SP CAB FORWARDS AND BLACK WIDOW UNITS

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Published 2024-06-23

This 1950 to 1978 look brings the long-gone visions of SP out west. See Cab-Ahead steam and early F-units in snow on Donner Pass. Visit both sides of the beautiful Bay Area. Run out to old Tracy and Lathrop riding the San Joaquin Daylight trains. See the City of San Francisco, Coast Daylight, steam 'Commute', local and mail trains. Some Locations: Old Sacramento,San Francisco , Oakland, Berkeley, San Jose, Colton, Tracy, Shasta, Donner, Suisun Bay, Altamont Pass, Tehachapi...and more... Other Features:Passenger, Freight, Diesel, Steam All Vintage!!! Diesels in Daylight, Black Widow, Tiger Stripe, Gray & Scarlet color schemes Freight trains behind steam and early diesel power take you back to a more interesting period that will never return

All Comments (9)

@charlessmileyvideo 5 days ago

Many scenes from our movie "SP Vintage West" available at www.cspmovies.com/
@HarryPalmer-P.I. 5 days ago

I'm an old timer seeing the black widow unit brings back childhood memories.
@ronaldvrooman9695 4 days ago

This is a great video which shows what it was like when Southern Pacific was still a good railroad. Thanks for all the effort you put into these presentations!
@royzug2847 5 days ago

Wonderful video. Very interesting and informative.
@J3scribe 5 days ago

Your extensive archive of Southern Pacific action is truly a national treasure.
@hartmutlorentzen9659 5 days ago

Excellent video, thanks for presentation, from Germany
@LBHolder99 5 days ago

Video at 15:02 is taken from inside the North Hump yardmaster tower. The North Hump was the 2nd floor and the South Hump the 1st floor. North Hump switched westbound trains from Antelope receiving tracks 1-10 into bowl tracks 1-21. The South Hump switched eastbound trains from Antelope tracks 11-20 into bowl tracks 22-49. The yardmaster in the video is Leroy Wright who went on to become Assistant Terminal Superintendent at Roseville. Yeah, I went to work in Roseville Yard as a switchman in 1966. I also worked as a Car Retarder Operator and as a Yardmaster
@Denniss7420 4 hours ago

So in 1913 UP & SP were forced to break up because of monopoly.......but then in 1986 the SP & SF merger was denied because of monopoly. Finally, UP was permitted to purchase or takeover SP. in 1996....What happened to the Monopoly claims???