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WP GP40 3508 glistens in the May afternoon sunlight at the east end of WP’s South Sacramento yard.
Kodachrome 64 Slide- May 10, 1980
WP 913 leads the San Jose Turn just west of Altamont with a mixed bag of empty autoracks for Milpitas and other assorted traffic for the WP's South Bay customers.
Ektachrome Slide - May 1979
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.
Western Pacific Bicentennial GP40 #1976 leads an early morning freight out of Stockton California on 08-24-1978.She was built in 09-1971 as #3541 and was eventually returned back to its original #.Following is UP SD40-2 #3234 and WP U23B #2261. A Southern Pacific freight can be seen in the background and #1976 will be crossing the Santa Fe main at Stockton Tower momentarily. Howard Kent Jr. photo.
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
Of all the interesting relics I've discovered around Utah's Tintic Mining District, this Western Pacific Monocoach trailer is one of the more unusual. Spotted near Union Pacific's Lynndyl Subdivision at Tintic Junction, it was previously used by a Western Pacific roadmaster before the UP-WP merger in 1983. By July 27, 1986, it was in maintenance of way service.