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A&WP #38709 was one of 100 such 60-ton waffle side boxcars built by the SCL from PS components in late 1971 to early 1972. I have no idea what service they were in, but photos pop up with them in far away places. This car was in Jackson MS on November 8th 1977. No photographer listed, JL Sessa collection.
Amtrak's westbound Feather River Express drifts across Rock Creek on the homeward leg of the 2011 Portola Railroad Days excursion. On this day the heartbeat of the Feather River Route's former owner, Western Pacific, takes the pleasant chords of the turbo-charged 567 prime mover inside former Western Pacific GP20 2001. The pioneering La Grange graduate, the first production GP20 built, today calls the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA home. For two consecutive years (2010-2011) the veteran EMD was allowed to pilot the Feather River Express, through its namesake Canyon, between Portola and Oroville, harkening back to an age when the presence of orange and silver painted EMDs was a daily ritual in Northern California.
WP 2001 ~ AMT985 ~ Rock Creek, California
Union Pacific's Canyon Subdivision
08.21.2011
Western Pacific's Greenville, California depot in better days, November 25, 1972. IIRC, the depot has been gone for some time.
Was vacationing with my wife in California in 1978 and was extremely lucky to catch the Western Pacific "Milpitas F's" working the Ford plant in Milpitas. I caught them working the plant at 7am, followed them down to San Jose, and caught them once again on their way back to Stockton. This is a photo of them on their return trip through Milpitas with the Ford plant in the distance beyond the overpass. At the time of the photo there were only 4 active F's operating on the WP.
F7 913,GP40 3513, F7's 917 and 921. Howard Kent Jr. 08-23-1975.
WP Alco S2 #560 idles the afternoon away in the WP Stockton yard. In scanning my dad's negatives, I have realized the WP's Alco switchers seem to have received the "Pumpkin" paint scheme more thoroughly than their EMD and Baldwin counterparts.
Kodacolor Negative by Bob Black- John Black Collection. 1924