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SP Articulated Coach 2443
Title:  SP Articulated Coach 2443
Description:  Taken during 1952 by an unknown photographer.
Photo Date:  1/1/1952  Upload Date: 6/14/2023 11:15:36 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Unknown
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Views:  206   Comments: 0
Southern Pacific Parlor-Lounge-Obs. 295x
Title:  Southern Pacific Parlor-Lounge-Obs. 295x
Description:  Taken by an unknown photographer.
Photo Date:  1/1/1952  Upload Date: 5/6/2025 10:08:47 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Unknown
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Views:  100   Comments: 0
SP Articulated Table Car 10256
Title:  SP Articulated Table Car 10256
Description:  Taken during 1952 by an unknown photographer.
Photo Date:  1/1/1952  Upload Date: 5/6/2025 10:19:36 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Unknown
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Views:  119   Comments: 0
SP Covered Wagon working
Title:  SP Covered Wagon working
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/5/1961  Upload Date: 2/4/2012 10:00:11 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  George Kantola
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SP 6048(E9A)
Views:  1406   Comments: 2
SP 6461
Title:  SP 6461
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/22/1966  Upload Date: 1/10/2014 11:11:19 AM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Jack Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 6461(FP7A)
Views:  613   Comments: 1
San Luis Obispo roundhouse...
Title:  San Luis Obispo roundhouse...
Description:  Well, not really a roundhouse anymore, but a heck of a lot of service tracks, and lots of Coast line power scattered about. There was a 5 or 6 unit string of F's, several GP35's, GP9's, and a couple of GE U25B's. In the Bay Area, GP35's and U boats weren't usually seen much, at least north and east of San Jose.
Photo Date:  4/8/1968  Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:06:08 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Pat Flynn
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Views:  971   Comments: 0
Yikes, yet another SP E unit !!!
Title:  Yikes, yet another SP E unit !!!
Description:  I am surprised I even got this shot, considering we were riding in the coach, and really had no warning of Train 98's approach. Of course, this was the usual meeting point (or south of here) for 98 and 99 at this period of time, since you could ride 98 down from the Bay Area to SLO and then catch 99 right back. I think it was jus a 20 to 25 minute scheduled lay-over between trains, and the surly SP ticket agents would always get nervous about us buying tickets for such a roundtrip, admonishing us that SP would not be responsible for us missing the connection between 98 and 99! Duh. I think we did that trip twice, one time with Parlor Car seats in the boat tail. Yeah, the Coast train still had the real Parlor car on the rear most days, with extra fare for the ride. Oh, and there's a Coast line Geep, under the sanding rig.
Photo Date:  4/8/1968  Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:06:20 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Pat Flynn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 6051(E9A)
Views:  1893   Comments: 1
Nice crew office for SP at SLO...
Title:  Nice crew office for SP at SLO...
Description:  Yeah, that's the "yard office" at SLO, pretty nice compared to prefab jobs elsewhere, huh? You can see lots of passenger train crew members lurking about the doorway. One guy looks like a special agent or a trainmaster, wearing that hat and tie, eh? The fellow walking south in the foul of main track 2 is no doubt the "flagman" for our train 99.
Photo Date:  4/8/1968  Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:06:30 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Pat Flynn
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Views:  1606   Comments: 1
Classic San Luis Obispo Shot.
Title:  Classic San Luis Obispo Shot.
Description:  Or at least as close as I could get it. You can see that behind the Automatic Buffet Car, there's FOUR more Shasta coaches, and then the parlor-observation. Palm trees, and a mission-design station. Yeah, this is California.
Photo Date:  4/8/1968  Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:06:40 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Pat Flynn
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Views:  524   Comments: 0
Head end shot of train 99.
Title:  Head end shot of train 99.
Description:  We got brave (you notice we hadn't been riding the vestibules so far- that's why the pictures are thru the windows!) and strolled up to the head end as 99 stopped at SLO for crew change and servicing. Gee, one of the yardmen is standing at the water hose cart, ready to add water to the units, I guess, if needed. Of the 2 or 3 folks standing and chatting, the late Gerry Salsig is the one facing towards the eng, right hand on hip, and left hand holding his camera bag and whatever. So, I guess that's my "Kodak" camera bag and notepad on the ground between me and them.
Photo Date:  4/8/1968  Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:06:51 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Pat Flynn
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  SP 6050(E9A)
Views:  1747   Comments: 1
SP 7028
Title:  SP 7028
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/25/1972  Upload Date: 5/7/2018 5:29:17 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Peter Arnold
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7028(U28B)
Views:  505   Comments: 0
AT&SF #2835
Title:  AT&SF #2835
Description:  Built in 1953 by Budd in Lot #9613-135 as AT&SF 48 seat leg rest chair #2835, 1 of 45 such cars (#2816-#2860) built in that Lot, which was ordered in September 1952; cars were delivered between September and December 1953. In 1971, Amtrak acquired 42 of these chairs as #4810-#4828 and #4850-#4872, the #2835 as #4827. In 1980, Amtrak converted 40 of these chairs to HEP as #4700-#4739, the #4827 was converted to #4714 in March of that year. In 1982-1983, Amtrak reconfigured 10 of these chairs to 88 seat coaches for the CLOCKER service, the #4714 was reconfigured to #7627 in March 1983. 3 of these reconfigured cars, including the #7627, were sold in 1997 to the Providence & Worcester. 2 of these 3 cars received names, the #7627 was named RHODE ISLAND. Scanned with an Epson V550 from a Kodachrome original 35mm slide.
Photo Date:  1/20/1973  Upload Date: 12/15/2014 2:45:57 AM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Bruce Boles/Dariusz Lachowicz Collection
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  1481   Comments: 0
SP 8714
Title:  SP 8714
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1973  Upload Date: 5/7/2018 5:29:33 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Peter Arnold
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8714(U33C)
Views:  312   Comments: 0
AMTK 418
Title:  AMTK 418
Description:  Peter Arnold photo
Photo Date:  10/4/1973  Upload Date: 2/13/2025 3:49:58 AM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Peter Arnold
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 418(E9A) SP 3204(SDP45)
Views:  442   Comments: 0
SP 6704
Title:  SP 6704
Description:  SP U25B 6704 (ex-7504) and SD45 8826 bring an eastbound train into San Luis Obispo, CA on July 1, 1974.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 1/10/2012 2:08:07 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SP 6704(U25B) SP 8826(SD45)
Views:  1672   Comments: 3
AMTK 583 - San Luis Obispo, CA - 7/2/74
Title:  AMTK 583 - San Luis Obispo, CA - 7/2/74
Description:  Amtrak train #11, the "Coast Starlight," passes through the pastures of Cal Poly University (which has an extensive agricultural program) in San Luis Obispo, California, on July 2, 1974. SDP40Fs 583 and 587 are in charge of this train as it heads from Seattle to Los Angeles.
Photo Date:  7/2/1974  Upload Date: 1/27/2011 12:33:39 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 583(SDP40F) AMTK 587(SDP40F)
Views:  1120   Comments: 3
SP 9951
Title:  SP 9951
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/4/1974  Upload Date: 5/6/2018 11:19:09 AM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Peter Arnold
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 9951(U50)
Views:  933   Comments: 1
Coast Starlight at San Luis Obisbo
Title:  Coast Starlight at San Luis Obisbo
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/22/1974  Upload Date: 8/6/2011 6:36:16 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Dick Leonhardt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 569(SDP40F)
Views:  778   Comments: 0
Coast Starlighs
Title:  Coast Starlighs
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/22/1974  Upload Date: 8/6/2011 6:38:28 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Dick Leonhardt
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  318   Comments: 0
AMTK 554
Title:  AMTK 554
Description:  Southbound Coast Starlight meet northbound in San Luis Obisbo
Photo Date:  12/22/1974  Upload Date: 8/6/2011 3:22:09 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Dick Leonhardt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 554(SDP40F)
Views:  752   Comments: 2
Amtrak "Pacific Northwest" AMTK 2621
Title:  Amtrak "Pacific Northwest" AMTK 2621
Description:  AMTK 2621. Ex UP 1428
Photo Date:  9/13/1975  Upload Date: 4/24/2022 12:50:22 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Steven Vincent
Categories: 
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Views:  534   Comments: 1
Amtrak sightseer lounge #33014
Title:  Amtrak sightseer lounge #33014
Description:  AMTK 33014
Photo Date:  2/16/1981  Upload Date: 8/17/2024 9:42:47 AM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Steven Vincent
Categories: 
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Views:  284   Comments: 0
San Luis Obispo, California June 1981
Title:  San Luis Obispo, California June 1981
Description:  Number Fourteen (Amtrak "Coast Starlight") southbound meets SP northbound at "SLO" in this horribly overexposed scene, June 1981
Photo Date:  6/1/1981  Upload Date: 8/11/2011 9:49:17 AM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 232(F40PHR) SP 8900(SD45) SP 7627(GP40-2)
Views:  1427   Comments: 4
Have a Caddy...
Title:  Have a Caddy...
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/21/1981  Upload Date: 5/7/2008 6:03:10 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  John Huey
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4434(SD9E) SP 4418(SD9E)
Views:  1149   Comments: 0
SP 140
Title:  SP 140
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/21/1981  Upload Date: 5/8/2008 8:02:54 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  John Huey
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  1052   Comments: 0
SP 140  Stanford
Title:  SP 140 Stanford
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/21/1981  Upload Date: 5/8/2008 8:03:18 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  John Huey
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  919   Comments: 0
SP 140
Title:  SP 140
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/21/1981  Upload Date: 5/8/2008 8:03:36 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  John Huey
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  863   Comments: 0
SP Business Train Cars
Title:  SP Business Train Cars
Description:  Circa 1980
Photo Date:  8/21/1981  Upload Date: 5/8/2008 8:04:27 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  John Huey
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  2046   Comments: 1
SP Business Train Cars
Title:  SP Business Train Cars
Description:  It was a warm one, let me tell ya...
Photo Date:  8/21/1981  Upload Date: 5/8/2008 8:04:52 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  John Huey
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  2734   Comments: 0
Is it THE Man?
Title:  Is it THE Man?
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/29/1981  Upload Date: 5/8/2008 8:08:28 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  John Huey
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  933   Comments: 0
SP 5302 at SLO
Title:  SP 5302 at SLO
Description:  Peter Arnold photo
Photo Date:  4/28/1982  Upload Date: 7/23/2025 3:38:01 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Peter Arnold
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 5302(SD39)
Views:  38   Comments: 0
SP 5314
Title:  SP 5314
Description:  SP 5314 was delivered in October 1968.
Photo Date:  9/6/1982  Upload Date: 9/5/2023 2:47:05 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 5314(SD39)
Views:  405   Comments: 0
SP 3353 - San Luis Obispo, CA - 4/3/83
Title:  SP 3353 - San Luis Obispo, CA - 4/3/83
Description:  Southern Pacific GP9 3353, seen in San Luis Obispo, California, on April 3, 1983, was built in May 1956 as SP subsidiary-Texas & New Orleans 430. When renumbered into the SP system in 1965, it was numbered SP 3552 until rebuilt in May 1972 in Sacramento, at which point the number 3353 was applied.
Photo Date:  4/3/1983  Upload Date: 2/25/2011 4:16:27 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 3353(GP9R)
Views:  828   Comments: 0
SSW Wide Vision
Title:  SSW Wide Vision
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/15/1983  Upload Date: 2/21/2012 1:14:00 AM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  George Kantola
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  729   Comments: 0
SP 7375 OAWCY pumping up the air
Title:  SP 7375 OAWCY pumping up the air
Description:  David Rector photo
Photo Date:  11/13/1983  Upload Date: 6/27/2023 12:59:41 AM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  David Rector
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SP 7375(SD40R) SP 8369(SD40T-2)
Views:  461   Comments: 1
SP Mid-Train Helpers
Title:  SP Mid-Train Helpers
Description:  SP 4378
Photo Date:  2/27/1984  Upload Date: 5/1/2009 6:20:11 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Tom Golden
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4378(SD9E)
Views:  653   Comments: 0
SP 4392
Title:  SP 4392
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/27/1984  Upload Date: 5/1/2009 6:27:39 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Tom Golden
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4392(SD9E)
Views:  569   Comments: 0
SP 4434
Title:  SP 4434
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/27/1984  Upload Date: 5/3/2009 8:13:38 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Tom Golden
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4434(SD9E)
Views:  935   Comments: 0
SP 9171
Title:  SP 9171
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/27/1984  Upload Date: 5/1/2009 6:23:06 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Tom Golden
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 9171(SD45T-2)
Views:  959   Comments: 0
SP 7556
Title:  SP 7556
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/23/1985  Upload Date: 3/28/2009 10:32:34 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Eric Larson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7556(SD45R)
Views:  1040   Comments: 1
SP 140
Title:  SP 140
Description:  SP 140 (Stanford) on the back of the Coast Starlight heading toward Oakland,Ca
Photo Date:  7/28/1986  Upload Date: 3/26/2008 7:25:20 AM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Douglas Lister
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  628   Comments: 0
AMTK 241, Tr. 14 Coast Starlight
Title:  AMTK 241, Tr. 14 Coast Starlight
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/14/1991  Upload Date: 2/20/2010 8:57:11 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 241(F40PHR)
Views:  857   Comments: 0
AMTK 241, Tr. 14 Coast Starlight Begins to Overtake a Beet Train.
Title:  AMTK 241, Tr. 14 Coast Starlight Begins to Overtake a Beet Train.
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/14/1991  Upload Date: 2/20/2010 8:57:12 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 241(F40PHR)
Views:  954   Comments: 0
AMTK 241 and 230, Tr. 14 Coast Starlight
Title:  AMTK 241 and 230, Tr. 14 Coast Starlight
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/14/1991  Upload Date: 2/20/2010 8:57:13 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 241(F40PHR) AMTK 230(F40PHR)
Views:  1053   Comments: 0
AMTK 241 and 230, Tr. 14 Coast Starlight
Title:  AMTK 241 and 230, Tr. 14 Coast Starlight
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/14/1991  Upload Date: 2/20/2010 8:57:14 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 241(F40PHR) AMTK 230(F40PHR)
Views:  1147   Comments: 1
AMTK 247, Tr. 11 in Hills North of Town
Title:  AMTK 247, Tr. 11 in Hills North of Town
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/14/1991  Upload Date: 2/24/2010 9:01:56 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 247(F40PHR)
Views:  604   Comments: 0
AMTK 247, Tr. 11 in Hills North of Town
Title:  AMTK 247, Tr. 11 in Hills North of Town
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/14/1991  Upload Date: 2/24/2010 9:01:57 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 247(F40PHR)
Views:  545   Comments: 0
AMTK 247, Tr. 11 in Hills North of Town
Title:  AMTK 247, Tr. 11 in Hills North of Town
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/14/1991  Upload Date: 2/24/2010 9:01:58 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 247(F40PHR)
Views:  625   Comments: 0
AMTK 247, Tr. 11 in Hills North of Town
Title:  AMTK 247, Tr. 11 in Hills North of Town
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/14/1991  Upload Date: 2/24/2010 9:01:59 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 247(F40PHR)
Views:  600   Comments: 2
AMTK 247, Tr. 11 The Coast Starlight
Title:  AMTK 247, Tr. 11 The Coast Starlight
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/14/1991  Upload Date: 2/24/2010 9:02:02 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 247(F40PHR)
Views:  682   Comments: 2


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