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Date: 03/22/26 09:56
SP Special on the Coastline
Author: Fiftyfooter

SDP-45's 3201 and 3207 hustle an SP business train at Seacliff in 1980. The business cars and the SDs sure looked good speeding up the Coast!

 



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/22/26 10:05 by Fiftyfooter.

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Date: 03/22/26 10:24
Re: SP Special on the Coastline
Author: atsf121

Fantastic!

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Date: 03/22/26 11:34
Re: SP Special on the Coastline
Author: Notch7

Great pacing video. Super engines and consist.

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Date: 03/22/26 14:47
Re: SP Special on the Coastline
Author: swaool

Nice!  Hard to beat the sound of six-wheel trucks on jointed rail.

mike woodruff
north platte ne



Date: 03/22/26 15:57
Re: SP Special on the Coastline
Author: dan

battleships



Date: 03/22/26 20:05
Re: SP Special on the Coastline
Author: GP25

Were these cars have their own power source or did the SP Units provide the HEP?

Jerry Martin
Los Angeles, CA
Central Coast Railroad Festival



Date: 03/22/26 22:10
Re: SP Special on the Coastline
Author: dan

pre HEP those units still had steam generators perhaps, the office cars may have been able to power themselves



Date: 03/22/26 23:35
Re: SP Special on the Coastline
Author: badman

The baggage car behind the SDP45s was a HEP generator car. The business-observation cars had onboard generators, while the support lounge/crew cars needed the HEP car. SDP45s still had their steam generators (3201 and 3207 kept them until retirement in 1989), but the conversion to HEP made them redundant other than for their passenger gearing.

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