Up 844 east towards back to ogden UT returns for evanston WY south to Kansas city & fort worth TX from Texas & pacific railroad 100th anniversary special birthday 1912-2022 for final run to Houston tx
While the sp may be gone we’ll never forget it and the innovation it planted. And it’s legacy still lives on. In old videos, in museums and on our layouts.
Chances are you may have caught one of the trains I was running. And the brakeman, I would have said “since you are telling people what not to do, you shouldn’t be riding the car like that!”
Great video, nice to see the trains before the age of people spraying paint on the sides of the cars. Could not imagine cars and trucks being hauled on open racks today. Interesting to see depot photos with only american car models visible. What a difference 40 years makes and not necessarily for the better.
My father was the SP sales agent in Modesto from 1964 to ‘70. He had the small office on the left side of the depot looking from the tracks. I remember all these trains!
That was one of the best photo slide shows of the WP I’ve ever seen… Say, did anyone notice the difference between the UP painted 798 & 799? The UP nose herald on 799 is over the recessed area where the nose light used to be. But the 798 has the herald much lower… (JustMy2¢)
Great slide show, the pic of the Great Northern F45, I probably saw this on a run thru to Oakland. I remember seeing a F45 and SP&S Alco thru Hayward once.
Very enjoyable. The slide-style presentation allows us to appreciate both the trains and the surroundings in detail. Weird to think that those 'F' models were still (barely) roaming around out west while I was in high school. Shoulda made a road trip! Enjoyed the music too!
I have both volumes of Ken's books. I bought them when they first came out. A lot of folks have offered to "take them off my hands" But they are not for sale. I am a member of the FRRS and I am on the operating crew at Portola.
The second whistle on the 4449 is actually a Chicago Burlington and Quincy (CB&Q) 5 chime whistle, not a Star Brass 5 chime. This whistle was originally used from a scrapped M4 class 2-10-4 steam locomotive. Also, who the heck is Trixie Pranks?
About 22:20,one of the Zephyrettes is listed as Deb Baer-- anybody know if she had a brother named Kirk, who also worked for WP? Asking,because I remember that name from an old TRAINS magazine,about the Final Four F units on WP, he was a engineer.
As a former brakeman hired in '78, promoted conductor in '83, some of the pics bring back alot of memories of when working the Stockton Xtra board and having to to protect the jobs at Oakland, Fremont, Milpitas, and San Jose. Once at SF in its last days when the yard was torn up and spotted only one boxcar at a industry now gone. Long live the WP.
