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Viewing Album:  SP Truckee area pics from the 1980s
 
By:Bruce Flaws
Dates:1/1/1980 - 6/30/1989
Album Info:Truckee and environs, mostly 1980s.
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Working the L-P Mill. Lumber, moulding, sawdust, and planer shavings.
Title:  Working the L-P Mill. Lumber, moulding, sawdust, and planer shavings.
Description:  The "steam" rising at the left of the unit is actually smoke from the perpetual bark fire.
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 5/5/2018 8:55:47 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
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Views:  87   Comments: 0
Helpers waiting at the old freight house.
Title:  Helpers waiting at the old freight house.
Description:  The depot is undergoing renovation and the freight house will eventually have yuppie shops inside.
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 5/5/2018 9:02:04 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4339(SD9E) SP 9326(SD45T-2) SP 9376(SD45T-2)
Views:  364   Comments: 0
No.5 heads to a stop
Title:  No.5 heads to a stop
Description:  Near Truckee
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 5/11/2018 3:00:59 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 367(F40PHR)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
No. 5 heads to a stop
Title:  No. 5 heads to a stop
Description:  More rail awaiting installation
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 5/11/2018 3:05:01 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
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Views:  41   Comments: 0
SP 8521 at Truckee
Title:  SP 8521 at Truckee
Description:  The Sierra sky is so clear you can almost see the white of outer space.
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/15/2020 7:54:10 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SP 8521(SD40T-2)
Views:  150   Comments: 0
SP 9303 at Truckee
Title:  SP 9303 at Truckee
Description:  I bought SP stock at 47 when the merger was rumored, and sold it at 62 before the merger tanked. I'm old!
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/15/2020 7:58:04 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SP 9303(SD45T-2)
Views:  172   Comments: 0
3-way meet at Truckee
Title:  3-way meet at Truckee
Description:  Work train, WB freight, and Amtrak. If I'd drunk a beer for every train I saw at these crossovers, I'd still be in jail...
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/15/2020 8:04:14 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Action
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Views:  20   Comments: 0
AMTK 247 arrives at Truckee
Title:  AMTK 247 arrives at Truckee
Description:  Dig that five-chime whistle!
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/15/2020 8:08:10 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 247(F40PHR)
Views:  140   Comments: 0
AMTK No.6 arrives at Truckee
Title:  AMTK No.6 arrives at Truckee
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/15/2020 9:18:25 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Action
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Views:  19   Comments: 0
SP Extra 9047 West charges out of town and up the Hill in run 8.
Title:  SP Extra 9047 West charges out of town and up the Hill in run 8.
Description:  First helper set. Conductor and Engineer look genuinely happy. I am too. More EMDs in run 8.
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/16/2020 8:46:07 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
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Views:  29   Comments: 0
SP Extra 9047 West charges up the Hill
Title:  SP Extra 9047 West charges up the Hill
Description:  EMDs in run 8. My favorite sound. TWO helper sets in run 8 as well. Doesn't get much better.
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/16/2020 8:33:03 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 9047(SD45)
Views:  87   Comments: 0
SP Extra 9047 West at Truckee
Title:  SP Extra 9047 West at Truckee
Description:  Second helper set. Almost surprised, but very happy to hear more EMDs in run 8.
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/16/2020 8:56:11 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7384(SD40R)
Views:  158   Comments: 0
SP Extra 9047 West
Title:  SP Extra 9047 West
Description:  The "Party Wagon" passes. Many weekends saw rear end crew and girlfriends party to Sparks and back.
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/16/2020 9:00:14 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
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Views:  41   Comments: 0
SP Extra 9262 West coming at east Truckee
Title:  SP Extra 9262 West coming at east Truckee
Description:  WB freight hauling 4 GPs to Roseville for servicing approaches east Truckee.
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/16/2020 9:04:53 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 9262(SD45T-2) SP 9260(SD45T-2) SP 8545(SD40T-2) SP 7443(SD45R)
Views:  466   Comments: 1
SP Extra 9262 West meets AMTK No. 6 at Truckee
Title:  SP Extra 9262 West meets AMTK No. 6 at Truckee
Description:  Headend brakeman readies for the roolby. Welded rail on WB Main; jointed still on the EB.
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/16/2020 9:54:09 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 9262(SD45T-2) SP 9260(SD45T-2) AMTK 357(F40PH)
Views:  304   Comments: 0
SP Extra 9262 West meets AMTK No. 6 at Truckee
Title:  SP Extra 9262 West meets AMTK No. 6 at Truckee
Description:  No. 6 heads east towards Reno/Sparks. Hilltop, I-80, and the Kirby Bldg. in the background.
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/16/2020 9:59:53 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 357(F40PH) AMTK 399(F40PHR) SP 7443(SD45R) SP 3765(GP9R)
Views:  545   Comments: 0
No.6 at Truckee
Title:  No.6 at Truckee
Description:  Conductor watches SP Extra 9047 West roll by. Check out the short shorts on the dude left of the last car.
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/15/2020 9:25:23 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Action
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Views:  32   Comments: 0
SP 4843
Title:  SP 4843
Description:  Flanger and power arrives at truckee off the Hill. Thankful for knee high gaiters. Scratches on negative courtesy of Longs Drugs in Truckee.
Photo Date:  12/17/1991  Upload Date: 3/23/2020 8:03:53 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4843(GP38-2)
Views:  172   Comments: 0
Flanger view
Title:  Flanger view
Description:  SP MW 325
Photo Date:  2/8/1993  Upload Date: 3/26/2020 5:30:50 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
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Views:  49   Comments: 0
SP Work train (Flanger set) at Truckee
Title:  SP Work train (Flanger set) at Truckee
Description:  Engineer reads work order handed up by Roadmaster. Taken from Truckee Depot. About 0115 hours.
Photo Date:  2/10/1993  Upload Date: 3/25/2020 8:35:56 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4843(GP38-2)
Views:  150   Comments: 0

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