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WP GP40 3538 leads a piggy back train eastbound out of Portola in June 1978. Already the UP is showing it's presence on the WP property as a prelude of thing to come in the future.
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Estrada das Pedrinhas, Bairro Gomeral.
Ligação pela Zona Rural entre as cidades Guaratinguetá e Campos do Jordão, ambas no estado de São Paulo.
On an extremely hot day in July 1978, WP 913 leads the “Fab Four” at Mossdale California making a run for the eastern approach to the Altamont Pass grade with the SJT.
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WP GP35 3004 was involved in a side swipe accident somewhere on the WP, and hos found it's way to the WP's Sacramento Jeffrey Shops for evaluation and repair. Once repaired, the unit will emerge with a new EMD cab without the iconic WP "Golden Glow" reflector headlight, and will sport a standard twin sealed beam headlight and will be repainted into WP's new corporate color of Pearlman Green.
Kodacolor Negative by Bob Black- John Black Collection. 1069
WP GP7 705 is still wearing it's factory orange and silver paint in July of 1975 as seen here at South Sacramento.
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WP GE U30B 3071 leads a westbound train approaching the summit of Altamont Pass at Altamont California in March 1979.
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WP GP35 3013 hustles a SN Detour train across the Santa Fe at Oakley California in September 1977.
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WP GP40 3512 leads a trio of GEs eastbound in a small plume of diesel exhaust in June 1978.
Today the tracks and businesses are gone from this location, and so are the locomotives. The 3512 would live on into the UP era before being retired in the 1990s and then finding its way to KCS ownership. It is unknown it it still survives on the KCS as 2820.
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Western Pacific GP35 3017 leads the westbound WPW manifest at Tobin, CA in the Feather River Canyon below the snowline on a west and cold November 27, 1981 afternoon.
The sun is setting and the shadows grow longer as WP X3542W is leaving Portola, CA after the crew change on September 5, 1982.
WP ALCO S4 #564 wearing a well worn coat of "Pumpkin" orange sits on the switcher tie up track just below the Stockton yard tower. The 564 will go on to become CCT 50 and later be sold off to Foster Farms in Livingston CA.
Kodacolor Negative by Bob Black- John Black Collection. 1421