SOUTHERN PACIFIC FREIGHT CARS - VOL 4: BOX CARS (REVISED)/Thompson Maps If you love railroads

If you love railroads

it still operated a substantial long distance passenger service in the several years before Amtrak

Lake Louise

This video also includes footage of the Southern Pacific numbers 2472 and 4449

beet loading and processing

SOUTHERN PACIFIC FREIGHT CARS - VOL 4: BOX CARS (REVISED)/Thompson Maps If you love railroadsTHIS BOOK HAS BEEN REVISED AND REPRINTED AND IS AVAILABLE ONCE AGAIN! This excellent book features the complete history of SP boxcars. Chapter headings: Freight Car Basics; Early Box and Combination Cars; Fruit, Ventilated and Refrigerator Cars; Huntington Common Standard Box Cars; The Harriman Period; The Post Harriman Period; Box Cars of the World War I Era; Return to Traditional SP Design; Box Cars of the Late 1920s; Steel Box Cars of AAR Design;