Nostalgia & History > WP F7s in Stockton 1973

WP F7 in Stockton — Western Pacific (WP) EMD F7 913-A is resting in the WP Power Pool in Stockton, CA on a Sunday afternoon in 1973.
According to good sources, including Joseph Strapac's Diesel Locomotives of the Western Pacific, WP 913-A was reportedly built in 1950 by EMD as a model F7A, builders number 8976, WP 920-A, class D-239. It became WP 913-A in 1971, renumbered 913 in 1975, overhauled by MK in 1978 and donated in 1981 to the California State Railroad Museum.

I hope you enjoy these:

Steve Sloan
San José, CA

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And one more...

~Steve

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And another after a cleanup - CSRM 2013

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And yet another one...

Taken from the Tower Bridge, looking down the Capitol Mall, WP 913 leads the day's first run of the Polar Express holiday train at 3:30 p.m. on Friday December 16, 2011 crossing the Lincoln Highway in Sacramento, CA.

~Steve Sloan
San José, CA

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What a beautiful picture in Sacramento!  Thanks.

I'm sure glad to see they kept those Leslie air horns on her.  Just wouldn't be the same with a lame Nathan model. 

ExStarlightHog Wrote:
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> I'm sure glad to see they kept those Leslie air
> horns on her.  Just wouldn't be the same with a
> lame Nathan model. 

The F7's and F3's always had the Leslie air horns. The FP7's were the only carbody units that had the Nathan M5's.

> The F7's and F3's always had the Leslie air horns.
> The FP7's were the only carbody units that had the
> Nathan M5's.

Negatory Ghost Rider. F3A 803A also had a M5.

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Is that Oroville ?