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Static display, Southern Arizona Transportation Museum (Southern Pacific Depot), Tucson, Arizona: 1727: M-6 2-6-0: Static display, in Dunsmuir, California at the Dunsmuir City Park and Botanical Gardens: 1744: M-6 2-6-0: The Pacific Locomotive Association purchased and began the restoration to bring No. 1744 back into operation on the Niles ...
Pages in category "Southern Pacific Railroad locomotives" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Southern Pacific Transportation Company was acquired in 1996 by the Union Pacific Corporation and merged with their Union Pacific Railroad. The Southern Pacific legacy founded hospitals in San Francisco, Tucson, and Houston. In the 1970s, it also founded a telecommunications network with a state-of-the-art microwave and fiber optic backbone.
Southern Pacific 9010 is a KM ML 4000 C'C' diesel-hydraulic locomotive, built in 1964 by German manufacturer Krauss-Maffei for the Southern Pacific Railroad. SP 9010 generated 4,000 horsepower (3,000 kW) from two 2,000-horsepower (1,500 kW) V16 Maybach MD870 diesel engines .
After much research, the Southern Pacific found that using many diesel–electric locomotives with continual high stress on the traction motors wore out the electrical equipment. SP decided to experiment with diesel–hydraulic locomotives and stunned the railroad industry by purchasing three 3,540 horsepower (2,640 kW) ML-4000 type locomotives ...
The EMD SD9 is a model of diesel locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between January 1954 and June 1959. An EMD 567C 16- cylinder engine generated 1,750 horsepower (1.30 MW). Externally similar to its predecessor, the SD7 , the SD9 was built with the improved and much more maintainable 567C engine.
The Southern Pacific Transportation Company rebuilt a total of 167 EMD SD45 units into EMD SD45R diesel locomotives at their own Sacramento Shops under the Southern Pacific's M-99 rebuild program and renumbered their units as 7400 through 7566. Most of them in their SD45 form were classified by the Southern Pacific as EF636-1, EF636-2, EF636-3 ...
The ALCO C-643DH, also known as the Century 643DH, was a twin-engine diesel-hydraulic locomotive, the first diesel-hydraulic road switcher built in the United States. It had a C-C wheel arrangement and generated 4,300 horsepower (3,200 kW). Only three were built, all for Southern Pacific Railroad in 1964 (#9018–#9020).