SP Main - Now Available on DVD!

SPs Central California Mainline
Southern Pacific's busy San Joaquin Subdivision runs through the beautiful agricultural heartland of California's Central Valley. This important North-South route helps link Los Angeles and Portland Oregon, and provides plenty of fantastic train watching spots. Pentrex takes you back to 1996 to revisit this important Southern Pacific artery. You'll visit locations such as Bakersfield, Goshen, El Pinal, Lodi, Elvas Tower, and Roseville. During your journey, you will also be treated to sights of an elegantly restored station in Modesto, and a number of unique and impressive bridges along the way.

The variety of SP trains that roll through these fertile surroundings ranges from fast freights and locals to heavy coal drags that originated in Utah. Keeping freight moving between the two West Coast shipping ports requires lots of motive power, and a large assortment of old and new locomotives can be seen working hard to keep the railroad traffic flowing. Beautiful vistas, interesting locations, ample California sunshine, and mainline activity make SP's Central California Mainline a show you'll enjoy again and again!

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• Main
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• southern
• pacific
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• central
• california
• mainline
• trains
• railroad

[7674Princess]

I HEART Pentrex!

[trainboy94]

This looks great

[rockguitarist946]

the real reason the SP got bought by the UP is because they had been smothered to death by the ICC in three ways that i know of, the ICC wouldnt let them go electric, double track, and denied the SPSF merger twice. so really, this proves in the worst way that it could be proved that big government isnt a good thing

[rockguitarist946]

they are, those engines were built in the 50's

[FitzNS]

Although alot of them are patched I still see a fair amount of SP painted power running on the joint line their are usually three or four in the yard here

[vigo894]

I know what you mean. Here in Texas, I miss seeing and hearing the old locomotives of the Texas-Mexican Railway. Now, the line belongs to KCS.

[silicon212]

There's not much SP painted power remaining - even patched - it's mostly been painted into UP colors by now. However, there are a few unpatched SP units still running around, including GP60 9721 and GP40-2M (MK rebuild) 7137.

[silicon212]

I miss those old tunnel motors!

[silicon212]

Naturally aspirated 567s!

[Illifornia2000]

great video. I admit that I wish this could've been made in the 1970s-80s, the peak years for the SP, it's lumber trains and railfanning, but since the mergers up to today, the magic is gone. the mergers, even bankrupt railroad take the fun out of it. SP (and all other fallen flags) lives forever.

[DeltaPhi79]

2:11. Those look and sound really old...