SP's QUEST FOR POWER: History of the 1960s
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- This is one chapter of a 1-hour and 43-minute DVD production. Available on www.cspmovies.com
Great material from 19 sources shot in many locations out west. See FM and ALCO and many rare SP units.
This brings the 1942 to 1975 era on the SP with E, F units and early GP9 and SD9 power. Don’t miss out on the first U- boats. These GE locomotives had some problems. But GE eventually worked their way to the top of the locomotive business by pecking away at EMD.
See the greater San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles environs, Glendale’s old Taylor Yard, Colton Crossing, and many extinct branchlines. See the opening of the new Colton Yard and the building and early days of the Cajon Pass line for the SP and its bypass of Los Angeles for north-south through-traffic.
Passenger and freight trains abound. Special Shasta, Cascade and even Kaiser ore trains from Iron Mountain near the Salton Sea - plus great and extensive Cajon Pass and Tehachapi action and much more.
This is a wealth of vintage SP material - all shot on vintage movie film by former SP employees and many, very savvy railfans.
To quote Railfan & Railroad magazine, “….the quality and depth of the information in the narration is so great. A must for SP fans I would think, as well as students of motive power evolution, use and disposition.”
SP experimented quite a lot with high-powered locomotives during the 1960's with the Kraus-Maffei ML4000 and the GE U50, but most of them failed due to serious reliability issues. SP only finally got the high-powered locomotives they wanted when the SD40 and SD45 became widely available by the late 1960's.
Charles, quick question.....you have the most incredible video history of the SP. My question is, are there any videos that exist showing any of the SP units with the red emergency light on? Ive never seen a video of that actually working and was wondering are there videos that show it in operation. Thanks for all these wonderful videos.
After repeatedly being blasted with unscipable and unblockable advertising I had to give up watching. My first locomotive was an SP engine so it saddens me to just say no to the Google Greed.