Showing posts with label SN. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 1, 2025

SN F-units at Niles

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Set of Athearn Genesis HO Sacramento Northern (SN) F-units at the Tri-City Society of Model Engineers model railroad in the historic Niles depot in Fremont, CA on Friday night, February 28, 2025.
The real SN 301-A was an EMD F3A. Reportedly, it was built in 1948 as NYO&W 501, builders number 3146. Purchased in 1957 it became SN 301-A. It was retired circa 1970, traded to EMD.
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Apple iPhone 13 Max, image 2025.3.1.9.22-ph


Tuesday, September 10, 2024

SN 402 getting tested



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Sacramento Northern (SN) 402 getting tested outside the WP roundhouse in Stockton, CA, circa 1973.
SN402 is an EMC SW1. It was built in 1939 for the Western Pacific Railroad, as WP 502, builder's number 988. It was the second of three WP SW1s, the first diesel-electric locomotives purchased by the railroad. It was sold to WP subsidiary Sacramento Northern Railway in the 1960s, it went to the California State Railroad Museum after the Union Pacific merger in 1982.
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Hand scans: 2009.11.22.1.4, 5-ph

SP ALCo S-2 1780

Click Photo To Enlarge Southern Pacific (SP) 1780 was the last SP ALCo S-2 to work in Oakland, CA. SP 1780 was in Homestead Yard, West Oakla...