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