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Western Pacific in Color

By: Jim Boyd

Morning Sun Books, Inc., 2006
Hardcover, 128 pages, 99% Color (8 B&W Pictures)

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A wonderful chronological look at Western Pacific’s motive power development from the end of steam to the UP merger. Lots of great action!

Contents Include:

Foreward

Introduction

THE ERA OF STEAM
1906: Consolidations
1908: Ten-Wheelers
1909: Switchers
1918: Mikados
1936: The Florida Mountains
WP Steam Roster
1917-1939: Articulateds and the 1943 "War Babies"
1939-1945: Switching to Diesel
1941-1944: FT Freight Diesels

THE CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR
March 20, 1949: Debut of a Domeliner
FP7s and the Oakland Mole
July 1958: Out of the Mole and into the Street
East to Feather River
"The Canyon"
Keddie Wye
Williams Loop and Portola
Salt Lake City Union Station
"Thru the Rockies"

"ZEPHYRIZING" THE FLEET
Simplifying the FT's
January 1950: F7s to Replace Steam
May 1950: The "Zephyrettes"
April 1, 1948: The Sunken BL2s
Summer 1952: SW9s and GP7s
September 1955: GP9s
November 1959 / July 1960: High-Nose GP20s
November 1963: Low-Nosed GP35s
June 2, 1966: GP40s and the FT Trade-Ins
1967: GE U30Bs
Old Warriors in New Colors
"Pimpkin II"
Geeps of a Different Stripe
Switching to Solid Orange
July 1969: Afternoon in the Canyon
March 21, 1970: Life After the Zephyr

"IT AIN'T EASY BEING GREEN"
1970-1971: Green GP 40s
July 1971: Buying GE Demonstrators
May 1972: GE U23Bs
May 1972: Renumbering the U30Bs
Three SW1500s and a Ferry Tale
Old Warriors in Even Newer Colors
Run-Throughs on the Inside Gateway
Red, White & Blue and Orange
Orange Returns
The "Fab Four"

THE SUBSIDIARIES
Sacramento Northern
The NYO&W FT's
Tidewater Southern
Subsidiaries in Green
Maps and Rosters

EPILOGUE
Life After the Merger