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WM 29 - Amarillo, TX - 3/4/73
Title:  WM 29 - Amarillo, TX - 3/4/73
Description:  Western Maryland GP9 29 at the Rock Island yard in Amarillo, TX on March 4, 1973.
Photo Date:  3/4/1973  Upload Date: 5/25/2010 5:25:40 PM
Location:  Amarillo, TX
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WM 29(GP9) CRIP 315(GP35)
Views:  1580   Comments: 1
WM 29
Title:  WM 29
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/4/1973  Upload Date: 3/18/2012 12:11:19 AM
Location:  Amarillo, TX
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WM 29(GP9)
Views:  1065   Comments: 0
SJVR 65 - Goshen, CA - 3/6/92
Title:  SJVR 65 - Goshen, CA - 3/6/92
Description:  San Joaquin Valley Railroad GP9 65, still wearing the colors and markings of former owner California Western, brings a short train across the Southern Pacifics mainlin at Goshen Junction, California, on March 6, 1992.
Photo Date:  3/6/1992  Upload Date: 6/25/2010 12:38:47 PM
Location:  Goshen, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CWR 65(GP9)
Views:  527   Comments: 0
SJVR 1755 - Goshen, CA - 3/6/92
Title:  SJVR 1755 - Goshen, CA - 3/6/92
Description:  San Joaquin Valley Railroad GP9 1755, still wearing the colors and markings of former owner Arizona Eastern, along with SJVR GP9 65 (ex CWR 65), crosses the Southern Pacific at Goshen Junction in Californias verdant San Joaquin Valley on March 6, 1992.
Photo Date:  3/6/1992  Upload Date: 6/25/2010 12:35:21 PM
Location:  Goshen, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AZER 1755(GP9) CWR 65(GP9)
Views:  1159   Comments: 2
SJVR 65 - Hanford, CA - 3/8/92
Title:  SJVR 65 - Hanford, CA - 3/8/92
Description:  San Joaquin Valley Railroad GP9 65, still wearing the colors and markings of former owner California Western, is ex-Southern Pacific 3411, ex-SP 3428, and was originally owned by SP subsidiary Texas & New Orleans (as their 416). The engine is seen at Hanford, California, on March 8, 1992.
Photo Date:  3/8/1992  Upload Date: 6/24/2010 11:54:53 AM
Location:  Hanford, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CWR 65(GP9)
Views:  799   Comments: 1
UP 165
Title:  UP 165
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/19/1980  Upload Date: 8/29/2011 6:29:12 PM
Location:  North Platte, NE
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 165(GP9)
Views:  1306   Comments: 0
UP 170
Title:  UP 170
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/27/1982  Upload Date: 8/29/2011 6:29:55 PM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 170(GP9)
Views:  868   Comments: 0
UP 189
Title:  UP 189
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/18/1980  Upload Date: 8/29/2011 6:31:22 PM
Location:  Las Vegas, NV
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 189(GP9)
Views:  1002   Comments: 0
UP 189
Title:  UP 189
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/18/1980  Upload Date: 8/29/2011 6:31:45 PM
Location:  Las Vegas, NV
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 189(GP9)
Views:  676   Comments: 2
UP 229
Title:  UP 229
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/19/1980  Upload Date: 8/29/2011 6:32:47 PM
Location:  North Platte, NE
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 229(GP9)
Views:  695   Comments: 0
UP 264
Title:  UP 264
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/19/1980  Upload Date: 8/29/2011 6:33:06 PM
Location:  North Platte, NE
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 264(GP9)
Views:  875   Comments: 0
MILW 285
Title:  MILW 285
Description:  Milwaukee Road GP9 285 was found in the railroads Tacoma engine facility on September 17th, 1979. The next year, the Milwaukee would no longer serve Washington, Idaho or Montana.
Photo Date:  9/17/1979  Upload Date: 12/27/2015 2:14:51 PM
Location:  Tacoma, WA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MILW 285(GP9)
Views:  590   Comments: 0
UP 306
Title:  UP 306
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/15/1973  Upload Date: 8/29/2011 6:33:42 PM
Location:  Fullerton, CA
Author:  Craig Walkfr
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 306(GP9)
Views:  1253   Comments: 1
MILW 312
Title:  MILW 312
Description:  Sitting in the Milwaukee Roads engine facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is GP9 312. Built in may 1959, this engine would eventually become Iowa Railroad Company 312, eventually being scrapped in the middle of 1984.
Photo Date:  4/5/1978  Upload Date: 2/3/2013 9:44:36 PM
Location:  Milwaukee, WI
Author:  Craig Walker Collection
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MILW 312(GP9)
Views:  997   Comments: 0
HOS 465 - Buffaloville IN - 09/30/17
Title:  HOS 465 - Buffaloville IN - 09/30/17
Description:  Hoosier Southern GP9 465 and GP7 467 are on the point of a 7-car passenger train at Buffaloville, Indiana, on September 30, 2017. HOS 465 was originally Southern Pacific subsidiary Texas & New Orleans 454. T&NO 454 was folded into the parent company in the SP's 1965 renumbering, becoming SP 3658. In 1976, the engine entered the SP's rebuild program at the Sacramento Shops in California, emerging that December as SP GP9E (also often called GP9R) number 3843. After retirement, it passed through a couple of used locomotive dealers before ending up on the Hoosier Southern.
Photo Date:  9/30/2017  Upload Date: 11/8/2017 5:14:10 PM
Location:  Buffaloville, IN
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  HOS 465(GP9)
Views:  307   Comments: 1
USAX 1401
Title:  USAX 1401
Description:  USAX 1401 has the following marked under the cab numbers: USMC 296619. This GP9 was constructed by EMD in Aufust 1959 with a low nose as Southern Pacific 5873. SP later renumbered it to 3709, then sold it to the U.S. Army Transportation School as their 002. After that, it became Department of Transpcrtation 1401 and then United States Marine Corps 296619. At one time, the lettering on the side said U.S. ARMY but the Army portion has since been painted out - most likely because this unit is assigned to USMCs Camp Pendleton, just north of Oceanside, California.
Photo Date:  12/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/6/2011 5:15:34 PM
Location:  Oceanside, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  USAX 1401(GP9)
Views:  1514   Comments: 0
BNSF 1621 - Anaheim, CA - 6/26/2010
Title:  BNSF 1621 - Anaheim, CA - 6/26/2010
Description:  A variety of rail equipment await their fate at Adams Steel in Anaheim, California, on June 26, 2010. Among them is BNSF Railway GP9 1621, which rolled out of EMDs factory in February 1956 at Northern Pacific 252, and was later numbered 1875 while in service on the Burlington Northern. A former Santa Fe GP, which belongs to the scrapper, sits to the side of the 1621, and another former BN GP is at the opposite end of the passenger cars.
Photo Date:  6/26/2010  Upload Date: 6/27/2010 6:11:38 PM
Location:  Orange, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 1621(GP9)
Views:  2172   Comments: 0
SJVR 1755 - Goshen, CA - 3/6/92
Title:  SJVR 1755 - Goshen, CA - 3/6/92
Description:  San Joaquin Valley Railroad GP9 1755, still wearing the colors and markings of former owner Arizona Eastern, along with SJVR GP9 65 (ex CWR 65), crosses the Southern Pacific at Goshen Junction in Californias verdant San Joaquin Valley on March 6, 1992.
Photo Date:  3/6/1992  Upload Date: 6/25/2010 12:34:47 PM
Location:  Goshen, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AZER 1755(GP9)
Views:  998   Comments: 5
BN 1871 - Marysville, WA - 9/18/79
Title:  BN 1871 - Marysville, WA - 9/18/79
Description:  The bell atop the short hood of Burlington Northern GP9 1871 is a dead giveaway that this is a former Northern Pacific engine (NPs 248). The local gendarme doesnt even look up as this single car train (not counting the caboose) passes by on its way south in Marysville, Washington, on September 18, 1979.
Photo Date:  9/18/1979  Upload Date: 11/17/2010 1:31:37 AM
Location:  Marysville, WA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 1871(GP9)
Views:  955   Comments: 5
BN 1922
Title:  BN 1922
Description:  NP to BN to BNSF ... Built by EMD in August 1957, Burlington Northern GP9 1922 was originally Northern Pacific 337. Just 25 years old, the 1922 is sitting in the dead line at BNs Interbay facility in Seattle, Washington, on September 17th, 1982. This engine would be placed back into service, though, and would even outlive the BN, becoming Burlington Northern Santa!Fe 1628.
Photo Date:  9/17/1982  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 2:29:41 AM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 1922(GP9)
Views:  845   Comments: 0
BN 1962
Title:  BN 1962
Description:  Assigned to Casper, Wyoming, is Burlington Northern GP9 1962. This engine was the formerChicago Burlington & Quincy 277. It would later be sold to the Great Western Railway of Colorado as their 1962. (September 10, 1983)
Photo Date:  9/10/1983  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 2:31:12 AM
Location:  Casper, WY
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 1962(GP9)
Views:  510   Comments: 0
BN 1964
Title:  BN 1964
Description:  BN GP9 1964 is ex-CB&Q 279.
Photo Date:  8/18/1987  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 1:08:54 AM
Location:  McCook, NE
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 1964(GP9)
Views:  835   Comments: 0
Coast Rail Services 1965 - Fontana, CA - 8/7/10
Title:  Coast Rail Services 1965 - Fontana, CA - 8/7/10
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/2010  Upload Date: 8/26/2010 9:33:14 PM
Location:  Fontana, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRSX 1965(GP9)
Views:  686   Comments: 0
CRSX 1965 - Fontana, CA - 2/12/11
Title:  CRSX 1965 - Fontana, CA - 2/12/11
Description:  Coast Rail Services GP9 1965 feartures unusual windows in the short hood. Originally owned by Chicago Burlington & Quincy (as their number 280, it became part of the Burlington Northern Railroads diesel fleet when the CB&Q, GN, NP and SP&S merged in 1970. BN 1965 had the short hood modified to an office around 1983 in order to accomodate removal of cabooses. Crews were unhappy with the design, however.
Photo Date:  2/12/2011  Upload Date: 2/14/2011 12:15:31 AM
Location:  Fontana, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRSX 1965(GP9)
Views:  751   Comments: 0
SP 3609
Title:  SP 3609
Description:  A pair of Southern Pacific GP9s switch cars at Martinez, California, in late April 1971. SP 3609 is the former SP 5768, and 3602 (still wearing its old "Black Widow" colors) was built as SP 5761. Both engines were built in March 1957.
Photo Date:  4/1/1971  Upload Date: 3/10/2012 12:58:14 PM
Location:  Martinez, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 3609(GP9) SP 3602(GP9)
Views:  1227   Comments: 0
PVGX 5000
Title:  PVGX 5000
Description:  Assigned to the Gavilon grain elevator in Browns, Illinois, is Peavy Grain GP9 5000, photographed on September 28, 2017. This locomotive was built for the Milwaukee Road in May 1959, as MILW 311. From the Milwaukee, this engine worked for Indiana Railroad (IRRC 311), Nucor Steel (NUCX 311), and ConAgra (CAGX 5000) and then Peavy.
Photo Date:  9/28/2017  Upload Date: 11/8/2017 5:02:01 PM
Location:  Browns, IL
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PVGX 5000(GP9)
Views:  437   Comments: 1
RCC 6550
Title:  RCC 6550
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/16/2010  Upload Date: 7/28/2011 4:32:06 PM
Location:  Norborne, MO
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  RCC 6550(GP9)
Views:  230   Comments: 0
SOU 6905
Title:  SOU 6905
Description:  A colorful assortment of power sits at the Ivy City Engine Terminal in Washington DC on a September day in 1975. Front and center is Southern Railway E8A 6905 (ex-SOU 2928, built 9/51), still in passenger service for the Southern Railway (which did not initially join the Amtrak system when it was formed in 1971). Hiding behind the E-unit is Baltimore & Ohio 6606, a steam-generator equipped GP9 used on Washington to Baltimore commuter trains. And behind that is an assortment of Amtrak SDP40F diesels (582 and, behind that, 609, with others not visible).
Photo Date:  9/1/1975  Upload Date: 2/3/2013 9:49:08 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Douglas G. Walker
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A) BO 6606(GP9) AMTK 582(SDP40F) AMTK 609(SDP40F)
Views:  1110   Comments: 0


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