Here's unpatched Southern Pacific #309 sitting outside the shops at Settegast Yard in Houston on May 20, 2010. The last unpatched unit I'd seen before this one was about 3 years ago.
that looks great, but there is an error,only the first two trainmasters (4800, 4801), in their first SP paint job had silver trucks, and only because Fairbanks Morse painted their demostrators with silver trucks and the SP did not bother to repaint them (they were TM3 and TM4 before the SP bought them)
A patched AC44CW caught in Appleton, Wisconsin about a month ago (not my photo, but ironically I saw the same unit, probably on the same day as this photo as I was driving along the highway to the hobby shop to pick up an N scale Southern Pacific SD-50). Anyway, I thought it was cool, I usually think of SP units out in the desert somewhere, not in Wisconsin in the middle of winter! (nice catch SP Lives, I got it in my head somehow it was a Dash 9, despite already looking it up on rrpicturearchives, heh. Though I can't easily tell the S's apart.)
I don't have pictures, but Campo, CA's Pacific Southwest Railroad Museum has a GP9 #3873 in black widow paint. Of course, before it pulled museum trains in Campo, it was lettered for the Cotton Belt and was bloody nose...
Howdy fellas. TB n00b here, but have been lurking for a couple of months. I stumbled onto a dead line in the Pierce Yard, just off to the west of Settegast. sp7791 by Hickory Shampoo, on Flickr up185 by Hickory Shampoo, on Flickr ^ Was 5100 with SP up7753 by Hickory Shampoo, on Flickr ^ Was 7796 with SP up1162 by Hickory Shampoo, on Flickr ^ Ex-SP 2591 I got a little misty seeing these old girls in this shape. Must have been allergies or the dust I kicked up getting in my eyes.
Hickory Shampoo- Welcome to actively posting on TrainBoard! I'll bet you were misty eyed! Dead line or not, that top photo is great, seeing an unpatched unit. Thanks for sharing! Boxcab E50
May 14th, 2011. Driving down the Hardy Toll Road in Houston doing about 70mph. I wish I would of had more time to take better pictures.
I found this worn out SP Geep in Petaluma, Ca. today, while looking for the new power on the former NWP:
I found this in Redding CA. This is the first patched SP locomotive I have ever seen still in operation. A little far from Houston
