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Owner: Sacramento Northern
Model:EMD GP7Built As:WP 712 (GP7)
Serial Number:18168Order No:5230
Frame Number:5230-3Built:4/1953
Notes:ex-WP
Other locos with this serial:  SN 712(GP7) WP 712(GP7)
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SN 712
Title:  SN 712
Description:  Al Chione set
Photo Date:  9/9/1973  Upload Date: 1/13/2024 10:10:46 PM
Location:  Yuba City, CA
Author:  Al Chione
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SN 712(GP7)
Views:  107   Comments: 0
Sacramento Northern engine facility
Title:  Sacramento Northern engine facility
Description:  Both of SN's ex-WP GP7s sit in their engine facility at West Sacramento.
Photo Date:  6/14/1974  Upload Date: 2/9/2008 7:02:07 PM
Location:  West Sacramento, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SN 711(GP7) SN 712(GP7)
Views:  1612   Comments: 0
Western Pacific APF "Auto Parts Forwarder"
Title:  Western Pacific APF "Auto Parts Forwarder"
Description:  It's a little after the absolute crack of dawn and we left the rest of the family asleep at our motel to catch the "Auto Parts Forwarder" arriving into Milpitas CA, about to duck under Calaveras Boulevard with an almost pure first generation consist of a Sacramento Northern GP7, a Western Pacific GP7, a Western Pacific F7 and a lone second generation intruder of a Western Pacific U23B. The lens lice is Charles J Freericks (CKF's son). The APF was a Stockton to Milpitas train made up of auto parts and general merchandise.
Photo Date:  8/2/1978  Upload Date: 11/18/2008 12:43:22 AM
Location:  Milpitas, CA
Author:  Charles Knox Freericks
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SN 712(GP7)
Views:  1384   Comments: 0
SN 712 heads up the APF
Title:  SN 712 heads up the APF
Description:  The Sacramento Northern was a subsidiary of the Western Pacific, which by 1978 rostered two locomotives, former WP GP7s #711 and #712. On this early morning, #712 lead Western Pacific's APF, the "Auto Parts Forwarder" up to the Milpitas Wye. Behind the train is the large Ford plant, which was the lifeblood of the Western Pacific at that time. GP7 #712 was delivered to the Western Pacific in April of 1953. After retirement, it went to the Western Railway Museum in Niles, California. Later still, it was sent to the Western Pacific musuem in Portola, California, where it is located today.
Photo Date:  8/2/1978  Upload Date: 11/18/2008 1:13:13 AM
Location:  Milpitas, CA
Author:  Charles Knox Freericks
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SN 712(GP7) WP 713(GP7)
Views:  1729   Comments: 0
WP APF "Auto Parts Forwarder" in front of Ford
Title:  WP APF "Auto Parts Forwarder" in front of Ford
Description:  The "Auto Parts Forwarder" is probably beginning to bleed off its caboose now before kicking it to their outbound cut. Then they would shove the rest of their loads into the track they were delivering to. The "Auto Parts Forwarder" had begun its journey in Stockton about six or seven hours earlier. Called at midnight 7 days a week for San Jose. It carried South Bay manifest and Ford products that were less time sensitive. Three three lead engines all made it to museums, 712 and 917 to Porola and 713 to Niles. Only the U-Boat (the baby in the bunch) doesn't survive today.
Photo Date:  8/2/1978  Upload Date: 11/18/2008 12:44:38 AM
Location:  Milpitas, CA
Author:  Charles Knox Freericks
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SN 712(GP7) WP 713(GP7) WP 917(F7A)
Views:  1837   Comments: 1
Western Pacific SJM "San Jose Manifest"
Title:  Western Pacific SJM "San Jose Manifest"
Description:  The "San Jose Manifest" outbound waits silently on track #1 of Milpitas Yard while its crew has gone to beans. The cut of cars on track #3 (with the mid 1950s era International bay window caboose) may be the FF "Fast Ford" or a local. If you look to the far right, there are some garbage truck bodies on a flat car, probably being delivered to Ford. U23B #2265, which rode on Blomber trucks from an EMD trade in, was delivered in June of 1972, making it 22 years younger than the F7 right behind it.
Photo Date:  8/2/1978  Upload Date: 11/18/2008 12:44:57 AM
Location:  Milpitas, CA
Author:  Charles Knox Freericks
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WP 2265(U23B) WP 917(F7A) WP 713(GP7) SN 712(GP7)
Views:  2358   Comments: 0
Sacramento Northern
Title:  Sacramento Northern
Description:  Classic piece of Detroit design work...Oh and the loco aint so bad either!
Photo Date:  5/15/1982  Upload Date: 3/23/2006 2:46:44 AM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Michael Cassidy
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SN 712(GP7)
Views:  1122   Comments: 0
SN 712 at Harter
Title:  SN 712 at Harter
Description:  David R Busse photo
Photo Date:  7/9/1982  Upload Date: 4/25/2021 10:33:55 PM
Location:  Yuba City, CA
Author:  David R Busse
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SN 712(GP7)
Views:  250   Comments: 2
SN 712 at Yuba City Yard
Title:  SN 712 at Yuba City Yard
Description:  Randy Curlin Collection
Photo Date:  12/26/1983  Upload Date: 8/6/2021 7:25:14 AM
Location:  Yuba City, CA
Author:  Randy Curlin Collection
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SN 712(GP7)
Views:  260   Comments: 2
Very Last WP San Jose Turn
Title:  Very Last WP San Jose Turn
Description:  Ken Rattenne photo
Photo Date:  8/11/1984  Upload Date: 4/2/2023 1:57:43 PM
Location:  Milpitas, CA
Author:  Ken Rattenne
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  WP 2009(GP20) SN 712(GP7) WP 709(GP7)
Views:  175   Comments: 1
Sacramento Northern Freight West Sacramento, CA
Title:  Sacramento Northern Freight West Sacramento, CA
Description:  Sacramento Northern Freight at West Sacramento, California
Photo Date:  10/1/1984  Upload Date: 9/25/2013 5:44:27 AM
Location:  , CA
Author:  Dan Engstrom
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SN 712(GP7)
Views:  542   Comments: 0
Sacramento Northern 712
Title:  Sacramento Northern 712
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/1/1985  Upload Date: 10/11/2002 8:22:04 AM
Location:  Sacramento, CA
Author:  Jim Matta
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SN 712(GP7)
Views:  1871   Comments: 1
SN 712
Title:  SN 712
Description:  Portola Railroad Museum
Photo Date:  6/13/2007  Upload Date: 8/31/2014 4:20:05 PM
Location:  Portola, CA
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SN 712(GP7) WP 731(GP9)
Views:  448   Comments: 0
SN 712
Title:  SN 712
Description:  Sacramento Northern. 712 on display at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum.
Photo Date:  6/7/2010  Upload Date: 4/28/2012 12:55:45 PM
Location:  Portola, CA
Author:  Michael Greenspun
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Track
Locomotives:  SN 712(GP7)
Views:  685   Comments: 0
SN 712 at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum
Title:  SN 712 at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum
Description:  Sacramento Northern #712, an EMD GP7, sits parked at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA.
Photo Date:  8/19/2011  Upload Date: 1/20/2012 8:34:49 PM
Location:  Portola, CA
Author:  Jamie West
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SN 712(GP7)
Views:  516   Comments: 0
SN 712
Title:  SN 712
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/14/2014  Upload Date: 5/29/2014 8:13:23 AM
Location:  Portola, CA
Author:  Bob Keenan
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SN 712(GP7)
Views:  333   Comments: 0
SN 712
Title:  SN 712
Description:  Sacramento Northern 712 GP7 Sits At WPRM One Of My Favorite Locomotives In Their Collection
Photo Date:  8/26/2017  Upload Date: 7/25/2019 4:56:38 PM
Location:  Portola, CA
Author:  James Nessen Railfanning
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SN 712(GP7)
Views:  259   Comments: 1
SN 712
Title:  SN 712
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/29/2018  Upload Date: 5/15/2023 5:33:47 PM
Location:  Portola, CA
Author:  Matt Petersen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SN 712(GP7)
Views:  70   Comments: 0
SN 712
Title:  SN 712
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/25/2018  Upload Date: 9/12/2018 8:47:05 PM
Location:  Portola, CA
Author:  TrainSF Rail Productions
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SN 712(GP7)
Views:  246   Comments: 0
WP 705
Title:  WP 705
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/3/2019  Upload Date: 8/26/2019 3:52:03 PM
Location:  Portola, CA
Author:  James Nessen Railfanning
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  WP 705(GP7) SN 712(GP7) WP 731(GP9)
Views:  608   Comments: 0


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