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Fallen Flags: Southern Pacific Remembered

Fallen Flags: Southern Pacific Remembered
Magazine

This 100-page tribute to one of the most iconic railroads in history features in-depth stories, captivating photography, and rare insights into the Southern Pacific system. In Southern Pacific Remembered, you'll learn more about Daylight passenger trains, the California Coast Line, Donner Pass, cab-forward steam locomotives, and much more.

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Live long, The Octopus

Fallen Flags: Southern Pacific Remembered

NOT ONLY A RAILROAD, BUT AN EMPIRE

Whatever happened to the SOUTHERN PACIFIC? • Tracing the tentacles of ‘the Octopus’ 43 years later

SP and PASSENGERS: The bittersweet love affair • “You can’t make people do what they don’t want to do” —Donald J. Russell

ALL THE WAY TO SAN JOSE

REMEMBERING THE Malleys • For a young fireman smitten with cab-forwards, SP’s Coast Division was the place to be in 1953

‘Love-hate relationship’ with cab-forwards • Triumphs and tribulations on a unique breed of locomotive

Queen of the DAYLIGHT • Southern Pacific’s most famous 4-8-4s had few peers

THE HILL

WHEN SNOW HITS THE SIERRA • How Southern Pacific battles winter on Donner Pass

THE BEAR VS. THE LAKE

BOOMER IN A BOOM TOWN • All of us: white, black, man, woman, old-head, new-hire, came to the Southern Pacific in Houston for the same thing: money. We left feeling like family.

AND THEN THE GOLDEN EMPIRE CAME CRASHING DOWN • How SP went from mighty octopus to tarnished suitor

LIONEL NO. 2257 Southern-Pacific Type Caboose • Model was a catalog staple from 1947 through 1969

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  • OverDrive Magazine

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Languages

  • English