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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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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:  141   Comments: 0
SP Extra 9047 West at Truckee
Title:  SP Extra 9047 West at Truckee
Description:  Pulls up to the signal bridge to wait for AMTK No. 6. Work train waits to enter Track 2 toward yard on No.1 Track from the west.
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/15/2020 7:32:55 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SP 9338(SD45T-2) SP 8286(SD40T-2)
Views:  305   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:  15   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:  101   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:  15   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
Categories: 
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Views:  24   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:  55   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:  114   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
Categories: 
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Views:  37   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:  372   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:  220   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:  455   Comments: 0
Flanger ready to leave WB
Title:  Flanger ready to leave WB
Description:  SP 4831 and another GP 38-2 about to depart for the Hill.
Photo Date:  6/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/25/2020 8:46:15 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Station
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Views:  20   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:  26   Comments: 0
SSW 9686
Title:  SSW 9686
Description:  SSW and SP units with Flangers. A fair amount of snow in Truckee between tracks. Nice, clean switch in foreground.
Photo Date:  12/17/1991  Upload Date: 3/23/2020 7:20:43 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  SSW 9686(GP60)
Views:  85   Comments: 0
SSW 9686 and SP 7384
Title:  SSW 9686 and SP 7384
Description:  SSW and SP units and Flangers at Truckee, CA. 9686 looks to be pristine. The clean switch to the right of SP 7384 leads to the balloon track.
Photo Date:  12/17/1991  Upload Date: 3/23/2020 7:26:10 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  SSW 9686(GP60) SP 7384(SD40R)
Views:  149   Comments: 0
SSW 9686
Title:  SSW 9686
Description:  Rear 3/4 view of SSW 9686. Spreaders in background next to MOW Office.
Photo Date:  12/17/1991  Upload Date: 3/23/2020 7:31:54 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  SSW 9686(GP60)
Views:  75   Comments: 0
Flangers resting
Title:  Flangers resting
Description:  It felt good to stand between these workhorses. Idling EMDs were always nice to hear.
Photo Date:  12/17/1991  Upload Date: 3/23/2020 7:37:10 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
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Views:  15   Comments: 0
Flangers and units
Title:  Flangers and units
Description:  Waiting the next call out.
Photo Date:  12/17/1991  Upload Date: 3/23/2020 7:40:58 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
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Views:  20   Comments: 0
Flanger LH plow.
Title:  Flanger LH plow.
Description:  Where the work happens.
Photo Date:  12/17/1991  Upload Date: 3/23/2020 7:54:32 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  21   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:  134   Comments: 0
SP 6889 and mates wait.
Title:  SP 6889 and mates wait.
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/8/1993  Upload Date: 3/26/2020 5:19:12 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  SP 6889(SD45T-2R)
Views:  117   Comments: 0
Flanger and units wait.
Title:  Flanger and units wait.
Description:  At Truckee Yard
Photo Date:  2/8/1993  Upload Date: 3/26/2020 5:22:06 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  30   Comments: 0
Flanger view
Title:  Flanger view
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/8/1993  Upload Date: 3/26/2020 5:25:05 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  31   Comments: 0
Flanger view
Title:  Flanger view
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/8/1993  Upload Date: 3/26/2020 5:27:36 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  35   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:  39   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:  124   Comments: 0
SP spreader set set
Title:  SP spreader set set
Description:  Snowy scene near sunrise.
Photo Date:  2/10/1993  Upload Date: 3/26/2020 3:19:31 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Winter,Night,Yard
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Views:  49   Comments: 0
Flanger turned on balloon track, heading west
Title:  Flanger turned on balloon track, heading west
Description:  Sunrise at Truckee after the storm has passed. L-P Mill is gone. Clear view to balloon track now.
Photo Date:  2/10/1993  Upload Date: 3/26/2020 5:13:52 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4817(GP38-2) SP 4811(GP38-2)
Views:  243   Comments: 1
Flanger at sunrise
Title:  Flanger at sunrise
Description:  Preparing to head west.
Photo Date:  2/10/1993  Upload Date: 3/26/2020 5:09:37 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Bruce Flaws
Categories:  Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  SP 4817(GP38-2) SP 4811(GP38-2)
Views:  164   Comments: 0

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