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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 Baldwin VO-1000 is a diesel-electric switcher locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works between January 1939 and December 1946. These units were powered by a naturally aspirated eight-cylinder diesel engine rated at 1,000 horsepower (746 kW), and rode on a pair of two-axle trucks in a B-B wheel arrangement.
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.
Western Pacific (WP) operated the California Zephyr passenger train with the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The WP handled the "Silver Lady" from Oakland, California, to Salt Lake City, Utah from 1949 to 1970. The Western Pacific owned several connecting short-line railroads.
Union Pacific Railroad (UP) March 26, 1997 Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California: August 20, 2013 [42] 22808 Royal Gorge 5305 July 1957 SD9 Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&GRW) Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP) OmniTRAX (OMLX) - Cañon City, Colorado: October 2012 [43] [44] [45]
Western Pacific No. 563, one of two S-4s purchased by that railroad, is preserved at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California. [2] Erie Railroad S-2 No. 518 is at the Meadville Railroad Depot Museum. New York, Susquehanna and Western S-2 No. 206 remains on static display at the Maywood Station Museum in Maywood, New Jersey. [9]
The other major Western railroad, BNSF, would likely also have seen a big jump in shipments, but their results won't be public until their parent company, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway ...
Operational, Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association, Campo, California: 5208: Baldwin DRS-6-6-1500: Stored, California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, California 5253: Baldwin AS-616: Static display, Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Portola, California 5274: Baldwin AS-616 Static display, Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Portola ...