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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:	131 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:	328 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:	611 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:	139 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:	645 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:	597 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:	480 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:	192 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:	784 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:	2242 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:	1134 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:	646 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:	532 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:	836 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:	173 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:	614 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:	1182 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:	923 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:	1014 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:	372 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:	1049 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:	545 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:	173 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:	1084 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:	193 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:	559 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:	1409 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:	150 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:	143 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:	386 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:	1220 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:	509 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:	495 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:	502 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:	483 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:	360 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:	388 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:	671 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:	983 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:	711 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:	653 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:	593 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:	637 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:	393 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:	447 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:	852 Comments: 0

SP 7956

Title:	SP 7956
Description:	Manifest parked in the yard north of Tower 55
Photo Date:	5/27/2006 Upload Date: 6/7/2006 9:26:00 PM
Location:	Fort Worth, TX
Author:	Neil Stutzman
Categories:
Locomotives:	SP 7956(GP40-2) UPY 636(GP15-1) UP 3306(SD40-2)
Views:	695 Comments: 0

SP 7956, EMD GP40-2, at the UP's Yard,

Title:	SP 7956, EMD GP40-2, at the UP's Yard,
Description:	SP 7956, EMD GP40-2, at the UP's Yard at St. Joseph Missouri
Photo Date:	8/19/2006 Upload Date: 9/14/2009 8:49:51 AM
Location:	Saint Joseph, MO
Author:	Paul Rome
Categories:	Roster
Locomotives:	SP 7956(GP40-2)
Views:	549 Comments: 1

SP #7958

Title:	SP #7958
Description:	Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Setting at the SP/Cotton Belt engine terminal in K.C., Kansas.
Photo Date:	7/20/1986 Upload Date: 6/5/2023 9:35:38 PM
Location:	Kansas City, KS
Author:	Rich Varner
Categories:	Roster
Locomotives:	SP 7958(GP40-2)
Views:	168 Comments: 0

SP 7959

Title:	SP 7959
Description:
Photo Date:	1/1/1983 Upload Date: 7/22/2005 5:04:44 PM
Location:	Dresbach, MN
Author:	Jim Matuska
Categories:
Locomotives:	SP 7959(GP40-2)
Views:	808 Comments: 0

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