THE MIGHTY SOUTHERN PACIFIC

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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
  • "DIESEL POWER ON THE SP" www.cspmovies.com
    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

Комментарии • 26

  • @toolsteel8482
    @toolsteel8482 Месяц назад +10

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

    • @mikes7639
      @mikes7639 26 дней назад +3

      They didnt sell spray paint at 7=11like now

  • @echohunter4199
    @echohunter4199 12 дней назад +2

    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.

  • @brentmiller3951
    @brentmiller3951 Месяц назад +14

    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.

    • @louradman7166
      @louradman7166 Месяц назад +4

      My father, grandfather, uncle and aunt all worked for the SP, that was also my dream to become a locomotive engineer, did not quite work out that way. But I did get to ride the city of San Francisco, San Joaquin, daylight and sunset limited in the 60s.. those were great days. Yes they never complained about their job. They were also very good people. God Bless.

  • @chuckhalen9543
    @chuckhalen9543 Месяц назад +4

    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.

  • @J3scribe
    @J3scribe Месяц назад +5

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

  • @sirblack1619
    @sirblack1619 Месяц назад +4

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

  • @steverudder3321
    @steverudder3321 Месяц назад +3

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

  • @mikes7639
    @mikes7639 26 дней назад +4

    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

  • @mec253
    @mec253 Месяц назад +2

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

  • @1978garfield
    @1978garfield Месяц назад +3

    Amazing footage.
    That was proper railroading back then.

  • @toolsteel8482
    @toolsteel8482 Месяц назад +2

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

  • @toolsteel8482
    @toolsteel8482 Месяц назад +2

    Oh those classic pickup trucks at around 14:40.

  • @toolsteel8482
    @toolsteel8482 Месяц назад +1

    Impressive commodity statistics by SP.

  • @brett2618
    @brett2618 Месяц назад +4

    I miss the power of the 50s 60s 70s

  • @johncamp2567
    @johncamp2567 Месяц назад +4

    Very interesting early film of the Palmdale Cut-off construction! 🛤️

  • @sebastianbarthel2393
    @sebastianbarthel2393 Месяц назад +2

    0:55 A Krauss Maffei!

  • @kennyirish5021
    @kennyirish5021 Месяц назад +7

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

    • @remylopez4821
      @remylopez4821 Месяц назад +2

      That would make a great heritage unit

    • @1978garfield
      @1978garfield Месяц назад +3

      @@remylopez4821 UP needs to do another round of Heritage Units but this time copy NS an use actual vintage paint jobs.
      I would love to see scarlet and grey, black widow and daylight units.
      Would also love to see a Cotton Belt unit or 2.
      Out of the original Heritage Units I only really liked how the MOPAC unit came out.
      It was a nice mix of the passenger Eagle paint scheme and the Turbo Eagle freight paint.
      I would love to see a proper Jenks blue Turbo Eagle again.

    • @ronaldvrooman9695
      @ronaldvrooman9695 Месяц назад +3

      ​@@1978garfieldI wouldn't expect that from today's Union Pacific. I'd be happy if they proved me wrong.

  • @EllieMaes-Grandad
    @EllieMaes-Grandad 19 дней назад +1

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