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SP 1218, this S6 lives!
Author: Steve Sloan, San Jose, CA
Date: 05-23-2014 - 07:59

This S6 is still alive!

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Southern Pacific Alco S6 1218 in Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 22, 1974.

Reportedly (sources) S6 SP 1218 was built by ALCo in June 1955 as SP 1051, SP Class DS-9, construction number 81301, order number S-3242. It became SP 1218, SP Class AS409-1 in the 1965 renumbering. It was retired in June 1980 by Southern Pacific and purchased in July 1980 by Foster Farms, Livingston, CA Donated: 2004 to the Pacific Locomotive Association by Foster Farms.

http://www.ssloan.net/trains/sp/_images0002/sp1218_0001.jpg

Former SP S6 1218 at Niles Canyon Railway's Brightside Yard shop, near Sunol, CA on March 13, 2011.

http://www.ssloan.net/trains/sp/_images0002/sp1218_0002.jpg

Information, stories, suggestions, comments and/or constructive corrections are appreciated.

~Steve Sloan

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Steve Sloan E-mail: steve@ssloan.net

These photos, and many others, are on my train photo website here.

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