Hostling power at West Colton in 1987

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Jerry Krug	General	Wouldn't it be great to see something like this nowadays?	1/26/2007 1:03:50 PM

Tom Fassett	General	Now it's all that "yellow" stuff... ;- )	1/27/2007 1:50:46 AM

Greg Hurt	General	awesome photo!! nice mix of power.. its to bad those days are gone.	9/5/2007 10:29:02 PM

J. Williams	General	Nice, EMD's Yea buddy!	6/23/2008 4:39:50 PM

John Huey	General	No Place like Pepper Avenue, those were the days! Nice shot!	8/25/2008 2:14:58 AM

Tom Fassett	General	I just got a similar "current" shot over the weekend with ex SP SD40M-2s and UP SD40-2s.	9/18/2008 8:48:23 PM

Steve E	General	You can all mourn the loss of the SP, but I will not miss their greasy, grimy, unwashed, paint burned off the flanks power !	11/23/2008 6:41:38 PM

Southern Railroad	General	The Grease and Grime made the SP what it was... Nothing better than a very dirty SD45T-2 on the point in my mind...	12/23/2008 7:13:53 PM

Tom Fassett	General	Makes it a challenge to model the SP but I enjoy "griming" up my models... ;- )	1/2/2009 5:58:15 PM

steven langsford	General	Awsome photo!!! what does the E stand four in SD9E	1/28/2009 3:30:40 PM

Tom Fassett	General	The E designation was to denote that it was rebuilt.	1/29/2009 6:42:25 AM

Wyatt McCoy	General	Nice, too bad UP had to destroy them. Oh well nothing lasts forever.	2/14/2009 9:22:20 PM

David Nutter	General	Awesome shot!	2/23/2009 9:30:58 PM

Rodney J. Sorensen	General	Good action shot of the SP1 I miss them	3/25/2009 8:32:37 PM

Ted Marshall	General	Oh yeah, baby!!! Nice shot of some awesome engines.	6/4/2009 6:45:24 PM

Jim Gavin	General	Fantastic shot !!!	1/30/2010 11:44:25 AM

Joe Hill	General	I don't know what's better here. The pure SP paint, an all EMD consist, or the SD9 "Cadillac" leading the pack! Very nice!!!	11/3/2010 9:48:17 PM

Doug Wooten	General	Love the SP!!!!	7/16/2012 2:43:48 AM

Mike Maskel	General	NICE SHOT	7/8/2013 12:30:59 AM

Rich Varner	General	What a great old picture! Seen on homepage on 2-6-2015	2/6/2015 6:12:35 PM

Jacob Lyman	General	Hit the homepage again! Sadly the SP closed its doors when I was only two years old, but I still see her patch units showing up in UP consists from time to time.	11/29/2015 10:22:42 PM

Tom Beckett	General	What an ecelctic mix of EMD's. That was a set only SP could have cobbled together. Home page 01-07-2020	1/7/2020 2:54:36 AM

Scott Crotwell	General	Terrific shot!	2/19/2020 6:39:51 AM

Hostling power at West Colton in 1987
Date: 2/15/1987	Location: Colton, CA	Views: 5052	Collection Of: Tom Fassett
Locomotives: SP 4403(SD9E) SP 6309(GP35R) SP 8524(SD40T-2) SP 7323(SD40R) SSW 9377(SD45T-2)			Author: Tom Fassett

Picture Categories: Yard,Action		This picture is part of album: Railroad Yards of the Southwest

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