THE MIGHTY SOUTHERN PACIFIC

Published 2024-07-30
"DIESEL POWER ON THE SP" www.cspmovies.com
Glistening vintage color film of Southern Pacific's world famous Coast Line Route. See Santa Barbara in the early forties with daylights and troop trains all pulled by steam. Huge cab forwards are also shown with long blocks of reefers. View the men and women of the SP over sixty years ago, all pitching in for the war effort. Southern Pacific's transition from steam to diesel is well covered with plenty of F-units in both bloody nose and black widow liveries. Visit Old Taylor Yard with lots of GP-9's and SD-7's and witness some of SP's rare DD-35B's and the giant U-50's in West Colton transfer service. Also included is classic Tehachapi, Beaumont Hill and Old Cajon Pass with U-33C's and older SD-39's and GP-35's as helper and mainline power. Climb aboard passenger excursions on the freight only Santa Paula and Burbank Branches powered by sets of F-Units. A step back through the last fifty years on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Some Locations: Oakland and San Jose San Joaquin Line Cajon Pass 1967 Tehachapi 1955-1971 Los Angeles area Taylor Yard 1965 Colton Crossing Kaiser ore at Ferrum Santa Paula Branch Burbank Branch Cascade and Shasta And much more

All Comments (16)
  • I love your SP videos. My father worked for SP and they had a huge presence in the small Oregon coastal town I grew up in .my father never mentioned any of the struggles SP went through in the 80" s he was a good man.
  • @toolsteel8482
    All those boxcars & not a lick of graffiti. I enjoy these vintage railroad videos, thanks for sharing.
  • @J3scribe
    I have this DVD. I never get tired of seeing its content.
  • @mec253
    Wicked nice !! Thank you. I spied an old Maine Central car on one of those trains.
  • @sirblack1619
    I really miss seeing SP and Rio Grande when they were separate railroads. They both has a certain character about them.
  • Charles Smiley Videos are always the Best! Educational and understandable and high on the "WOW" factor rating! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘
  • I seriously love all these SP videos. Such a unique RR and they just seem to have a style all their own. I could watch this type of railroading for hours. The railroads that I loved from my youth were obviously the SP, KCS, ICG and MoPac. Those were my lines.
  • @1978garfield
    Amazing footage. That was proper railroading back then.
  • @toolsteel8482
    Ferrum , Latin for iron. I did not know Kaiser steel had road units.
  • I sure do miss the scarlet and gray, Wish the people at SP could've been better at keeping it alive. What a shame
  • @johncamp2567
    Very interesting early film of the Palmdale Cut-off construction! πŸ›€οΈ