THE MIGHTY SOUTHERN PACIFIC

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. A step back through the last fifty years on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Some Locations: Oakland and San Jose San Joaquin Line Cajon Pass 1967 Tehachapi 1955-1971 Los Angeles area Taylor Yard 1965 Colton Crossing Kaiser ore at Ferrum Santa Paula Branch Burbank Branch Cascade and Shasta And much more

[toolsteel]

All those boxcars & not a lick of graffiti. I enjoy these vintage railroad videos, thanks for sharing.

[mikes]

While the airlines and the interstates were subsidized the railroads were subject to rules that kept the rails from being efficient and the trucks took off on the freeways

[brentmiller]

I love your SP videos. My father worked for SP and they had a huge presence in the small Oregon coastal town I grew up in .my father never mentioned any of the struggles SP went through in the 80" s he was a good man.

[charleswoods]

Hey My Favorite Western Railroad has all ways been the Southern Pacific and along with the Cotton Belt and a long with the DRGW Railroad this was a great video back in the 1970 s and the 1980 s

[chuckhalen]

I seriously love all these SP videos. Such a unique RR and they just seem to have a style all their own. I could watch this type of railroading for hours. The railroads that I loved from my youth were obviously the SP, KCS, ICG and MoPac. Those were my lines.

[ShlomoZOGelstein]

I miss watching those southern pacific locos roaring by the campsite of the beaches of carpinteria. That was many years ago as a kid. These are great videos. Reminds me of better times and when southern pacific ruled the rails in southern california.

[echohunter]

Thank you very much for sharing with us some of the fine work everyone involved produced in your company. I ordered this DVD for my dad who retired from SP/UP in 2005 I order one DVD a month for him as a gift.

[sirblack]

I really miss seeing SP and Rio Grande when they were separate railroads. They both has a certain character about them.

[Jscribe]

I have this DVD. I never get tired of seeing its content.

[steverudder]

Charles Smiley Videos are always the Best!
Educational and understandable and high on the "WOW" factor rating! 🇺🇸👏👏👏👏👏

[charleswoods]

Hey back here in Kentucky which is in Louisville Ky in this was Louisville and Nashville and Illinois Central Gulf and Southern Railway Territory area I seen Quite a bit of Southern Pacific and Cotton Belt Locomotives here a lot mostly on our L and N and the ICG Rail lines here in Louisville but not so much on our Southern Railway but I seen SP and SSW units only a few times on the Southern Railway but on the Southern I have seen Santa Fe and Burlington Northern many times here in Louisville but one Railroad we have never seen here in Louisville was Union Pacific and DRGW locomotives Well I mean more then one Railroad but that was back in the 1970 s and the 1980 s

[garfield]

Amazing footage.
That was proper railroading back then.

[mec]

Wicked nice !! Thank you. I spied an old Maine Central car on one of those trains.

[toolsteel]

Oh those classic pickup trucks at around 14:40.

[toolsteel]

Impressive commodity statistics by SP.

[DavidJuhl-ry]

One of the best things about these old videos is the absence of grafitti!

[toolsteel]

Ferrum, Latin for iron. I did not know Kaiser steel had road units.

[kennyirish]

I sure do miss the scarlet and gray, Wish the people at SP could've been better at keeping it alive. What a shame

[EllieMaes-Grandad]

No comment on the twin caboose set-up on so many trains. Much of interest is missed . . .

[romcat]

Anyone know the unit number of the F unit at the beginning? 64xx? An FP7? Thanks.