Nostalgia & History > An SP Piggyback North of Roseville

Southern Pacific SD45 8920 leads an Oregon bound train just north of Roseville, CA in the late 1970s.

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Sunset Whitney 1st siding north (east) of Roseville

Steve

Great photos!

Regards, Smorgnosh Ogunda

Great looking train, pigs, reefers, 40 ft GN boxcar, flares on the point and' no doubt, a caboose on the rear.

Drove through here last year, wall to wall houses, shopping malls, new intersections. It doesn't look like the 70's anymore.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/30/15 08:09 by TCnR.

Nice looking trio, thanks for sharing.  Those SP flares and bay window sure look nice.

Kent in CArmel Valley

LABRT

I wonder if all that stuff on the front was fill or a normal part of the consist?

MaineLines Wrote:
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> I wonder if all that stuff on the front was fill
> or a normal part of the consist?

A perishable pickup, forwarder traffic for Superior FF, loads of autos for Portland

Looks like a shifted load 3 trailers ahead of the caboose.   Sphogger

Could this be OABRT running via Roseville rather than on the West Valley Line,
Dick Eisfeller

SP had a habit of filling a hot train with a bunch of regular cars, usually on the head-end. Looks like BN stuff, maybe for KF, maybe for Portland. Interesting to see things before the solid pigs or today's doublestacks. Very much the kind of look that people remember the SP for.

Regular 376 traffic. Pig for KF or EU on headend.

Just noticed those are SP beer cars. Interesting to see their status in the train.

TCnR Wrote:
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> Just noticed those are SP beer cars. Interesting
> to see their status in the train.

Not beer cars, ex- Evergreen cars used in lumber service, handling LCL for Superior Fast Freight

Great set of photos, thanks for posting and giving us something to talk about.

You're welcome. I've learned a lot here. 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/30/15 20:24 by MaineLines.

 I noticed that the 'flare screens" ( I don't know the specific name) are different. The lead unit has a continuous design, where the 2nd  seems to be in 3 sections.  It reminds me of the flare screens on the later SD70m's, that look like they are in sections also.  Did something change, dictating a change in screen design??

GP30Frank Wrote:
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>  I noticed that the 'flare screens" ( I don't
> know the specific name) are different. The lead
> unit has a continuous design, where the 2nd 
> seems to be in 3 sections.  It reminds me of the
> flare screens on the later SD70m's, that look like
> they are in sections also.  Did something change,
> dictating a change in screen design??

They're not continuous (might look that way from the angle), but rather are split into three distinct sections.  The lead SD45 features the standard EMD applied radiator grilles like this

http://espee.railfan.net/nonindex/sd45_photos/8950_sp-sd45-rob_sarberenyi.jpg

The trailing SD45 is equipped with Farr air filters on the radiator grilles, specified on Espee SD45s beginning with SP 8982 built in December 1968

http://espee.railfan.net/nonindex/sd45_photos/8983_sp-sd45-rob_sarberenyi.jpg
http://espee.railfan.net/nonindex/sd45_photos/9082_sp-sd45-robert_sarberenyi.jpg 

Roster and photos of SP SD45s
http://espee.railfan.net/spsd45.html

Roster of all EMD SD45s built new
http://www.trainweb.org/jaydeet/sd45.htm

Rob

SP's East Valley Line at its finest! Love the SD45's and the Bay Window caboose, along with the PFE reefer. Thanks for sharing, these photos bring back lots of great memories!

ShastaDaylight

 Rob, thanks for your response.
   Frank, in Tennessee