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Owner: Southern Pacific
Model:EMD E9ABuilt As:SP 6046 (E9A)
Serial Number:20095Order No:2068
Frame Number:2068-A1Built:12/1954
Other locos with this serial:  SP 6046(E9A)
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Wow....Espee E units.
Title:  Wow....Espee E units.
Description:  Being from the SF Bay Area, we didn't see SP E units, unless we were very lucky to hit some when we went over to the Peninsula to watch trains. So, the sound of these twin-motored units were very distinct, and got our attention as they were coming back from the west end of the engine escape track between platform tracks 7 and 6, after cutting off the inbound "Sunest Limited" that had arrived before the Lark. Power is heading back to Taylor yard for servicing.
Photo Date:  4/8/1968  Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:01:36 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Pat Flynn
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 6046(E9A)
Views:  884   Comments: 0
SP E8 6046
Title:  SP E8 6046
Description:  At least I think it's an E8......PA's went to 6045, and I thought SP had but one E8, and that would be 6046. Still recall how the two 567's in each E seemed to be not quite in snych as they throttled up and down, so it sounded like FOUR units. And they had a different sound from F's and Geeps.
Photo Date:  4/8/1968  Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:01:50 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Pat Flynn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 6046(E9A)
Views:  1803   Comments: 2
SP No. 1
Title:  SP No. 1
Description:  The high, midday summer sun made for poor lighting, but that didn't stop Joe Wilhelm from shooting the westbound SUNSET in New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. Train No. 1 was on track 12, awaiting its 12:01 PM departure, with E9A 6046, E7B 5909 and six cars: an unidentified deadhead, a baggage car, three coaches, and an AUTOMAT food service car. The 6046 was the first of the Espee's nine E9A units and was traded-in to EMD in February 1970, while the 5909 was the last of the railroad's 10 E7B's and was sent back to EMD in October 1968. A year after this photo, tracks 7-12 would be shortened by about 600 feet so that a bus parking area could be built here, and then scenes like this would no longer be possible. (approximate day)
Photo Date:  6/6/1968  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 9:48:04 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Joseph Wilhelm photo
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SP 6046(E9A)
Views:  1374   Comments: 1


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