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SP SD40T-2 8303
Title:  SP SD40T-2 8303
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1975  Upload Date: 11/13/2018 12:31:19 PM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  R. H. Lehmuth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8303(SD40T-2)
Views:  333   Comments: 1
SP 8303 East
Title:  SP 8303 East
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/16/1977  Upload Date: 5/30/2006 11:09:55 PM
Location:  Redlands, CA
Author:  Steve Schmollinger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8303(SD40T-2)
Views:  769   Comments: 1
SP 8303
Title:  SP 8303
Description:  SP 8303 East begins its trip up the mountain as it starts to round the horseshoe curve at Caliente.
Photo Date:  4/13/1980  Upload Date: 10/21/2023 10:11:46 AM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8303(SD40T-2)
Views:  148   Comments: 0
SP 8303
Title:  SP 8303
Description:  SP 8303 starts up the grade with a train of mostly lumber in tow.
Photo Date:  4/13/1980  Upload Date: 10/21/2023 10:12:14 AM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8303(SD40T-2)
Views:  166   Comments: 0
SP 8303 and SP 8517
Title:  SP 8303 and SP 8517
Description:  Assisting SP 8303 is a mid-train helper set including SP 8517.
Photo Date:  4/13/1980  Upload Date: 10/21/2023 10:12:33 AM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8517(SD40T-2) SP 8303(SD40T-2)
Views:  181   Comments: 0
SP 8303 and SP 8517
Title:  SP 8303 and SP 8517
Description:  SP 8303 gets some help from a two unit helper set led by SP 8517.
Photo Date:  4/13/1980  Upload Date: 10/21/2023 10:12:54 AM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8303(SD40T-2) SP 8517(SD40T-2)
Views:  182   Comments: 0
SP 8303
Title:  SP 8303
Description:  An EUOGY train eastbound on the Modoc line at MP 495, about halfway between Perez and Ambrose near Hackamore. SP 8303 is an RCE master, controlling three remote helpers back in the train. She was later UP 4560, UP 2887. The mountains barely visible in the background at left are the Medicine Lake Highlands, a collapsed volcanic caldera. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/16/2010 11:05:54 AM
Location:  Hackamore, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8303(SD40T-2)
Views:  762   Comments: 2
SP 8303
Title:  SP 8303
Description:  The remote helpers are now back on the head end as this EUOGY prepares to descend the 2% grade to Canby. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/16/2010 11:56:55 AM
Location:  Ambrose, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8303(SD40T-2)
Views:  745   Comments: 2
SP 8303
Title:  SP 8303
Description:  An EUOGY on the Modoc line passes the open train order office at Alturas, CA. The Rio Grande GP40s and SP GP40X were not often seen; the GP40X was in the consist for its ability to act as a remote slave receiver. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1983  Upload Date: 10/14/2006 5:25:42 AM
Location:  Alturas, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8303(SD40T-2)
Views:  1253   Comments: 1
SP 8304 and 13 Other Units with 140 Cars at Waylong Loop
Title:  SP 8304 and 13 Other Units with 140 Cars at Waylong Loop
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/17/1975  Upload Date: 5/12/2010 12:08:36 PM
Location:  Tehachapi, CA
Author:  Unknown
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8304(SD40T-2)
Views:  815   Comments: 1
SP 8304
Title:  SP 8304
Description:  SP 8304 heads out of West Colton yard on the point of an eastbound freight.
Photo Date:  7/23/1977  Upload Date: 10/22/2023 11:08:53 AM
Location:  West Colton, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8304(SD40T-2)
Views:  167   Comments: 0
SP 8304
Title:  SP 8304
Description:  This top view of SP 8304 shows the extra hardware on the top of this "master" radio control unit.
Photo Date:  7/23/1977  Upload Date: 10/22/2023 11:09:15 AM
Location:  West Colton, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 8304(SD40T-2)
Views:  176   Comments: 0
Five Diesel SLSW-SP-UP Consist Pulling Into Colton From Cajon Pass
Title:  Five Diesel SLSW-SP-UP Consist Pulling Into Colton From Cajon Pass
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Entering Colton Yard on line from Cajon Pass. Roundabout track to the left (northeast). Slover Mountain in the immediate background.
Photo Date:  3/17/1979  Upload Date: 10/2/2006 9:49:53 PM
Location:  West Colton, CA
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SSW 9376(SD45T-2) SP 8304(SD40T-2) UP 3238(SD40-2)
Views:  1032   Comments: 0
Coming In From Cajon Pass
Title:  Coming In From Cajon Pass
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Coming in from Cajon.
Photo Date:  3/17/1979  Upload Date: 3/4/2007 2:57:26 PM
Location:  West Colton, CA
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SSW 9376(SD45T-2) SP 8304(SD40T-2) SSW 8376(SD40T-2) UP 3238(SD40-2)
Views:  1589   Comments: 1
SP 8304 - Cottage Grove, OR - 9/15/79
Title:  SP 8304 - Cottage Grove, OR - 9/15/79
Description:  A Southern Pacific eastbound freight, led by SD40T-2 8304, passes through a through-truss bridge in Cottage Grove, Oregon, on September 15, 1979.
Photo Date:  9/15/1979  Upload Date: 6/16/2010 10:46:37 PM
Location:  Cottage Grove, OR
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge
Locomotives:  SP 8304(SD40T-2)
Views:  492   Comments: 3
SP 8304
Title:  SP 8304
Description:  An EUOGY on the Modoc Line. Tonnage is light enough today that the road power and helpers are all on the head end, with a GP9 splicing them (it will be set out in Alturas for the Lakeview job). Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  12/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/17/2010 1:12:00 PM
Location:  Hackamore, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8304(SD40T-2)
Views:  549   Comments: 1
SP 8304
Title:  SP 8304
Description:  SP 8304 leads a southbound run through past King St. Station around lunchtime.
Photo Date:  5/31/1987  Upload Date: 7/21/2015 11:01:08 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8304(SD40T-2)
Views:  533   Comments: 0
SP 8304
Title:  SP 8304
Description:  An SD40T-2 idling in Miller Yard waits to be assigned a train after being service at the fueling tracks. This diesel would later be painted in full UP paint and renumbered 4370.
Photo Date:  4/1/1994  Upload Date: 5/24/2014 1:48:15 AM
Location:  Dallas, TX
Author:  Roberto Alaniz
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SP 8304(SD40T-2)
Views:  535   Comments: 0
SP 8304 Provo,Utah April 9,1996
Title:  SP 8304 Provo,Utah April 9,1996
Description:  Southern Pacific Lines Train OANSF passes milepost 701.3 at Provo. This train will soon traverse Soldier Summit and Tennessee Pass.
Photo Date:  4/9/1996  Upload Date: 3/14/2009 2:19:49 AM
Location:  Provo, UT
Author:  Quinn Clegg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8304(SD40T-2)
Views:  606   Comments: 1
SP 8304
Title:  SP 8304
Description:  A lobotomized SP tunnel motor leads CSX train Q602 southbound at Gould Road near Owensboro.
Photo Date:  8/17/1996  Upload Date: 4/16/2009 4:21:20 PM
Location:  Owensboro, FL
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8304(SD40T-2)
Views:  597   Comments: 5
SP 8305 West at tunnel 2
Title:  SP 8305 West at tunnel 2
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/7/1975  Upload Date: 6/16/2006 3:42:55 PM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  Steve Schmollinger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2) SP 8655(U33C)
Views:  915   Comments: 0
SP 8305 West at tunnel 2
Title:  SP 8305 West at tunnel 2
Description:  SP 8305 West runs around SP 8356 West at the west end of Bealville siding.
Photo Date:  3/7/1975  Upload Date: 5/26/2006 9:07:34 PM
Location:  Tehachapi Pass, CA
Author:  Steve Schmollinger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2)
Views:  773   Comments: 1
Southern Pacific SD40T-2 #8305
Title:  Southern Pacific SD40T-2 #8305
Description:  SP 8305. Locotrol master.
Photo Date:  3/3/1976  Upload Date: 1/4/2024 7:17:58 AM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Steven Vincent
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2)
Views:  142   Comments: 0
SP 8305 (SD40T-2) with yours truly hanging from the cab at the ripe old age of "21" I had just turned 21 four days earlier and I wish my hair still grew like that...Photo was taken by my friend Ed Smith who has sinced passed away. 5/27/1979 at Devore CA.
Title:  SP 8305 (SD40T-2) with yours truly hanging from the cab at the ripe old age of "21" I had just turned 21 four days earlier and I wish my hair still grew like that...Photo was taken by my friend Ed Smith who has sinced passed away. 5/27/1979 at Devore CA.
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/27/1979  Upload Date: 9/30/2022 8:01:13 PM
Location:  Devore, CA
Author:  John R. Schmeling
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2)
Views:  505   Comments: 2
Old and newer pose at the West Colton engine tracks
Title:  Old and newer pose at the West Colton engine tracks
Description:  Classic SP lineup back in the day. they were ahead of their time with all the extra lights front and rear.
Photo Date:  7/5/1980  Upload Date: 9/12/2018 10:25:28 AM
Location:  West Colton, CA
Author:  Clark Gillis
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2) SP 4389(SD9E) SP 9169(SD45T-2)
Views:  697   Comments: 1
SP 8305
Title:  SP 8305
Description:  SP 8305 was delivered in June 1974.
Photo Date:  11/15/1980  Upload Date: 10/22/2023 11:09:51 AM
Location:  Hiland, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2)
Views:  161   Comments: 0
SP 8305 East meets westbound
Title:  SP 8305 East meets westbound
Description:  The cars in the distance are coming off the Mokelumne River Bridge.
Photo Date:  4/13/1983  Upload Date: 6/6/2006 9:25:04 AM
Location:  Acampo, CA
Author:  Steve Schmollinger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2)
Views:  647   Comments: 0
SP 8305 making a set out in Truckee
Title:  SP 8305 making a set out in Truckee
Description:  Jerry Curlin photo
Photo Date:  7/28/1983  Upload Date: 7/13/2020 3:21:54 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Jerry Curlin
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2) SP 4305(SD9E)
Views:  352   Comments: 1
SP 8305 making a set out in Truckee
Title:  SP 8305 making a set out in Truckee
Description:  Jerry Curlin photo
Photo Date:  7/28/1983  Upload Date: 7/13/2020 3:22:05 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Jerry Curlin
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2)
Views:  249   Comments: 1
SP 8305 West at Tunnel #41
Title:  SP 8305 West at Tunnel #41
Description:  Jerry Curlin photo
Photo Date:  7/28/1983  Upload Date: 7/13/2020 3:22:22 PM
Location:  Norden, CA
Author:  Jerry Curlin
Categories:  Tunnel,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2)
Views:  254   Comments: 1
SP 8305 West at Tunnel #41
Title:  SP 8305 West at Tunnel #41
Description:  A crew member is walking back to check on a unit or two; very common for units to die in the two mile tunnel
Photo Date:  7/28/1983  Upload Date: 7/13/2020 3:22:34 PM
Location:  Norden, CA
Author:  Jerry Curlin
Categories:  Tunnel,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2)
Views:  248   Comments: 1
EB Amtrak California Zephyr meet at Switch 9
Title:  EB Amtrak California Zephyr meet at Switch 9
Description:  Jerry Curlin photo
Photo Date:  7/28/1983  Upload Date: 7/13/2020 3:23:13 PM
Location:  Emigrant Gap, CA
Author:  Jerry Curlin
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 361(F40PHR) AMTK 304(F40PH) SP 8305(SD40T-2)
Views:  452   Comments: 3
SP 8305 West at Switch 9
Title:  SP 8305 West at Switch 9
Description:  Jerry Curlin photo
Photo Date:  7/28/1983  Upload Date: 7/13/2020 3:23:21 PM
Location:  Emigrant Gap, CA
Author:  Jerry Curlin
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2) AMTK 361(F40PHR) AMTK 304(F40PH)
Views:  433   Comments: 2
SP 8305
Title:  SP 8305
Description:  RC master leads an EUOGY up the 1% between Perez and Ambrose on the Modoc sub. There are three remote helpers buried in the train. SP 8305 was later UP 4371, UP 2868:2, GECX 2868, HLCX 6104. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1984  Upload Date: 2/3/2010 8:57:22 PM
Location:  Hackamore, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2)
Views:  562   Comments: 2
Waiting at Gazelle
Title:  Waiting at Gazelle
Description:  An eastbound train on the Siskiyou Line has stopped short of the siding at Gazelle, waiting for a westbound train to arrive and take the siding.
Photo Date:  4/12/1987  Upload Date: 2/21/2016 10:44:43 PM
Location:  Gazelle, CA
Author:  Greg Brown
Categories:  Roster,Scenic
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2)
Views:  383   Comments: 3
SP 8305 West on ATSF Cajon Pass
Title:  SP 8305 West on ATSF Cajon Pass
Description:  Randy Curlin Collection
Photo Date:  4/19/1994  Upload Date: 1/14/2025 2:28:12 PM
Location:  Blue Cut, CA
Author:  Randy Curlin Collection
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2) SP 9329(SD45T-2) SP 9232(SD45T-2)
Views:  76   Comments: 0
SP 8554 W/B
Title:  SP 8554 W/B
Description:  Southern Pacific 8554 W/B Mixed Freight with 2 tunnel motors.
Photo Date:  4/19/1996  Upload Date: 8/3/2020 6:59:41 PM
Location:  Picacho, AZ
Author:  Lauren Scrafford
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,RollingStock,Track,Action
Locomotives:  SP 8554(SD40T-2) SP 8305(SD40T-2) SP 254(AC44CW)
Views:  392   Comments: 1
Kitbashed SP 8305 made in 1980
Title:  Kitbashed SP 8305 made in 1980
Description:  Everything had to be made for this thing back then.
Photo Date:  6/15/2013  Upload Date: 6/16/2013 2:43:57 AM
Location:  Simi Valley, CA
Author:  John Huey
Categories:  Model
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2)
Views:  634   Comments: 0
Kitbashed SP 8305 EMD SD40T-2 circa 1980.
Title:  Kitbashed SP 8305 EMD SD40T-2 circa 1980.
Description:  Unit has an old school ProtoPower West frame, and it pulls like a mule; time to add DCC. Model built and painted by Charlie Slater.
Photo Date:  6/15/2013  Upload Date: 6/16/2013 2:44:41 AM
Location:  Simi Valley, CA
Author:  John Huey
Categories:  Model
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2)
Views:  397   Comments: 0
Kitbashed SP 8305 Rear
Title:  Kitbashed SP 8305 Rear
Description:  State if the art in 1980; model by Charlie Slater.
Photo Date:  6/15/2013  Upload Date: 6/16/2013 2:45:18 AM
Location:  Simi Valley, CA
Author:  John Huey
Categories:  Model
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2)
Views:  421   Comments: 0
Kitbashed SP 8305
Title:  Kitbashed SP 8305
Description:  This pulls like two of the new Athearn units; think I'm going to add a Tsunami and run it again.
Photo Date:  6/15/2013  Upload Date: 6/16/2013 2:46:50 AM
Location:  Simi Valley, CA
Author:  John Huey
Categories:  Model
Locomotives:  SP 8305(SD40T-2)
Views:  486   Comments: 0
SP 8306
Title:  SP 8306
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/20/1975  Upload Date: 5/21/2019 11:22:35 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  andrew koenigsberg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8306(SD40T-2)
Views:  834   Comments: 1
SP 8306 and BN thing
Title:  SP 8306 and BN thing
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1977  Upload Date: 2/10/2004 8:17:36 PM
Location:  West Colton, CA
Author:  Unknown Auihor
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8306(SD40T-2)
Views:  791   Comments: 1
SP 8306
Title:  SP 8306
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1977  Upload Date: 2/10/2004 8:17:36 PM
Location:  West Colton, CA
Author:  Unknown Author
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8306(SD40T-2)
Views:  764   Comments: 0
Kirby Meet
Title:  Kirby Meet
Description:  8306 West is in Kirby siding meeting an eastbound coal train at what is now a much-different looking west end of Kirby. Construction of Kirby yard in the early 80's required switching the main track and siding. Cabooses disappeared around 1984. San Antonio's CPS coal trains were an SP-BN move until UP acquired the contract in the mid-80's.
Photo Date:  8/11/1977  Upload Date: 3/20/2015 3:23:50 PM
Location:  San Antonio, TX
Author:  James Barrow
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8306(SD40T-2)
Views:  584   Comments: 0
SP 8306
Title:  SP 8306
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/21/1978  Upload Date: 6/8/2008 1:33:50 PM
Location:  Industry, CA
Author:  John Huey
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 8306(SD40T-2)
Views:  1019   Comments: 0
SP 8306
Title:  SP 8306
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/13/1984  Upload Date: 6/1/2015 11:03:52 AM
Location:  Albuquerque, NM
Author:  andrew koenigsberg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8306(SD40T-2)
Views:  381   Comments: 0
Southern Pacific On The Cutoff
Title:  Southern Pacific On The Cutoff
Description:  In classic SP style, SD40T-2 #8306 leads a westbound freight drag up the Palmdale Colton Cutoff between Dike and Canyon in Cajon Pass in 1984
Photo Date:  8/15/1984  Upload Date: 9/22/2007 9:57:08 AM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Herb Iske
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8306(SD40T-2)
Views:  793   Comments: 2
SP 8306
Title:  SP 8306
Description:  An EUOGY on the Modoc line south (railroad east) of Alturas, CA. The train is entering the lower Likely loop and will begin climbing the 1.6% grade to the summit at Sage Hen. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  9/1/1984  Upload Date: 2/7/2010 3:13:09 PM
Location:  Likely, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8306(SD40T-2)
Views:  790   Comments: 1
SP 8306
Title:  SP 8306
Description:  An eastbound EUOGY has achieved the summit, and passes the east switch at Sage Hen, CA. At 5,548' elevation, this was the highest point on the Modoc Line. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  9/1/1984  Upload Date: 2/7/2010 4:23:52 PM
Location:  Sage Hen, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8306(SD40T-2)
Views:  595   Comments: 1


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