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Displayed at right is the color Tuscan tan. The first recorded use of Tuscan tan as a color name in English was in 1926. [14] The normalized color coordinates for Tuscan tan are identical to café au lait and French beige, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1839 [15] and 1927, [16] respectively.
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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 ...
The Southern Pacific Red Electric Lines, also known simply as the Red Electric, was a network of interurban passenger train services operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad in the Willamette Valley of the U.S. state of Oregon from 1914 to 1929. [2] The service got its name from the bright red color of its cars.
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.
During her brief career with the Southern, 2839 earned the nickname "beer can" due to the Royal Hudson's cylindrical streamlined design. After being returned from the Southern, the engine was stored on the Blue Mountain and Reading Railroad (BM&R) before being stored near Allentown, Pennsylvania. The BM&R attempted to restore and run her on ...
ES 499.0001, actual running number 350 001-4, of the Slovakian Railways (ZSSK) in its factory paint scheme. Railway companies in Europe have also taken up this practice. CC 201 83 31 of the Kereta Api Indonesia (formerly CC 201 69), the first of the national railway's main line locomotive to use honorary paint scheme, sporting the railway's 1953-1991 paint scheme since 2021. [9]
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.