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By:Mark Morgan
Dates:1/15/1970 - 7/15/1993
Album Info:Having lived in Tucson for two years during the early 1970s, followed by eight years in Southern California during the 1980s, I really got tired of SP gray and crimson. Nowadays, I see a UP unit still in SP colors, the chase is on...
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SP GP9 3656
Title:  SP GP9 3656
Description:  On the road with three Geeps and 10 cars.
Photo Date:  6/6/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2009 10:51:42 PM
Location:  Los Molinos, CA
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 3656(GP9)
Views:  653   Comments: 0
SP RS32 4002
Title:  SP RS32 4002
Description:  Lord love an Alco...
Photo Date:  12/29/1976  Upload Date: 8/2/2009 1:48:45 PM
Location:  Ogden, UT
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 4002(RS32)
Views:  2736   Comments: 0
SP S6 1273
Title:  SP S6 1273
Description:  A pair of rather tired S6s at the Fresno servicing facility: 1273 and 1224.
Photo Date:  7/11/1981  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 9:26:29 AM
Location:  Fresno, CA
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 1273(S6) SP 1224(S6)
Views:  2047   Comments: 0
SP S6 1273
Title:  SP S6 1273
Description:  SP S6 1273 sits quietly at the Fresno loco servicing facility.
Photo Date:  7/11/1981  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 9:27:27 AM
Location:  Fresno, CA
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 1273(S6)
Views:  521   Comments: 0
SP SD9E 4389
Title:  SP SD9E 4389
Description:  Rather worse for wear, SD9E 4389 toils on at the end of SP's Corvallis to Toledo, OR branch
Photo Date:  6/6/1986  Upload Date: 8/13/2009 10:57:34 PM
Location:  Toledo, OR
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 4389(SD9E)
Views:  1103   Comments: 0
SP S3-2B Slug 1606
Title:  SP S3-2B Slug 1606
Description:  Converted from SP U25B 6712, this slug later became UP 933
Photo Date:  11/12/1986  Upload Date: 10/2/2009 10:17:01 PM
Location:  Deming, NM
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 1606(TEBU)
Views:  1048   Comments: 1
SP GP9E 3826
Title:  SP GP9E 3826
Description:  Ironically, two months after I took this photo of the Geep working local industry, I moved to nearby Canyon Country and started the classic SoCal long-distance commute into greater LA. ACK!
Photo Date:  11/17/1986  Upload Date: 8/2/2009 1:19:41 PM
Location:  Newhall, CA
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 3826(GP9R)
Views:  897   Comments: 2
SSW GP40-2 7270
Title:  SSW GP40-2 7270
Description:  Clear winter's day in north Texas.
Photo Date:  12/19/1986  Upload Date: 6/17/2011 10:28:40 PM
Location:  Denison, TX
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives: 
Views:  637   Comments: 0
SP B23-7 5106
Title:  SP B23-7 5106
Description:  Booming through Dalhart on the way to California, paused long enough for a shot of B23-7 in the Southern Pacific facility, along with C-40-5-class bay window caboose 1654.
Photo Date:  1/5/1987  Upload Date: 8/2/2009 1:15:27 PM
Location:  Dalhart, TX
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 5106(B23-7)
Views:  1234   Comments: 0
SP GP38-2 4842
Title:  SP GP38-2 4842
Description:  Heading west from St Louis to SoCal, where it's probably a lot warmer.
Photo Date:  1/5/1987  Upload Date: 6/17/2011 10:24:55 PM
Location:  Dalhart, TX
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 4842(GP38-2)
Views:  1741   Comments: 0
SP GP9E 3396
Title:  SP GP9E 3396
Description:  "Celebrating" the New Year: dusk in Liberal's engine fac.
Photo Date:  1/5/1987  Upload Date: 6/29/2009 9:52:57 PM
Location:  Liberal, KS
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 3396(GP9R)
Views:  810   Comments: 0
SSW GP40-2 7269
Title:  SSW GP40-2 7269
Description:  Cold but sunny day in the crossroads of the universe, Dalhart and we're doing a little switching.
Photo Date:  1/5/1987  Upload Date: 2/26/2011 9:29:56 AM
Location:  Dalhart, TX
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SSW 7269(GP40-2)
Views:  793   Comments: 0
SP GP38-2 4822
Title:  SP GP38-2 4822
Description:  It's the New Year and not much is happening in Denison, as GP38-2 sits with similar 38-2 4829.
Photo Date:  1/23/1987  Upload Date: 8/2/2009 1:21:52 PM
Location:  Denison, TX
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 4822(GP38-2)
Views:  1945   Comments: 0
SP GP9E 4315
Title:  SP GP9E 4315
Description:  Up on the Northwestern Pacific, three SD9Es: 4315, 4305 and 4351.
Photo Date:  1/23/1987  Upload Date: 8/2/2009 1:21:03 PM
Location:  Willits, CA
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 4315(SD9E) SP 4305(SD9E)
Views:  1869   Comments: 0
SP SW1500 2617
Title:  SP SW1500 2617
Description:  Back in my old stomping grounds of Ventura County, two SW1500s with cab 4757 in the middle.
Photo Date:  4/26/1987  Upload Date: 6/17/2011 10:30:50 PM
Location:  Oxnard, CA
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 2617(SW1500) SP 2459(SW1500)
Views:  1497   Comments: 0
SP SD45 7500
Title:  SP SD45 7500
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/1987  Upload Date: 8/2/2009 7:56:00 PM
Location:  Mojave, CA
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 7500(SD45R)
Views:  960   Comments: 1
SP GP40-2 7949
Title:  SP GP40-2 7949
Description:  Moved to Tucson in 1970, didn't think twice of the series of surviving coaling towers on the SP main. Some 23 years later, I started correcting the oversight.
Photo Date:  12/29/1993  Upload Date: 8/2/2009 1:23:10 PM
Location:  Lordsburg, NM
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 7949(GP40-2)
Views:  975   Comments: 0
SP GP60 9601
Title:  SP GP60 9601
Description:  Its just not the same these days driving between Mescal and Lordsburg and not seeing the coal towers...
Photo Date:  12/29/1993  Upload Date: 3/26/2011 8:23:46 AM
Location:  Mescal, AZ
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 9601(GP60)
Views:  627   Comments: 0
SSW B40-8 8084
Title:  SSW B40-8 8084
Description:  One of those shots I'd waited years for: westbound over Interstate 10, with ex-SAL GP40M-2 7289 in trail.
Photo Date:  12/29/1993  Upload Date: 2/26/2011 9:27:55 AM
Location:  Pantano, AZ
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SSW 8084(B40-8) SSW 7289(GP40M-2)
Views:  596   Comments: 0
SP C44-9W 8194
Title:  SP C44-9W 8194
Description:  Twas the day after Christmas, and while making a high-speed run from KCMO to Tucson I regularly stumbled on scenes such as this one.
Photo Date:  12/26/1994  Upload Date: 3/26/2011 8:19:48 AM
Location:  Haviland, KS
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 8194(C44-9W)
Views:  428   Comments: 0
SP southbound
Title:  SP southbound
Description:  SP/CORP semaphores in Grants Pass, on the famed (and periodically troublesome) Siskiyou Line.
Photo Date:  10/25/1998  Upload Date: 1/26/2011 8:01:52 PM
Location:  Grants Pass, OR
Author:  Mark Morgan
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Views:  298   Comments: 0


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