No. 8 has bounced around. It was in Carson City for a while, and has been in a park next to the old passenger station in Sparks, Nevada for many years.

8, 9 and 18 were former NCO 8, 9 and 12 that SP moved to the former C&C after they bought and standard gauged the NCO circa 1929. 8 and 18 were retired in late 1954 when the GE 50 ton diesel No 1 arrived. No 9 was one of the last SP steam engines in regular revenue freight service when it last ran in 1959 when the No 1 was in the shop at Bakersfield for work.

Service over Montgomery Pass ended in 1938, and the line was cut back to Laws-Keeler in 1943. This resulted in the subsequent retirement of everything except 8, 9 and 18. Some of the later engines retired were:

14 (xSouth Pacific Coast) retired 1945, stationary boiler service at Colfax, CA; scrapped 1951.

17 (xSouth Pacific Coast) retired 1945, stationary boiler service at Salem, OR; scrapped 1952.

22 (xFlorence & Cripple Creek; NCO) retired 1942, stationary boiler service at Bayshore (San Francisco), CA; scrapped 1949. (Sister engine to F&CC/Rio Grande Southern 20 being rebuilt for the Colorado Railroad Museum).

No 1 was sold to the scrapper and used to salvage the line, then resold to a copper mine in Mexico. At last report, it still existed converted to standard gauge and long out of service.