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Owner: Southern Pacific
Model:EMD SD40T-2Built As:SP 8559 (SD40T-2)
Serial Number:786174-61Order No:786174
Frame Number:786174-61Built:2/1979
Other locos with this serial:  SP 8559(SD40T-2) GECX 8661(SD40T-2) UP 8661(SD40T-2) ALL 9507(SD40T-2)
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SP 8559 with Eastbound frieght.
Title:  SP 8559 with Eastbound frieght.
Description:  I always though the tunnel motor versions of the SD-40 and SD -45 were some of the sharpest units around and unique to Southern Pacific.
Photo Date:  10/12/1979  Upload Date: 12/2/2016 10:37:08 AM
Location:  City of Industry, CA
Author:  Clark Gillis
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8559(SD40T-2)
Views:  223   Comments: 0
Cab hop.
Title:  Cab hop.
Description:  SP SD40T-2s 8559, 8505 WB at Mojave, Calif. Photo taken on Sept. 1981
Photo Date:  9/1/1981  Upload Date: 10/15/2013 11:44:57 AM
Location:  Mojave, CA
Author:  gordon vincent
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8505(SD40T-2) SP 8559(SD40T-2)
Views:  692   Comments: 0
SP 8559
Title:  SP 8559
Description:  SP 8559 rolls through the nothingness near Ansel a little south of Mojave.
Photo Date:  3/26/1983  Upload Date: 11/25/2023 9:57:36 AM
Location:  Ansel, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8559(SD40T-2)
Views:  30   Comments: 0
SP 8559
Title:  SP 8559
Description:  SP 8559 was delivered in February 1979.
Photo Date:  12/29/1983  Upload Date: 11/25/2023 9:58:10 AM
Location:  Dike, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 8559(SD40T-2)
Views:  40   Comments: 0
SP 8559
Title:  SP 8559
Description:  OXNARD CA Jan 30 1986 -- An SD40T-2 heads up an autorack train and has its red headlight on. The nose is heavily in shadow but this Okie couldn’t resist a tunnel motor shot.
Photo Date:  1/30/1986  Upload Date: 10/24/2011 4:08:07 AM
Location:  Oxnard, CA
Author:  Charles Stookey
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8559(SD40T-2)
Views:  468   Comments: 0
Westbound Helper set
Title:  Westbound Helper set
Description:  At the East Switch
Photo Date:  10/24/1987  Upload Date: 10/8/2003 9:54:02 PM
Location:  Dougren, OR
Author:  Don Ringler, Jr
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8559(SD40T-2) SP 8951(SD45)
Views:  760   Comments: 0
SP 8559
Title:  SP 8559
Description:  SP 8559 works uphill pass the siding at Cliff...on the far right is the horseshoe curve at Caliente.
Photo Date:  8/6/1989  Upload Date: 11/25/2023 9:58:45 AM
Location:  Cliff, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8559(SD40T-2)
Views:  25   Comments: 0
SP 8559
Title:  SP 8559
Description:  SP 8559 is making slow progress while the mid-train helper can be heard but is not yet in view.
Photo Date:  8/6/1989  Upload Date: 11/25/2023 9:59:03 AM
Location:  Cliff, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8559(SD40T-2)
Views:  25   Comments: 0
SP 8559 and ATSF 5039
Title:  SP 8559 and ATSF 5039
Description:  While SP 8559 rolls by working up hill at Cliff on the far right ATSF 5039 can be seen drifting down from Bealville about the enter the horseshoe curve at Caliente.
Photo Date:  8/6/1989  Upload Date: 11/25/2023 9:59:19 AM
Location:  Cliff, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8559(SD40T-2) ATSF 5039(SD40-2)
Views:  22   Comments: 0
SP 8559 and SP 8959
Title:  SP 8559 and SP 8959
Description:  Adding some extra horsepower to SP 8559 up front is this six unit mid-train helper set with the crew in SP 8959.
Photo Date:  8/6/1989  Upload Date: 11/25/2023 9:59:36 AM
Location:  Cliff, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8559(SD40T-2) SP 8959(SD45)
Views:  40   Comments: 0
SP 8559, SP 1963, and ATSF 5039
Title:  SP 8559, SP 1963, and ATSF 5039
Description:  On the rear of SP 8559 East is caboose SP 1963, while on the far right ATSF 5039 is now making its way into Caliente and on to Bakersfield.
Photo Date:  8/6/1989  Upload Date: 11/25/2023 9:59:55 AM
Location:  Cliff, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8559(SD40T-2) ATSF 5039(SD40-2)
Views:  27   Comments: 0
SP 8559
Title:  SP 8559
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/1990  Upload Date: 1/13/2010 7:58:38 PM
Location:  Houston, TX
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8559(SD40T-2)
Views:  338   Comments: 1
SP 8559 West
Title:  SP 8559 West
Description:  EsPee extra 8559 west at "Hiland", Cajon summit on the SP's Palmdale cutoff.
Photo Date:  7/30/1991  Upload Date: 10/23/2005 6:43:11 PM
Location:  Cajon Summit, CA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8559(SD40T-2)
Views:  310   Comments: 0
SP 9259, 8559, and Another Helper Ready to Push
Title:  SP 9259, 8559, and Another Helper Ready to Push
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/22/1991  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 8:29:28 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 9259(SD45T-2) SP 8559(SD40T-2)
Views:  449   Comments: 0
Espee 8559
Title:  Espee 8559
Description:  SP 8559 in charge of a welded rail train
Photo Date:  5/20/1994  Upload Date: 3/2/2020 8:35:14 PM
Location:  Cajon, CA
Author:  Paul Maciulewicz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8559(SD40T-2)
Views:  178   Comments: 1
SP 8559 West KCOAF
Title:  SP 8559 West KCOAF
Description:  Vic Neves photo
Photo Date:  9/7/1996  Upload Date: 9/19/2023 2:52:21 AM
Location:  Cannon, CA
Author:  Vic Neves
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 8559(SD40T-2) WC 6609(SD45)
Views:  60   Comments: 1
Southern Pacific
Title:  Southern Pacific
Description:  8559
Photo Date:  10/17/1998  Upload Date: 9/16/2013 11:55:54 AM
Location:  Northlake, IL
Author:  Mike Berka
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 8559(SD40T-2)
Views:  222   Comments: 0
SP 8559 WEST
Title:  SP 8559 WEST
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/27/1999  Upload Date: 8/13/2009 9:34:00 PM
Location:  Effingham, IL
Author:  Fred Goff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8559(SD40T-2) DRGW 3123(GP40-2)
Views:  547   Comments: 0

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