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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
WP GP40 3516 has just crossed the American River and rolls eastbound towards Orovile on a hazy winter day in November 1978.
Kodachrome 64 Slide
21F must sound like someone turned on the electric blanket to some of you, but it is really tough on the birds in this area...This little female Downy WP is taking advantage of some high nutrition suet, to hold her over until tomorrow...
The reward for me is getting to watch them...
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.
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.