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SP 7944
Title:  SP 7944
Description:  SP 7944 was one of twenty Espee GP40-2 specifically designed to operate with the 1600 series TEBU slugs.
Photo Date:  11/17/1985  Upload Date: 7/14/2023 3:42:55 PM
Location:  San Jose, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7944(GP40-2)
Views:  316   Comments: 0
SP 7944
Title:  SP 7944
Description:  Southern Pacific's Provo Switcher pulls a long train of taconite empties towards Provo to be cleaned out.
Photo Date:  2/6/1995  Upload Date: 1/28/2012 11:47:08 PM
Location:  Orem, UT
Author:  Quinn Clegg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7944(GP40-2)
Views:  738   Comments: 0
SP 7945
Title:  SP 7945
Description:  SP 7945 at Plainview crossing in Dec 1998
Photo Date:  8/31/1998  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 6:55:59 PM
Location:  Plainview, CO
Author:  Carl Arnold
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7945(GP40-2)
Views:  2217   Comments: 4
SP 7946
Title:  SP 7946
Description:  Top view of SP 7946.
Photo Date:  4/4/1981  Upload Date: 7/15/2023 10:17:27 AM
Location:  West Colton, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7946(GP40-2)
Views:  229   Comments: 0
SP 7946 at Phoenix
Title:  SP 7946 at Phoenix
Description:  Ted Ellis photo
Photo Date:  4/5/1987  Upload Date: 6/25/2023 9:59:46 PM
Location:  Phoenix, AZ
Author:  Ted Ellis
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7946(GP40-2)
Views:  211   Comments: 1
SP 7946
Title:  SP 7946
Description:  SP GP40-2 7946 is the second unit on an eastbound train that is tied down outside of Avondale Yard.
Photo Date:  1/17/1998  Upload Date: 7/26/2017 9:33:18 PM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  Christopher Palmieri
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  SP 7946(GP40-2)
Views:  470   Comments: 0
SP 7947
Title:  SP 7947
Description:  Exact date unknown
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 11/2/2008 8:16:19 PM
Location:  Gorham, IL
Author:  John E. Carpenter
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 7947(GP40-2)
Views:  799   Comments: 1
SP 7947
Title:  SP 7947
Description:  Top view of SP 7947.
Photo Date:  4/4/1981  Upload Date: 7/15/2023 10:17:49 AM
Location:  West Colton, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7947(GP40-2)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
SP 7947
Title:  SP 7947
Description:  A very rare set of power for Louisiana standards is seen here blasting west bound out of Avondale. This is the 60 mph mainline at Modern Farms Rd in Waggaman, LA. The trackage in the background belongs to the MP.
Photo Date:  5/15/1989  Upload Date: 3/25/2009 3:14:57 PM
Location:  Waggaman, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7947(GP40-2)
Views:  813   Comments: 1
SP 7947
Title:  SP 7947
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1999  Upload Date: 9/28/2005 2:54:51 AM
Location:  Tucker, GA
Author:  Michael E. Hoskins
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7947(GP40-2)
Views:  753   Comments: 0
A pair of SP units
Title:  A pair of SP units
Description:  A pair of SP GP 40s waits on a westbound stack train, looking for all the world like the merger never happened.
Photo Date:  1/21/2001  Upload Date: 7/15/2012 2:49:31 AM
Location:  Fabens, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SSW 7655(GP40-2) SP 7947(GP40-2)
Views:  661   Comments: 0
SP 7948
Title:  SP 7948
Description:  Top view of SP 7948.
Photo Date:  4/4/1981  Upload Date: 7/15/2023 10:18:16 AM
Location:  West Colton, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7948(GP40-2)
Views:  334   Comments: 0
SP 7948
Title:  SP 7948
Description:  Nearly new GP40-2 leads a southbound near La Rue. SP 7948 was later UP 1432. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1981  Upload Date: 12/6/2009 10:56:29 PM
Location:  La Rue, IL
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7948(GP40-2)
Views:  940   Comments: 2
SP 7949
Title:  SP 7949
Description:  7949, 1603 and 7948 are just back from Trona with the Searles Turn, on a hot August day.
Photo Date:  8/1/1981  Upload Date: 8/16/2008 1:15:25 AM
Location:  Mojave, CA
Author:  John Huey
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7949(GP40-2) SP 1603(TEBU) SP 7948(GP40-2)
Views:  2468   Comments: 2
San Jose, Ca. Yard and area
Title:  San Jose, Ca. Yard and area
Description:  Power for the Permanente Local leaves the SJ roundhouse and goes to Newhall Yard to pick up train, usually coal, cement hoppers. This day must have had a heavy load for all the engines. Today a single powerful SD70 seems to be enough. (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlwHEs1lk0w&feature=related)
Photo Date:  10/30/1985  Upload Date: 4/27/2011 1:06:30 PM
Location:  College Park, CA
Author:  Joe Korienek
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SP 7948(GP40-2) SP 1607(TEBU)
Views:  1362   Comments: 0
Yard views in and around San Jose
Title:  Yard views in and around San Jose
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/4/1985  Upload Date: 4/27/2011 1:56:39 PM
Location:  San Jose, CA
Author:  Joe Korienek
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SP 7948(GP40-2)
Views:  822   Comments: 0
SP 7948
Title:  SP 7948
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/14/2000  Upload Date: 1/23/2009 9:02:29 PM
Location:  Phoenix, AZ
Author:  Tom Fassett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7948(GP40-2)
Views:  697   Comments: 0
SP 7948
Title:  SP 7948
Description:  SP 7948 at Oxnard.
Photo Date:  1/1/2001  Upload Date: 10/13/2009 12:42:37 PM
Location:  Oxnard, CA
Author:  Joe Gartman
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7948(GP40-2)
Views:  978   Comments: 0
SP 7949
Title:  SP 7949
Description:  Top view of SP 7949.
Photo Date:  4/4/1981  Upload Date: 7/15/2023 10:18:41 AM
Location:  West Colton, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7949(GP40-2)
Views:  341   Comments: 0
SP 7949
Title:  SP 7949
Description:  Set up to run with 1600 class TEBU's
Photo Date:  8/1/1981  Upload Date: 8/15/2008 6:05:06 PM
Location:  Mojave, CA
Author:  John Huey
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7949(GP40-2)
Views:  759   Comments: 0
SP 1603
Title:  SP 1603
Description:  Connections between TEBU and GP40-2 mother unit.
Photo Date:  8/1/1981  Upload Date: 8/16/2008 5:39:24 AM
Location:  Mojave, CA
Author:  John Huey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 1603(TEBU) SP 7949(GP40-2)
Views:  1366   Comments: 0
SP #7949 in 1982
Title:  SP #7949 in 1982
Description:  Southern Pacific GP40-2 #7949 and road slug at Deming, New Mexico.
Photo Date:  6/1/1982  Upload Date: 8/20/2004 7:03:39 PM
Location:  Deming, NM
Author:  David Sommer
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7949(GP40-2)
Views:  1156   Comments: 0
SP 7949
Title:  SP 7949
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/10/1982  Upload Date: 9/18/2004 1:42:13 AM
Location:  Deming, NM
Author:  David Sommer
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7949(GP40-2)
Views:  1295   Comments: 0
SP GP40-2 7949
Title:  SP GP40-2 7949
Description:  SP GP40-2 7949, Tucson, Arizona, November 21, 1985, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built between April and May 1980 (c/n 796354-10) it became UP 1434 on December 20, 2000.
Photo Date:  11/21/1985  Upload Date: 9/3/2009 4:31:38 AM
Location:  Tucson, AZ
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7949(GP40-2)
Views:  518   Comments: 0
SP 7949
Title:  SP 7949
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/1/1986  Upload Date: 10/15/2004 8:42:26 PM
Location:  Deming, NM
Author:  DICK BRUNDAGE
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7949(GP40-2)
Views:  1246   Comments: 0
SP 7949
Title:  SP 7949
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/1986  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 11:17:49 PM
Location:  Casa Grande, AZ
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 7949(GP40-2) SP 1604(TEBU)
Views:  732   Comments: 0
SP #7949
Title:  SP #7949
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting at the fuel racks along with TEBU #1602 at SP engine terminal in K.C., Kansas.
Photo Date:  3/1/1987  Upload Date: 6/5/2023 9:32:59 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7949(GP40-2)
Views:  374   Comments: 0
SP GP40-2 7949
Title:  SP GP40-2 7949
Description:  Moved to Tucson in 1970, didn't think twice of the series of surviving coaling towers on the SP main. Some 23 years later, I started correcting the oversight.
Photo Date:  12/29/1993  Upload Date: 8/2/2009 1:23:10 PM
Location:  Lordsburg, NM
Author:  Mark Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7949(GP40-2)
Views:  1243   Comments: 0
SP 7950
Title:  SP 7950
Description:  SP 7950 was delivered in May 1980.
Photo Date:  8/8/1981  Upload Date: 7/15/2023 3:22:59 PM
Location:  Beaumont, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7950(GP40-2)
Views:  355   Comments: 0
SP 7950
Title:  SP 7950
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/17/1986  Upload Date: 1/23/2009 9:03:54 PM
Location:  Phoenix, AZ
Author:  Tom Fassett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7950(GP40-2)
Views:  694   Comments: 0
SSW 7965, SP Slug 160?, and SP 7950
Title:  SSW 7965, SP Slug 160?, and SP 7950
Description:  Sort of an ABA.
Photo Date:  6/20/1993  Upload Date: 11/20/2009 7:40:57 PM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7950(GP40-2) SSW 7965(GP40R) SP 1602(TEBU)
Views:  1636   Comments: 0
SP 7951
Title:  SP 7951
Description:  SP 7951 is westbound with an interesting Rio Grande, Cotton Belt, Missouri Pacific, and Southern Pacific consist in tow.
Photo Date:  11/21/1987  Upload Date: 7/15/2023 3:23:44 PM
Location:  El Casco, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 7951(GP40-2)
Views:  321   Comments: 1
SP 7951
Title:  SP 7951
Description:  It's a clear day as SP 7951 heads west towards West Colton.
Photo Date:  11/21/1987  Upload Date: 7/15/2023 3:24:26 PM
Location:  Ordway, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 7951(GP40-2)
Views:  310   Comments: 0
SP 7952
Title:  SP 7952
Description:  Westbound manifest passes the small yard at Niland. SP 7952 was later UP 1456. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1988  Upload Date: 7/18/2010 10:04:29 PM
Location:  Niland, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7952(GP40-2)
Views:  499   Comments: 3
SP 7952
Title:  SP 7952
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/18/1989  Upload Date: 5/2/2010 8:13:36 AM
Location:  Eugene, OR
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7952(GP40-2)
Views:  1337   Comments: 0
SP 7952
Title:  SP 7952
Description:  Gyralights front and rear
Photo Date:  10/19/2000  Upload Date: 6/13/2010 5:27:02 PM
Location:  Martinez, CA
Author:  Arne Brown
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7952(GP40-2)
Views:  626   Comments: 0
SP 7952
Title:  SP 7952
Description:  One of the last units wirh gyralights
Photo Date:  10/19/2000  Upload Date: 6/13/2010 5:24:26 PM
Location:  Martinez, CA
Author:  Arne Brown
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7952(GP40-2)
Views:  605   Comments: 0
SSW 7630
Title:  SSW 7630
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/1986  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 11:21:50 PM
Location:  Tucson, AZ
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SSW 7630(GP40-2) SP 7954(GP40-2)
Views:  700   Comments: 0
HOAVM
Title:  HOAVM
Description:  A SP GP40-2 on SP's HOAVM at Echo.
Photo Date:  10/1/1994  Upload Date: 4/29/2008 5:04:14 PM
Location:  Echo, TX
Author:  Doug Wooten
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  SP 7954(GP40-2)
Views:  648   Comments: 0
SP 7954
Title:  SP 7954
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/9/2001  Upload Date: 11/14/2005 6:22:13 PM
Location:  Palmer Lake, CO
Author:  Nathan D Holmes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7954(GP40-2)
Views:  501   Comments: 0
SP 7954 is unpatched
Title:  SP 7954 is unpatched
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/25/2006  Upload Date: 5/11/2006 8:29:07 PM
Location:  Leyden, CO
Author:  Chad Malinovsky
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7954(GP40-2)
Views:  543   Comments: 0
SP 7956
Title:  SP 7956
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/2005  Upload Date: 5/9/2005 1:08:19 PM
Location:  North Little Rock, AR
Author:  DOYLE YOUNG
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7956(GP40-2)
Views:  809   Comments: 0
Unpatched SP
Title:  Unpatched SP
Description:  Never would have thought this would be uncommon.
Photo Date:  7/4/2005  Upload Date: 7/14/2005 9:53:57 PM
Location:  Morehouse, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 215(B30-7A) SP 7956(GP40-2)
Views:  1194   Comments: 1
Southbound UP Local
Title:  Southbound UP Local
Description:  Awesome Prime Manufacturing PM-920 blowing for the crossing as the local scooted past with only 7 cars. I sure miss these units.
Photo Date:  7/4/2005  Upload Date: 1/4/2009 10:36:22 PM
Location:  Grayridge, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 215(B30-7A) SP 7956(GP40-2)
Views:  914   Comments: 0
Southbound UP Local
Title:  Southbound UP Local
Description:  We left the train heading down the Sikeston Industrial Lead and got on home (we were under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for our county, one county over from this one). They were gettin' it, this was around 4 P.M., at 5:22, they went over the detector at M.P. 157.9, running light.
Photo Date:  7/4/2005  Upload Date: 1/4/2009 10:36:23 PM
Location:  Grayridge, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 215(B30-7A) SP 7956(GP40-2)
Views:  851   Comments: 0
Ex-MP
Title:  Ex-MP
Description:  Here's an old unrenumbered MOP unit.
Photo Date:  7/9/2005  Upload Date: 7/18/2005 2:25:24 AM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 2143(GP38-2) SP 7956(GP40-2)
Views:  745   Comments: 0
Paused
Title:  Paused
Description:  Taking a short break while a cut is made, the SP comes to a stop.
Photo Date:  7/14/2005  Upload Date: 7/18/2005 3:02:09 PM
Location:  Poplar Bluff, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 2143(GP38-2) SP 7956(GP40-2)
Views:  825   Comments: 0
SP 7956
Title:  SP 7956
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/20/2006  Upload Date: 4/22/2006 1:23:21 AM
Location:  Fort Worth, TX
Author:  Richard Whitenight
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7956(GP40-2)
Views:  566   Comments: 1
SP 7956
Title:  SP 7956
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/26/2006  Upload Date: 5/29/2006 4:16:10 AM
Location:  Saginaw, TX
Author:  Richard Whitenight
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7956(GP40-2)
Views:  645   Comments: 0
SSW 7284
Title:  SSW 7284
Description:  Northbound manifest pulling into the yard.
Photo Date:  5/27/2006  Upload Date: 6/7/2006 9:28:58 PM
Location:  Fort Worth, TX
Author:  Neil Stutzman
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SSW 7284(GP40M-2) SP 7956(GP40-2) UPY 636(GP15-1) UP 2537(GP38-2)
Views:  1112   Comments: 0


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