Southern Pacific EMD units at Colton Wig-Wag

A trio of MK rebuilt SD40M-2's street running on 9th Street in Colton, Ca over former Pacific Electric Territory.

Crossings protected by Mechanical Flagman "Wig-Wag" signals dating to the PE days.

This is the North side "Wig-Wag" with the classic clink-clink-ca-clink noise.

After years of trying to get SP heritage units on this stretch it happened on 3-21-07.

SP 8664 (Former CNW 911) leads
UP 2741 (Former SP 8642, former CNW 957) mid
UP 2718 (Former SP 8665 former KCS 636) trailing

Dedicated to the memory of the Southern Pacific, and its Pacific Electric Division.

Filmed 3-21-07

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• WigWag
• Flagman
• PE
• SP
• UP
• Train
• EMD
• MK
• SD40
• CNW

[maxitrain989]

What is the clink clink ca clink?

[RTD1]

Thats the Wig-Wag sound.

[RTD1]

Patched means a UP number on the previous roads paint scheme.

[RTD1]

The paddle lights were dim on this one.

[DetroitLove4U]

Wig-Wags are the most Legendary aspects of railroads.

[singwith]

Awesome!

[MrGarrett223]

Isnt that a beauty!! An unpatched SP Speed letter!!

[x3strikers]

i miss that wigwag!!! 25 years of service from what i heard it was sweet music to the ears "O" and 9th crossing will be missed

[7nordic]

Its great to see former SP units still in gray hanging in there

[PhantomDark21]

All this time never seen a wig-wag crossing. Only certain state have wig-wag?

[ctw100s]

@RTD1 Did You Know this wigwag is on M streets and the other one with a Mec bell is on O streets？

[Nathanrailfan]

@panamcunard Then you are sure to like the SPSF kodachrome merger. It is SP and SF together.

[panamcunard]

It good to see loco in SP livery again. I grew up watch Santa Fe and SP locomotive.

[judahrice]

cool sp

[gangbanginfolife09]

@GeileSexyZeiten ya theres a few, mostly in local service, if i recall right there is about 9 unpatched left but all but 1 are in storage lines

[JIMBOSKI58]

Raised in Banning about 30 miles east of Colton or East of Beaumont Hill. Our house was across the tracks from the SP depot. During the late 40's and early 50's, I was unstoppable leaving the kitchen table and running to the tracks when the wig-wags would start up.