WHAT IS NEW AT DAVID COSCIA'S
SOUTHERN PACIFIC SITE

This page is part of David Coscia's SP site

August 31, 2008 – SP equipment (revised caboose list and added Laws RR Museum), SP Hollywood (added Adventures of Superman)

 

August 10, 2008 – SP equipment (updated donations from CSRM to various groups)

 

July 26, 2008 – SP video (added Heron Video Rail), SP models N (added AL&W lines and Kato covered hopper),

            SP models HO (added Westerfield B-50-2 with Van Dorn ends; added AL&W Lines structures/details)

           

June 20, 2008 – RRindex (added Postcards of SFV page), SP depots (removed Tehachapi, destroyed by fire June 13, 2008)

            SP equipment (added O&C 1016, LTR&TC 24), SP Models HO (updated many SP and T&NO models),

            SP Hollywood (added The Roaring Twenties, The Defiant Ones, and Darby’s Rangers), SP steam (updated T&NO 771),

            SP structures (added section tool house; Medford, OR)

 

April 27, 2008 – SP equipment (updated GGRM)

 

April 20, 2008 – SP Hollywood (updated “The Earth is Mine”), SP Models HO (added Atlas BLCX covered hopper),

            SP Models N (added Kato GS-4 and Morning Daylight cars)

 

April 6, 2008 – SSW depots (Addison depot destroyed by fire March 8, 2008), SP Hollywood (added Whispering Smith Speaks),

            SP equipment (added SP 202250 double-door box car and SP 1029 cupola caboose)

 

March 7, 2008 – SP steam (updated SP 1744), SP equipment (added SPM-5723), SP videos (added Southern Pacific’s Coast Daylight Route)

 

February 17, 2008 – SP videos (added The “Desert Princess”), SP equipment (SP 6777 and SP 10400 at Pike's Peak Historic Streetcar Museum)

 

January 13, 2008 – SP equipment (SP 9001 passenger, SP 125433 boxcar, SSW 56822 boxcar),

            SP Hollywood (Criss-Cross, Jim Thorpe-All American, The Outsider (1961), While the City Sleeps, Little Fauss and Big Halsey)

 

December 21, 2007 – SP depots (Moorpark, CA; added stand-in), SP equipment (WPRRM&C swapped SP caboose 4107 for CCT caboose 24)

 

November 4, 2007 – SP depots (updated Globe, AZ)

 

September 30, 2007 – SP videos (added PK’s Provideo Services)

 

September 23, 2007 – SP depots (updated Kosse, TX)

 

August 26, 2007 – SP equipment (added SP 107 “Del Monte”)

 

August 22, 2007 – PE equipment (added PE 530, moved to OERM from cabin in Crestline, CA)

 

August 17, 2007 – SP depots (added Mapleton, OR)

 

July 29, 2007 – SP equipment (added Alaska Railroad; added SP 2486)

 

July 8, 2007 – SP Hollywood (added Beverly Hills Cop II, Smokey and the Bandit, and Easy Rider), SP structures (bunkhouse in Sanderson, TX),

            SP equipment (added SP 4436, updated Western Railway Museum)

 

July 1, 2007 – RRindex (added link to Orange Empire Railway Museum), Railroad poetry (added T&NO Blues)

 

June 17, 2007 – SP depots (removed Canoga Park, CA – demolition completed Feb. 2007; Flatonia, TX – severely damaged by wind storm June 3, 2007),

            SP equipment (added NWP 55, O&C 1014, SP 9012)

 

May 28, 2007 – SP equipment (added SP 1303), SP Hollywood (added “Killer of Sheep”), SP models HO (added Bruce Barney)

 

May 18, 2007 – SP equipment (added NRHS – Yaquina Pacific Railroad)

 

April 14, 2007 – SP models HO (added several Muir Model kits), SP models N (added Mocalova Models),

            SP equipment (added two sites:  Duncan Mills Depot and Santa Rosa Depot), SP depots (CA, updated Montague and added its freight shed)

 

April 1, 2007 – SP equipment (added Antique Powerland Museum, updated NRHS – PNWC)

 

March 25, 2007 – PE equipment (added Vineland substation in Baldwin Park), SP depots (removed Chandler, AZ - demolished),

            SP equipment (added several NWP and NWPMW cars, SSW drover caboose)

 

February 25, 2007 – SP equipment (updated all steam wreckers)

 

February 16, 2006 – SP equipment and SP Steam (updated equipment formerly at Golden Gate RR Museum)

 

February 11, 2007 – SP equipment (added NWP 611 at Railtown), PE equipment (added structures in Santa Monica and Venice)

 

February 6, 2007 – SP models HO (added Intermountain AC-12), SP models N (updated many kits), SP equipment (NWP 37 and 38 coaches)

 

January 26, 2007 – LARy equipment (added Inglewood substation)

 

January 20, 2007 – PE equipment (added Wingfoot depot), C&C depots (added Owenyo, photo of first depot)

 

January 14, 2007 - SP equipment (updated Petaluma & Santa Rosa 1 and RDC-1)

January 1, 2007 - SP videos (add Charles Smiley, Scarlet and Gray Memories)

December 17, 2006 - SP depots (added Rillito, AZ), SP Videos (added Scholl - Southern Pacific Vintage Steam)

December 3, 2006 – C&C depots (added Luning, and redid entire page), SP depots (added CA, Canoga Park freight, and AZ, Litchfield;

            both threatened with demolition)

November 18, 2006 - SPNG depots (added and updated several stations, especially Mt. Whitney)

November 12, 2006 - RRindex (added link to RecycleStore), SP models HO (updated Sunshine, Stewart, Westerfield, and Funaro & Carmelengo)

October 24, 2006 - SP equipment (added Pacific Railcar Museum)

October 11, 2006 - SP models HO (added Thomas A. York Ent. Model), LARy equipment (updated LARy 1435, minor changes on remainder of page)

September 17, 2006 - SP models HO (added Amarillo Railroad Museum; added comments by Tim O'Connor)

August 31, 2006 - SP models HO (updated kits by American Model Builders)

August 13, 2006 - SP Depots (deleted Coquille, OR; demolished circa 2000), SPNG Depots (updated Queens and Manzanar)

July 24, 2006 - SP models N (added Rock Island "Golden State" equipment), SP models HO (added Speedwitch models),

            Depots in Mexico (updated Agua Prieta), SP equipment (updated Pacific Locomotive Association and Golden Gate Railroad Museum)

June 10, 2006 - SP depots (Waco freight, destroyed by fire June 10, 2006), SP HO Models (added Palms Station), SP structures (added Keeler, CA water tank)

May 19, 2006 - RRIndex (added link to Art Fisher), SP equipment (updated dome cars, various locations)

May 6, 2006 - SP depots (updated New Mexico depots; removed Winnemuca, NV)

April 14, 2006 - SP depots (updated Millbrae, Fremont, Mulford, and Petaluma freight.  Removed Castroville: demolished and site to be redeveloped)

April 10, 2006 - SSW customers (massive update from forgotten email), RRindex (removed broken links)

April 6, 2006 - SP Models HO (added Alpine Models under PE structures and SP structures), SP Hollywood (added Pearl Harbor),

            Steam Rosters - Added Fred Stindt rosters for 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, and 1959.

February 19, 2006 - SP Videos (added 4449 and Lowe DVD's to Machines of Iron), SP Models HO (Trout Creek HOn3 flatcar)

January 29, 2006 - SP steam (updated SP 1215, now at San Jose), SP equipment (Portola Museum now the Western Pacific Railroad Museum and Collection)

January 28, 2006 - SP models N (added George Hollwedel models - gondola, REA boxcar, and two sets of cabooses),

            SP models HO (added SPHTS model, G-50-13; Dan Hall boxcar doors)

January 14, 2006 - Espee Movies (updated several films, added "The Lucky Texan")

December 21, 2005 - Espee Movies (added Now or Never; updated 3:10 to Yuma)

December 17, 2005 - added Espee in the Movies pages

December 11, 2005 - SP videos (added Tehachapi: Eve of Change)

December 4, 2005 - SP surviving depots (added Waterford, CA, and Woodville, OR)

November 6, 2005 - PE equipment (updated Argentina equipment), Railroad poetry (Ridin' the Cotton Belt by Johnny Cash),

            SP equipment (added "Clover Colony")

October 18, 2005 - My site moved to http://webpages.charter.net/altalair/; SP equipment (SP 4004 sold from Portola RR Museum to Southwest RR Museum),

            SP steam (SP 2467 moved from Golden Gate RR Museum to California State RR Museum)(on a sad note, GGRM lost its land and is looking for a home),

            SSW depots (Oglesby burned down, Oct 4, 2005),   SP models HO (added Mather stockcars, F-70-7 flatcars; H-70-16 and H-100-21 covered

            hoppers; H-100-42 Orton open hoppers, and a section on passenger interiors)

 

August 29, 2005 - SP surviving depots (added Jacumba, CA; updated Dinuba, CA)

July 26, 2005 - SP models HO (added Terry Wegmann PFE kits, Century Foundry kits, and American Limited Model kits)

July 18, 2005 - SP equipment (added SP 1218 to Pacific Locomotive Association), Depots in Mexico (added photo links)

July 11, 2005 - LARy equipment (added South Park Shops), SP depots (added Florence, AZ), PE equipment (added Pasadena motor coach barn),

            SP steam (TNO 982 moved from a park to a street), SSW depots (updated Waco passenger and freight depots),

            SP videos (added Tehachapi: End of an era, and Daylight: Most Beautiful Train in the World)

June 29, 2005 - Depots in Mexico (revised info for depots; footnoted information and clarified sources of same)

June 27, 2005 - homepage (added page; depots of SP subsidiaries in Mexico), SP depots (removed Tecate, Sonora, Mex; added Earlimart, CA, and Palms, CA)

May 30, 2005 - SP branches (added SPdeM and Nacozari; put all Mexican lines together)

May 2, 2005 - SP depots (added Tecate, Sonora, Mexico), SP structures (added Hotel Playa de Cortes, Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico;

            added Elsie, OR, water tank; deleted Laws, CA, water tank, it fell March 6, 2005)

April 16, 2005 - homepage (deleted link to Golden Spike Rail, added link to Julio Cesar Photography), 

            SP steam (updated TNO 745, in running order thanks to Louisiana Steam Train Association)

March 25, 2005 - SP structures (moved Black Butte and Grass Lake from Oregon to California, they were mislabeled;

            deleted Topock, AZ, it is ATSF; added Enright, OR and Waelder, TX), SSW depots (added Piggott, Arkansas still standing)

February 12, 2005 - SP models HO (added Red Caboose Evans coil, update Branchline and Walthers passenger cars),

            SP models N (update Des Plains passenger cars)

January 31, 2005 - SP depots (Durham, CA is Espee, so get a sandwich at the shop, a CS#22 with stucco),

            Railroad poetry (added Railway to the Clouds by Chris Tobar)

January 17, 2005 - SP depots (removed Armona, CA - no longer exists; removed Durham, CA - sandwich shop is freight portion of a Sacramento Northern

            depot, passenger section is a house; added Locke, CA freight house), NWP depots (added second Larkspur depot, and updated both),

            SP equipment (updated PLA, all equipment moved from Oakland to Niles Canyon; moved SP 5623 to PLA; added TNO 911)

January 3, 2005 - SP equipment (updated Portola, added TR6A), SP depots (updated Hanford and Redding)

December 4, 2004 - SP equipment (fixed swap of suburban coaches between CSRM and Niles Canyon; updated SP 4423 at Niles; added PFE locomotive and

            SP 10400), PE equipment (added Mission Road Viaduct)

November 11, 2004 - NWP depots (updated Larkspur), SP depots (updated Yuba City, CA)

October 1, 2004 - SP equipment (added Martin Hansen; updated CSRM and added Railtown 1897 courtesy of Kyle Wyatt);      

            SP depots (deleted Menlo Park freight, CA - demolished long ago, model railroad uses REA depot; Deming, NM - moved)

September 18, 2004 - SP Equipment (GGRM - removed SD45, added 6608 econo bag), HO Models (added MDC gondola), SP depots

            (Cottage Grove, OR, razed, added TX - Seguin and San Leon, updated California - Yountville, St. Helena, Rutherford, Benecia, and Durham)

August 10, 2004 - SP equipment (added Juniata Terminal Co.), SPdepots (added Paige, Texas), SP structures (updated Tower 17)

August 2, 2004 - SP equipment (added SP 2467-2468), SP depots (Perrydale, OR; was to be moved and restored, not feasible due to massive dry rot and

            other structural problems)

July 12, 2004 - SP videos (added Freedom Train to MLMP), SP models N (added Union Station Products)

July 10, 2004 - SP models HO (added Budd cars by Union Station Products)

July 8, 2004 - SP models HO (added Hi-Tech concrete phone booth, Walthers bi-level commute cars)

July 6, 2004 - SP videos (added Mainline Motion Pictures), SP structures (removed Lenzen St. Yard roundhouse, table, and water tower, since dismantled over

            several years, per CRTC.org), SP equipment (added SP 1201, and SP 3885, both diesels), SP depots (added Loomis, not destroyed, moved;

            Monterey freight - demolished by city)

July 1, 2004 - SP Branches (updated Tucson and Rio Grande Divisions, info from Bob Knoll)

June 6, 2004 - SP Depots (added Monroe, OR, and updated several other OR depots), SP equipment (added SP 1000 to CSRM)

May 16, 2004 - SP Depots (added Pixley, CA), Railroad Lyrics (added Train Driver)

April 26, 2004 - SP equipment (added Turlock Western equipment), PE equipment (added substation #2 in Pasadena)

April 8, 2004 - SP Models HO (added Southern Car and Foundry Harriman cars, and Walthers C-30-1 caboose),

            SP depots (updated Tangent, OR), SP equipment (updated business car Pine Bluff and SP 292)

March 7, 2004 - SP Audio (added Farewell to Steam), LARy Equipment (added LARy 521), PE equipment (added PE 680),      

            SP structures (added foreman houses at Caliente and Tipton), SP equipment (PLA Niles Canyon - NW2 and two suburban coaches)

January 30, 2004 - PE Equipment (updated PE 4601), SP structures (added two shelter shed-storerooms from latest issue of SPHTS Trainline)

January 11, 2004 - home page (added link to Santa Cruz Collage; SP audio cd's), SP audio (added 2 cd set Robin Haas)

December 31, 2003 - SP equipment (numerous changes to PLA Niles, and transfer of 2101 and 2118 to CSRM)

November 23, 2003 - SP Audio (added Daylight Sales); SP equipment (added SP 4423 to Niles Canyon),

            SP Steam (updated CP 233; sold by Niles Canyon to CSRM)

November 16, 2003 - SP structures (Crescent Lake, OR: added water tank and Senior Roundhouse Foreman's house)

November 1, 2003 - created SP audio page, added link to homepage, removed broken link to Santa Cruz Collage,

October 18, 2003 - HO models (Red Caboose GS gondolas with extensions for sugar beet service), NWP depots (updated Tiburon, still standing next to water),

            SP structures (added Oil Junction train order office and San Pedro outhouse; deleted Fresno water tower, recently razed),

            SP depots (added Chowchilla and Capitola, deleted Richmond)

August 30, 2003 - SP depots (updated New Iberia, LA)

August 20, 2003 - PE equipment (added Rio Vista shelter)

August 18, 2003 - SP depots (Loomis, CA - demolished last week; Strathmore, CA - moved in July)

August 10, 2003 - PE equipment (added Redlands bridge and Torrance Viaduct)

July 27, 2003 - SP Steam (EPSW 1 moved to new transit terminal), SP Videos (added "This Was Pacific Electric")

July 18, 2003 - SP depots (added Simonton, TX), SP steam (updated 771; will be moved from Victoria to Grapevine),

            SP models HO (added Quality Craft, Vert-A-Pac kit; older craftsman wood kit),

            SP models N (added JnJ trains, Harriman and lightweight passenger car kits)

July 6, 2003 - SP depots (Alice, TX - razed 2002; added Floresville, TX; updated numerous TX depots),

            SP structures (added T&NO diesel shops San Antonio, Tower 40, and Runge section house)

June 30, 2003 - PE equipment (added San Pedro depot), SP depots (added Tarpey, CA; updated Halsey, OR), SP equipment (added SP 4401)

June 18, 2003 - SP equipment (added SP 2054, RSD12)

May 31, 2003 - SP equipment (removed SP 1865 coach, Colfax:  ex-MKT), SP structures (Newark Tower razed),

May 4, 2003 - SP equipment (added SP 1518, former EMD 990, first SD7; added site for Illinois Railway Museum)

April 26, 2003 - SP depots (moved Santa Rosa, CA, to NWP depots), NWP depots (added 1st and 2nd Santa Rosa)

April 22, 2003 - SP depots (deleted Sunnyvale, CA; razed early 2003),  SP Models HO (updated Westerfield stock car kits to several regional roads - PE, AE,

            SPdeM), SP Structures (added Selma foreman's house)

March 16, 2003 - SP equipment (PFE 74583), SP structures (company hospital, Houston, TX), SP depots (freight depot at Hood, CA),

            SSW depots (updated North Little Rock)

March 2, 2003 - LARy equipment (added LARy 733)

February 23, 2003 - SP equipment (added SP 9110 4-4-2 sleeper), PE equipment (updated 4601), SP depots (added Yuma, AZ, freight house)

February 16, 2003 - SP equipment (added locomotives: SPMW 6-C, and SP 7863), PE equipment (added PE 510 and Blimp in Torrance),

            SP models N scale (corrected info for products by Wheels of Time)

February 2, 2003 - Home page (added link to Santa Cruz Collage), SP structures (Tower 121, San Antonio, TX, destroyed by fire),

            SP depots (updated California depots at Edison and Long Beach)

January 2, 2003 - SP videos (added "Diesel Power on the Southern Pacific, 1942-1985")

December 31, 2002 - SP depots (updated Texas depots at Carmine and Kingsland)

December 24, 2002 - SP depots (updated numerous sites in TX), SSW depots (updated some in TX), SP line structures (added some sites in TX)

December 22, 2002 - PE equipment (deleted SBVT car barn; incorrect building), SP depots (deleted Kentucky House, CA; added Hillsdale, CA, and South

            Sausalito, CA), SP line structures (added water tank Oakridge, OR, and Lacoste, TX), SSW depots (updated Hamilton, TX; still standing)

 

November 17, 2002 - PE equipment (added SBVT car barn), SP videos (added new company, Skyfire Video)

 

November 10, 2002 - PE equipment (added Santa Ana River truss bridge near 5th Street), SP depot (added Bertram, TX), SP equipment (added SPMW 5986),

            SP line structures (added crossing shanty at Cedar Park, TX; deleted water tank at  West Cruzette, OR; scrapped two weeks ago)

 

October 18, 2002 - SP depot (updated Mill City, OR), SP equipment (SP caboose 439 to 409)

 

September 29, 2002 - SP equipment (deleted SP 9023, scrapped 5 years ago), SP depots (added Luling, TX),

 

SP line structures (added H&TC handcar shed and crossing guard shanty at Dallas, TX)

 

August 31, 2002 - SP equipment (added DLMX 4219), SP steam (updated SP 1297)

 

August 25, 2002 - SP equipment (changed Odgen Union Station to Utah State Railroad Museum, added SP 3769),
            SP steam (updated SP 1297), SSW depots (updated Ireland, TX, which is standing)

 

August 18, 2002 - SP surviving depots (updated Berkeley, CA to Berkeley West, CA)

 

August 12, 2002 - SP surviving depots (added Marathon, TX, and updated Dallas, TX; depot in Fair Park)

 

August 4, 2002 - SP CS 23 depots (new info Berkeley depot)

 

July 28, 2002 - PE equipment (created structure table, added Puente Largo bridge), SP structures (added Webb House),

            homepage (removed gif, created text link to this page)

 

July 20, 2002 - PE Equipment (updated 457 and 963), SP equipment (added Pullman Equipment Leasing Corporation)

 

July 13, 2002 - LARy equipment (added 1030), PE equipment (added both Whittier depots), SP depots (updated Whittier, CA, and Sparks, NV)

 

July 6, 2002 - Models N scale (added Con-Cor GS-4 locomotive, and Intermountain 12-panel boxcar)

 

June 23, 2002 - PE equipment (San Bernardino substation, #24; 595 W. Rialto, at F Street, torn down last week),

SP videos (added Dave's Video Editing and Valhalla Video Productions)

 

June 16, 2002 - SP depots (Elgin, TX updated), SP equipment (added Arkansas Railway Museum), SP structures (added Arkansas Railway Museum backshop)

 

June 2, 2002 - PE equipment (added PE 00197), SP equipment (added SPNG 6)

 

May 27, 2002 - NWP depots (Hopland standing, added Ukiah), SP depot (removed Ukiah),

SP equipment (added SP 3604, SP 3605, and SP 6738), SP steam locomotives (added SP 2018)

 

May 19, 2002 - PE equipment (added Colton and North Hollywood depots), SP depots (added Pomona, CA, and Columbus, NM),

            SP equipment (added "Los Angeles", "Houston", and SP 204), homepage (created link), What is New (created page)