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In April 1980 WP 3530 east is departing the South Sacramento siding and crossing 21st Street. The east end of the South Sacramento yard featured a “runaway track”, which kept equipment in the yard or the siding from rolling eastward out of the yard. Over the years I was photographing trains here, I did document several cabooses which found their way into the runway track.
Kodachrome 64 Slide - April 1980
Western Pacific (WP) EMD SW9 602 is resting in the WP Yard in Oakland, CA on Tuesday, June 5, 1973.
WP 602 was reportedly built in 1952 by EMD as a model SW9, builders number 16637, WP 602, class S62. Sold in 1984 to to a fertilizer company in Canada.