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Built as Union Pacific Railroad 1000, obtained by Western Pacific Railroad in 1968, transferred to Sacramento Northern Railroad in 1973, re-acquired by Union Pacific in 1982; donated to Deer Creek Scenic Railway, later sold to Nevada Southern Railroad. [6] 608 Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California: 705: October 1952
The Western Pacific Railroad Museum (WPRM) holds in its collection a total of twenty-nine diesel locomotives, one electric locomotive, one steam locomotive, fifteen passenger cars, numerous freight and maintenance cars and eighteen cabooses. They offer excursions and a "Run A Locomotive" program during the summer.
On static display at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California [47] 24567 November 1967 CA-13-2 On static display at the RailGiants Train Museum, in Pomona, California. [48] 25049 June 1942 CA-3 On static display at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California [49] 25256 June 1959 CA-5
Twenty-five Big Boy locomotives, which weigh 1.2 million pounds and are 130 feet long, were completed for Union Pacific in 1941. No. 4014 then drove 1,031,205 miles and was in service for 20 years ...
The museum's mission is to preserve the history of the Western Pacific Railroad and is operated by the Feather River Rail Society (reporting mark FRRX), [1] founded in 1983. [2] It is located at a former Western Pacific locomotive facility, adjacent to the Union Pacific's former Western Pacific mainline through the Feather River Canyon. [3]
Western Pacific 94 is a preserved TP-29 class 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler type steam locomotive built in September 1909 by the American Locomotive Company for the Western Pacific Railroad. It is preserved on display at the Western Railway Museum in Suisun City, California. This locomotive was the first steam locomotive to travel on the Feather River Route.
Western Pacific Railroad: 251-260 Baldwin Locomotive Works: 1931, 1938 Steam 2-8-8-2: 487 tonnes (537 short tons) 610 kilonewtons (137,174 lbf) — Largest steam locomotives owned by Western Pacific. [13] MPXpress MP54AC: GO Transit: 667-682 MotivePower Industries: 2017-2018 Diesel-electric Bo'Bo' 127–132 tonnes (140–145 short tons)
The Union Pacific heritage fleet includes commemorative and historic equipment owned by the Union Pacific Railroad.The fleet currently consists of two historic steam locomotives, three historic diesel locomotives, seventeen modern diesel locomotives in historic or commemorative paint schemes and nearly four dozen passenger cars used on office car specials and excursion trains.