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Southern Pacific Vol 5 In Color 1980 and Beyond Mergers & Memories SP by Boyd DJ
SP Southern Pacific Vol 5 In Color 1980 and Beyond Mergers & Memories by Jim Boyd Morning Sun Books
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
128 pages
Copyright 2004
CONTENTS
FOREWORD / 3
INTRODUCTION / 5
CHAPTER 1 Caltrans Takes Over / 6 The Imron Daylight/ 8 Railfair 1981 / 12 Dunsmuir, West Virginia / 16 Continuing Sacramento Rebuilds / 20 Sold in San Diego / 24 Return of the California Zephyr! 26 February on the Coast Starlight/ 28 Dabbling in Daylights / 30 Louisiana World's Fair Daylight / 32 More New Four-Motors / 38 Bye Bye Big Boats / 40 The New Push-Pull CalTrain / 42
CHAPTER 2 Mama, Don't Take My Kodachromes Away / 44 SPSF: Shouldn't Paint So Fast/ 56 Tough Guys Daylight/ 58 Scarlet Returns to Tara / 60 Life After the Commutes / 64
CHAPTER 3 The Grande Years / 66 GRIP II: The SD45T-2R's / 68 Sacramento Locomotive Works / 70 The Pride of Pine Bluff / 72 50 Years of LAUPT / 74 Last New SP Classics / 76 Steam in the Pacific / 78 MK GP40-2s / 80 The Need for Speed (Lettering) / 82 C44-9W's: First Super Cabs / 88 The SD7OM's / 90 MK5000C's: Five More Than Ingalls / 94 MK SD40M-2s / 96 AC4400CW's: The Final Fleet / 98 The Last SP Locomotives / 102 "You Will be Assimilated ..." / 104 Changes at Caltrain / 106 Pepsi Cans and Genesises / 108
CHAPTER 4 Memories / 110 Steam to Diesel / 114 Geeps, Beets and Woodies / 118 Trestles in the Timber / 122 Living Memories / 124 Map and Rosters / 127 Epilogue: SP 1000 / 128
INTRODUCTION
THE YEAR 1980 was the calm before the storm. The Southern Pacific was on the verge of a decade-and-a-half of dramatic and traumatic change, but the system looked deceptively normal, in spite of some significant changes. Amtrak had resolved the intercity passenger situation, and there were the usual operating problems, Jimmy Carter's economic "malaise," motive power surpluses and politics in the corporate offices, but the SP still looked and acted like the SP.
Elsewhere in the Wild, Wild West, the Hill lines had fulfilled their destiny by becoming the Burlington Northern in 1970, and that big system was about to gobble up the Frisco and reach all the way to Florida. The Union Pacific would soon retaliate by absorbing the Western Pacific and Missouri Pacific, leaving the SP surrounded by giant predators.
In 1980 the SP picked up the Tucumcari to St. Louis line from the defunct Rock Island, and the State of California took over the Peninsula commutes. Things looked normal, but things would never be the same again.
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