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[Anonymous]

What modern diesel locomotives did SP use in road and local switcher service from 1960-1980?

[Anonymous]

They used A lot of gp-9's and SW-1500's for yard and local switching
And passenger sevice from the 1960' to the mid 80's
gp-40's were used a lot in road service before SD-50thru90's were built[:)]
but mainly yd and road switching were done with GP-9's

[Anonymous]

Thanks! Down here in South Louisiana, they also used RS-3's in local service. One derailed on my employer's spur in the late 1960's and we used a sideboom tractor (used in laying pipelines) to get it back on the track. My father has a couple old slides showing the lifting of the engine.

[joseph2]

They also had Alco RS11's.Back in 1979 an Indiana shortline had two of them still painted for the SP.The SP used to use Fairbank-Morse H24-66's for freight and commutor trains in California.

[Anonymous]

A lot of SD9's in Oregon: http://cbassweb.com/railroads/sp/index.htm

[SSW9389]

Cajunman I don't think that the COTTON BELT RS-3s ever left home rails. Or if they did it was not often. What you probably saw were Southern Pacific RSD-5s. The COTTON BELT RS-3s were the only ones on the Espee system.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Cajunman

Thanks! Down here in South Louisiana, they also used RS-3's in local service. One derailed on my employer's spur in the late 1960's and we used a sideboom tractor (used in laying pipelines) to get it back on the track. My father has a couple old slides showing the lifting of the engine.

[SSW9389]

Cajunman I recommend you take a look at Richard Percy's website My Espee Modeler's Home Page. See espee.railfan.net/espee.html Richard has put a lot of effort into that page on the Espee locomotive fleet.

[espeefoamer]

Until the mid 70s SP had ALCo,Baldwin,and FM switchers.They also had FM Trainmasters,GP9s, and SDP 45s in commute service in San Francisco.
They had most 2nd generation diesels,plus a few unique units.They had two versions of Krauss Maffei road diesels,plus 3U50s and 3 DD35Bs.They,and the D&RGW,ran the only tunnel motors built.They also had a very large fleet of SD45s.

[SSW9389]

I'd like to add that 94 of the tunnel motors had COTTON BELT lettering on their sides.