016 10:13:26 AM
Location:  City of Industry, CA
Author:  Clark Gillis
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3855(GP9R)
Views:  18298   Comments: 3
SP 3855
Title:  SP 3855
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1979  Upload Date: 10/12/2017 1:19:31 PM
Location:  Albany, OR
Author:  Michael Cameron
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3855(GP9R)
Views:  597   Comments: 0
SP 3855
Title:  SP 3855
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/10/1981  Upload Date: 5/20/2011 5:29:47 PM
Location:  Sacramento, CA
Author:  Bob Carter
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3855(GP9R)
Views:  1590   Comments: 0
San Jose, Ca. Yard and area
Title:  San Jose, Ca. Yard and area
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/30/1985  Upload Date: 4/27/2011 1:08:59 PM
Location:  San Jose, CA
Author:  Joe Korienek
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SP 3855(GP9R) SP 2668(SW1500)
Views:  1124   Comments: 0
SP 3856
Title:  SP 3856
Description:  Side view of SP 3856.
Photo Date:  1/2/1988  Upload Date: 3/24/2023 3:33:05 PM
Location:  Anaheim, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 3856(GP9R)
Views:  55   Comments: 0
SP 3856
Title:  SP 3856
Description:  The IV local heading compass south/timetable east between Brawley and Imperial on the Calexico branch. SP 3856 was later sold to OMLX. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 7/8/2010 8:49:21 AM
Location:  Brawley, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3856(GP9R)
Views:  1702   Comments: 4
HLCX 3165 and SP 3859
Title:  HLCX 3165 and SP 3859
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/24/1988  Upload Date: 11/8/2003 6:51:51 PM
Location:  Eugene, OR
Author: 
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HLCX 3165(SD45) SP 3859(GP9R)
Views:  1719   Comments: 0
Roundhouse
Title:  Roundhouse
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/24/1988  Upload Date: 10/8/2003 9:54:02 PM
Location:  Eugene, OR
Author:  Don Ringler, Jr
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  SP 4381(SD9E) SP 3859(GP9R)
Views:  1535   Comments: 1
SP 4362 with Six Other Locomotives
Title:  SP 4362 with Six Other Locomotives
Description:  WB (South)
Photo Date:  5/7/1977  Upload Date: 11/2/2018 2:06:16 AM
Location:  Renard[Marion], OR
Author:  Brian Humphreys
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4362(SD9E) SP 4398(SD9E) SP 3873(GP9R) SP 4379(SD9E) SP 4359(SD9E) SP 3888(SD9) SP 3870(SD9)
Views:  1024   Comments: 1
Midland Branch
Title:  Midland Branch
Description:  Cotton Belt GP9 3873 leads a single covered hopper eastbound over the Bayou Carlin lift bridge, as the bridge tender looks on. This was at Delcambre, on the Midland Branch, and the track now belongs to the Louisiana & Delta.
Photo Date:  8/7/1986  Upload Date: 6/25/2007 10:12:21 AM
Location:  Delcambre, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Bridge,Track
Locomotives:  SSW 3873(GP9R)
Views:  732   Comments: 0
Midland Branch
Title:  Midland Branch
Description:  Cotton Belt GP9 3873 and one hopper car of rice head east through Erath on the Espee's Midland Branch, en route from Abbeville to New Iberia.
Photo Date:  8/7/1986  Upload Date: 6/25/2007 11:44:05 AM
Location:  Erath, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 3873(GP9R)
Views:  1620   Comments: 2
Looking Down On the Roof Of SP 3873 From the Steel Bridge
Title:  Looking Down On the Roof Of SP 3873 From the Steel Bridge
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/20/1993  Upload Date: 12/2/2009 7:58:03 PM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3873(GP9R)
Views:  619   Comments: 0
SP 3873 at Stockton Tower
Title:  SP 3873 at Stockton Tower
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/25/1994  Upload Date: 11/28/2009 7:26:34 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3873(GP9R)
Views:  427   Comments: 0
SP 3873 at Stockton Tower
Title:  SP 3873 at Stockton Tower
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/25/1994  Upload Date: 11/28/2009 7:26:36 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3873(GP9R)
Views:  476   Comments: 0
SP 3873 at Stockton Tower
Title:  SP 3873 at Stockton Tower
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/25/1994  Upload Date: 11/28/2009 7:26:37 PM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3873(GP9R)
Views:  483   Comments: 0
SP 3873
Title:  SP 3873
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/27/2000  Upload Date: 11/19/2005 9:55:33 AM
Location:  Campo, CA
Author:  Nathan D Holmes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3873(GP9R)
Views:  570   Comments: 0
SP 3873
Title:  SP 3873
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/27/2000  Upload Date: 11/19/2005 9:56:01 AM
Location:  Campo, CA
Author:  Nathan D Holmes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3873(GP9R)
Views:  469   Comments: 0
SP 3873
Title:  SP 3873
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/27/2000  Upload Date: 11/19/2005 9:56:22 AM
Location:  Campo, CA
Author:  Nathan D Holmes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3873(GP9R)
Views:  536   Comments: 0
Black Widow GP9R 'SP 3873'
Title:  Black Widow GP9R 'SP 3873'
Description:  ex SSW 3873 (GP9R), ex SSW 3651 (GP9) at PSRMA Campo, CA. Museum has another Black Widow unit lettered SD&A.
Photo Date:  11/5/2005  Upload Date: 11/9/2013 2:18:04 PM
Location:  Campo, CA
Author:  Steven Vincent
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 3873(GP9R)
Views:  719   Comments: 0
SP 3873
Title:  SP 3873
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/15/2006  Upload Date: 6/21/2006 12:08:43 AM
Location:  Campo, CA
Author:  John K. Pack
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3873(GP9R)
Views:  978   Comments: 2
Christmas Train Time
Title:  Christmas Train Time
Description:  This is the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum's 'North Pole Limited' at Campo, California. Seven heavy weight cars; a neat Geep; gallons of hot chocolate; a sold out crowd of kids, parents, and grandparents; 20 elves; no partridge; and 2 Santa Clauses! The white spots in the picture? They're nothing because it doesn't rain in Southern California.
Photo Date:  12/13/2008  Upload Date: 12/13/2008 10:51:04 PM
Location:  Campo, CA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3873(GP9R)
Views:  1131   Comments: 0
M&ET 613 in Campo
Title:  M&ET 613 in Campo
Description:  The Pacific Southwest Railway Museum's newly acquired GE 70 Tonner. The locomotive was previously owned by the Modesto and Empire Traction Company. It was originally Southern Pacific 5119 and served on the San Diego and Arizona in the San Diego area.
Photo Date:  10/16/2011  Upload Date: 10/28/2011 7:06:42 PM
Location:  Campo, CA
Author:  Stephen Hager
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Track
Locomotives:  MET 613(70Tonner) SP 3873(GP9R)
Views:  774   Comments: 0
The PSRM Golden State.
Title:  The PSRM Golden State.
Description:  Here is SP 3873, at the front of the PSRMs excursion train, the Golden State, consisting of SDA 6701, 252, and 253.
Photo Date:  6/26/2021  Upload Date: 7/11/2021 10:31:37 PM
Location:  Campo, CA
Author:  Jonathan (SleepTrain456)
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3873(GP9R)
Views:  231   Comments: 0
SP 3758.
Title:  SP 3758.
Description:  Here we see SP 3758 at the beginning of its train at the PSRM.
Photo Date:  6/26/2021  Upload Date: 7/11/2021 10:36:52 PM
Location:  Campo, CA
Author:  Jonathan (SleepTrain456)
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3873(GP9R)
Views:  230   Comments: 0
Right next to SP 3873.
Title:  Right next to SP 3873.
Description:  Here is the short hood of SP 3873, pushing the Golden State on its trip from the Campo, California depot to Division, California, just north of the US-Mexico border.
Photo Date:  6/26/2021  Upload Date: 7/13/2021 10:12:16 PM
Location:  Campo, CA
Author:  Jonathan (SleepTrain456)
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3873(GP9R)
Views:  121   Comments: 0
SP 3873
Title:  SP 3873
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/8/2023  Upload Date: 4/9/2023 11:33:26 PM
Location:  Campo, CA
Author:  Dean Kaplan
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 3873(GP9R) SSW 3873(GP9R) SSW 3651(GP9) SSW 830(GP9)
Views:  292   Comments: 0
SP 3873
Title:  SP 3873
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/3/2023  Upload Date: 6/4/2023 4:32:49 PM
Location:  Campo, CA
Author:  Jonathan Rodriguez
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3873(GP9R)
Views:  124   Comments: 0
Ballast Train
Title:  Ballast Train
Description:  Just south of the Shreveport city line, SP 6590 heads a work train.
Photo Date:  9/1/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 10:28:01 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 6590(GP35) SP 3877(GP9R)
Views:  397   Comments: 0
Homely. Rusty. Perfect.
Title:  Homely. Rusty. Perfect.
Description:  SP 3877 a perfectly lovely speciment - old, rusty, a little awkwardly designed.... just the thing to delight a rail fan.
Photo Date:  9/1/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 10:30:56 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 3877(GP9R)
Views:  393   Comments: 0
SP 3877
Title:  SP 3877
Description:  One of a handful of late GP9s built with factory low noses, SP 3877 was later DLSX 3877, RLK (Rail America/Ottawa Valley) 4004. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  11/1/1990  Upload Date: 8/28/2010 3:19:29 PM
Location:  Houston, TX
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3877(GP9R)
Views:  1464   Comments: 1
SP BTKRR
Title:  SP BTKRR
Description:  . Southern Pacific’s BTKRR empty rock train heads west past Tower 74 late in the day at Beaumont, TX. The SP 3877 a rebuilt GP9R was originally built as SP #5877 a GP9 in August 1959.
Photo Date:  12/31/1994  Upload Date: 9/19/2016 4:09:54 PM
Location:  Beaumont, TX
Author:  Doug Wooten
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  SP 3877(GP9R)
Views:  472   Comments: 0
SP 3877
Title:  SP 3877
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/12/1995  Upload Date: 11/28/2009 7:26:38 PM
Location:  Houston, TX
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3877(GP9R)
Views:  505   Comments: 1
SP 3877
Title:  SP 3877
Description:  Two GP9Rs still tending to switching duties in Roseville, CA on a hot summer day in 1997.
Photo Date:  8/7/1997  Upload Date: 7/7/2012 1:37:49 PM
Location:  Roseville, CA
Author:  Mark Forbes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3877(GP9R)
Views:  580   Comments: 0
SP 3878
Title:  SP 3878
Description:  SP 3878 heads up a loaded lumber train moving through Marysville.
Photo Date:  8/5/1977  Upload Date: 3/26/2023 12:12:49 PM
Location:  Marysville, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 3878(GP9R)
Views:  123   Comments: 0
SP 3878
Title:  SP 3878
Description:  SP 3878 rolls by the National Ice & Cold Storage building in Marysville.
Photo Date:  8/5/1977  Upload Date: 3/26/2023 12:13:05 PM
Location:  Marysville, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 3878(GP9R)
Views:  149   Comments: 0
SP 3878
Title:  SP 3878
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1981  Upload Date: 10/12/2017 1:21:43 PM
Location:  Albany, OR
Author:  Michael Cameron
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3878(GP9R)
Views:  194   Comments: 0
SP 4317
Title:  SP 4317
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/1/1982  Upload Date: 10/12/2017 2:23:58 PM
Location:  Antelope, CA
Author:  Mibhael Cameron
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4317(SD9E) SP 3878(GP9R)
Views:  287   Comments: 0
Snoozing at Marysville
Title:  Snoozing at Marysville
Description:  Espee local power, in this case GP9E 3879, sits with one of the road's trademark bay-window cabooses at Marysville CA in August 1976. 3879 was one of 20 GP9s SP had delivered in 1959 with a low nose (as 5890); it came out of the Sacramento rebuild program in May 1976.
Photo Date:  8/5/1976  Upload Date: 1/11/2009 4:11:51 PM
Location:  Marysville, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3879(GP9R)
Views:  896   Comments: 1
SP 3879
Title:  SP 3879
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1979  Upload Date: 10/12/2017 1:26:03 PM
Location:  Albany, OR
Author:  Michael @ameron
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 3879(GP9R)
Views:  263   Comments: 0


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