Remarkable Engines: Southern Pacifc #1, Little Giant

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This episode goes over the extensive history of the only narrow gauge diesel locomotive which the Southern Pacific ever rostered, as well as some history of the Carson and Colorado and some of its locomotives.
I know this is not Santa Fe 1010,even though I said in the previous episode that 1010 would be the next engine to be reviewed, but I explain why I am doing this engine and a few others before 1010.

All music used in this video is from the YouTube Audio Library.

Credit for Photos Used Without Watermarks: Bob Pilatos, seneferu, Otto C. Perry, Donald Duke, Wide World (Corpus Christi Caller-Times), Clipper Lines, Rick Cooper, Kendig, Nevada State Railroad Museum, Mark Baldwin, NPS/Earl Douglass Diaries, Louis Charles McClure, Richard Boehle, Forbes/Rich McCutchan, Lyman Cox, Mallory Hope, Everett N. Young, Joe Dale Morris, Eddie Sims, Phil Serpico, Inyo County Sesquicentennial, Kistler, Fred M. Springer (Center for Railroad Photography & Art), Michael Lumert, Trevor Summons, u/WunderStug, RY Models, Roger Puta, OldTownKern.

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Music used in order:
Beach Walk - Unicorn Heads
Big Sciota - Nat Keefe with The Bow Ties
Potato Deal - Craig MacArthur
Take Me To The Depths - Midnight North
How We Like It - Dan Lebowitz
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Thank you for posting. These pictures are the first I have found showing the narrow gauge wheels are pulled in from each side with the side-frames remaining at standard gauge width. The brakes must not be visible, but also modified to match the wheels. I have wondered about this as all HO models also keep the truck side frames wide and only move the wheels inward. I had been planning to also shrink the width of the trucks, but this seems un-prototypical now.

StationaryDingleberry
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Again another great video, and glad to see SPNG #1 gaining some recognition. :)

To add on a few things, it seems apparent at this point that SP 1 may indeed be scrapped. A few years ago some scrappers came by the Cananea plant and cleared everything out. Locomotive may have been included with the equipment. Shame she couldn’t have been preserved... but plenty of sister locomotives still exist fortunately.

Little Giant herself is a GE 50 ton model which has been built for several narrow-gauge lines across the US, which includes two diesels from the Sumpter Valley and US Gypsum line in Plaster City. Those engines are now at the Colorado RR Museum. :)

Nictrain
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White Pass and Yukon is another example and it actually outlasted some of these railroads, it continued running Revenue trains until 1982 and they're the only Narrow Gauge Railroad that completely switched to diesel as far as I know

RailPreserverK
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I love the SPNg, I didnt know they had a little diesel to run around with the little 10 wheelers. Cute little diesel. Also, SPNg #8 is also still around, she sits in Sparks Nevada just north of the Nugget Hotel & Casino on the other side of I-80

WasatchGarandMan
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Great video!
Thanks for posting.
For several years I’ve bee looking for all the info I can find on the SP#1.
I’m attempting to build a 12” gauge model of this locomotive.

curtissscott
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theres actually several of these 50 tons built

CoalChrome
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3:48. HAHAHA! So funny!
Engine number 9




(Shows a picture of US army number 4023).

jeremyasher
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the Sumpter Valley Railroad has two narrow gauge 50 tonners though so is it really one of a kind?

oregonrailfan
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Wow. I never knew the Espee operated a narrow gauge, and especially one with a diesel.

FreihEitner
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".. and the Sern pacific." I have never heard of that rail line. Can you elucidate? The (Unintelligable). SLOW DOWN. Why do you post material with slurred words. Twice you stopped to correct the mash-up you made of names. What is the matter with you. Don't you listen to your own recordings???

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