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The GS-2s were streamlined and designed by Southern Pacific Company for high-speed passenger service in 1935. They featured a silver smokebox with a cone-shaped single headlight casing, skyline casing on the top of the boiler, skirting on the sides, and an air horn.
Tuscan red is a shade of red that was used on some railroad cars, particularly passenger cars. The color is most closely associated with the Pennsylvania Railroad , which used it on passenger cars and on its TrucTrain flatcars .
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 ...
The Southern Pacific Class Mt-5 is a class of 4-8-2 Mountain steam locomotives built between 1929 and 1930 by the Southern Pacific's own Sacramento shops. There were 10 locomotives built in the class. They were retired between 1953 and 1958. None survived into preservation.
The popularity of the Southern Pacific Coast Daylight trains was overwhelming and prompted the Southern Pacific to initiate plans to introduce several new streamlined, lightweight trains: the Noon Daylight, the San Joaquin Daylight, and the Lark. A second order for 14 additional Daylight engines was placed with Lima Locomotive Works.
In the mid-to-late 1890s, the Southern Pacific Railroad needed more motive power for heavy passenger usage on the Southern Pacific's system. The Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works and the Schenectady Locomotive Works were tasked on building and refining a new locomotive from scratch and from the drawing board for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
In all, a total of 15 locomotives of what had become the Southern Pacific Class P-8 were ever constructed by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1921 and they were all numbered as 2461-2475. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They were designed to be used on the Southern Pacific specifically for the Overland Route from Ogden, Utah , to Oakland, California .
The AC-9 was one of two Southern Pacific Railroad's articulated steam locomotive classes that ran smokebox forward after 1920. Twelve AC-9 class locomotives were built by Lima in 1939 and were Southern Pacific's largest and heaviest steam engines, partly a consequence of low quality coal these engines were designed to burn.