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Southern Pacific In Color Vol 3 Classic Scarlet 1958-1971 by Jim Boyd
Southern Pacific In Color Vol 3 Classic Scarlet 1958-1971 by Jim Boyd
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
128 pages Reflections from the lights on some photos.
Morning Sun Books
Copyright 2003
CONTENTS
FOREWORD / 3
INTRODUCTION / 5
CHAPTER 1
Announcing the Scarlet / 6
Old Units - New Colors / 16
CHAPTER 2
The Second Generation / 20
Bixby, Illinois / 30
CHAPTER 3
Monster Quest / 34
Big Boys / 40
Double Diesels / 42
Monsters in the Night / 44
CHAPTER 4
1965 and Beyond / 46
The SD45 / 56
Ridin' on the Cotton Belt / 60
More and More Six-Motors / 44
Renumbered Widows / 90
The Alcos of Avondale ... / 92
... and Elsewhere / 96
Switching to Scarlet / 98
Basic Geeps / 104
CHAPTER 5
Power to the Passengers / 108
The SDP45 / 124
Preview: Tunnel Motors to Super Cabs / 128
Rosters and MAPS
Roster 1958-1965 / 24
Roster 1966-1967 / 49
SSW Map / 68
Roster 1968-1971 / 79
SP Map / 110
INTRODUCTION
A NEW ERA BEGAN for Southern Pacific in the summer of 1958 when the complex "Black Widow" diesel livery was replaced by the simpler and less-expensive-to-apply scarlet and Lark gray.
Coinciding within a few months of the image change was the end of the "first generation" of dieseldom, even though that particular phrase had not yet been coined. The first diesels to be delivered in the new livery were also the SP's first low-nose hood units.
This book picks up the story of SP's diesel power where Morning Sun Books' Southern Pacific In Color, Volume 2, Black Daylights - Black Wido
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