Friday, October 17, 2014

Southern Pacific Black Widows plus a Geep


A pair of F7A's in the original Black Widow livery and a GP 35 in blood nose livery with a freight train in Nevada, see comments.

2 comments:

ChrisW said...

Nope, not California but central Nevada between Elko and Carlin. The water in the Humbolt river is the giveaway. This is the SP-WP paired trackage here. On enlargement the trailing unit number is #8833 an SD45.

regards
ChrisW

ChrisW said...

More on this, here are the Co-Ords for google maps. 40.719827,-116.012363
The Photographer was Robert Malinoski, the picture date is Sept 12,1967 and was publishing on pg129 of Jennison/Neves book Southern Pacific Sacramento Division by White River Productions.
Note that the highway on the left is the pre I-80.

ChrisW