SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S GIANT GE U-50'S & RARE EMDS

Glistening vintage color film of Southern Pacific's world famous Coast Line Route. See Santa Barbara in the early forties with daylights and troop trains all pulled by steam. Huge cab forwards are also shown with long blocks of reefers. View the men and women of the SP over sixty years ago, all pitching in for the war effort. Southern Pacific's transition from steam to diesel is well covered with plenty of F-units in both bloody nose and black widow liveries. Visit Old Taylor Yard with lots of GP-9's and SD-7's and witness some of SP's rare DD-35B's and the giant U-50's in West Colton transfer service. Also included is classic Tehachapi, Beaumont Hill and Old Cajon Pass with U-33C's and older SD-39's and GP-35's as helper and mainline power. Climb aboard passenger excursions on the freight only Santa Paula and Burbank Branches powered by sets of F-Units.

[charlessmileyvideos]

A look at some of Southern Pacific's rare GE engines and older EMD power! www.cspmovies.com

[chiefknowstomuch]

I love seeing any footage from the Taylor Yard, my grandfather retired from there after working 33 years. That was before I was born and that was in 72.

[w.w.restorations.vehicles]

Great video! My 1st. memories were my Mom holding me up to look out our service porch door window in our home on Patterson Ave. in Glendale, at San Fernando Rd. so I could watch the trains go past. There were still some Steam Loco's pulling cars, that was back in 1967. I was 3 years old. The 134 Fwy is in place now where Patterson Ave. used to

[SPSteve]

SD45, the big block muscle car of the rails

[danvargas]

Fantastic Video always appreciate your research and history of SP, Awesome Production as Always.
This is kind of nudge needed to get Our 2 Rail layout started!
Best
Dan Vargas

[russelldesalvo]

Lots of fallen flags on the last train including SP itself. SP and UP merged into one, The town I grew up in saw regular switching service by an SW1 . Used to love to watch them work

[christophernavarro]

Thank You 🙏🏻 Very Very Much For All of this FANTASTIC Footage!!! It Is Several Places I Always wanted to go
On The SP…I Spent
Several Of My Teen
Age Years On The Eastern End Of The SP, Where It Turned
Into It’s Subsidiary
SSW…It’s Fascinating seeing
Cotton Belt Power all The Way Out West! Of the Common Power on
The Houston Sub,
4 axle GP20s were
Quite common, &in
This Video I Only Saw 1?!? Anyhow
GREAT VIDEO AND I
REALLY MISS THE SP, Their Yard, Here In Shreveport, La.
Has Been Whittled Down to basically an Interchange yard &
A Roundhouse Plowed under for
Approx A Decade

[ronaldvrooman]

A small correction: Taylor Yard was in the Cypress Park district of Los Angeles; the city of Glendale is roughly two miles to the north. The Metrolink maintenance shops and storage tracks now stand on a portion of the old Taylor Yard property; the rest of the land got redeveloped.
Your videos are always excellent! The footage is great, and your commentary is full of pertinent facts and historical context.

[tigerphid]

I have always loved the old "bulldog" U-boats with the short snouts....

[mowncry]

Well I can say I have run a few sort of GP 9 3194 built as 3001 and not running yet but Golden gate railroad Museum also has F7's 6378 and 6380 and 6378 just happens to be the first diesel of any kind to get the bloody nose paint job

[thomas]

Interesting Video! Oh, at Minute 0:46, the last Locomotive was an Experiment from SP, Germann Diesel Hydraulic Locomotive. I think, build by Krauss Maffei Munic.

[gerfmon]

Ah, the old days before everything turned yellow..

[GojiramusPrimeBug]

I asked my grandpa about all these locomotives the Southern Pacific had and he remembers quite well I even asked him about the experimental Turbine locomotives the UP experimented with and how they were banned in very populated areas of California

[beeble]

7:44 "The last [helper] is an aging SD9, still an asset... in 1973."
Actually, not so old: SP 4352 was 17 years old, and had been rebuilt only a year before you filmed it. Even the oldest SD9s were only 19 years old in 1973.

[beeble]

2:46, 4:17, 4:51, 9:04 Why are the crews so often wandering around the locomotives?

[Peter-mtlg]

So the moral of the story is locomotive's don't last forever. 👍

[phmoffett]

Hard to convince me railroad operations are safer without a caboose.