Southern Pacific F7A Info page - Railfan
All F3's were delivered in Black Widow paint, those surviving after 1958 'may' have been painted in 'Blood Nose' paint. Prior to the introduction of 'Blood Nose' paint, there was experimentation with a black and orange scheme, known colloquially as 'Halloween'. 6371 demonstrates one variation of Halloween paint. see Halloween paint for further ...
Black Widow Paint Scheme Question... - Trains.com
2008年7月4日 · Not that Hollywood pays a whole lot of attention to details, but in the movie Bad Day At Black Rock, Spencer Tracy rides into town on a train with Day Light cars being pulled by a Southern Pacific F-7 A&B black widow which was supposed …
What DID the "black widow" Southern Pacific F7's pull?
2014年6月21日 · The passenger variants of freight locomotives such as the FP7 and GP7/9 were originally in black widow until changed to red/ Grey along with all other diesel units and at that moment, most daylight train consist were changed from the daylight scheme to …
Re: Southern Pacific " Black widow " F7 #6386 A + B Unit in …
2015年9月18日 · Southern Pacific railway agreed to run the train to Lone Pine for $5,500 and the cost of 265 round-trip passenger tickets. According to Sturges, the train had to be run backwards––light cars first, engine in the rear––and slowly, due to concerns about some old bridges, taking about 18 hours to get there from the city.
SP Black widow passenger units-What did they pull?
The Black Widow's pulling passenger trains were FP7's, about 4' longer and boiler equipped. The FP7's eventually wound up pulling just about every SP passenger train. IIRC, they were intially assigned to overnight service between LA and San Francisco.
Southern Pacific Passenger question. - Model Railroader …
2006年6月23日 · The Black widow scheme was ended in 1959 when the Cotton Belt GP9's were delivered in Gray and Red, but many units were not repainted until the mid 1960's. The paint scheme started in 1947 with the first F3ABBA sets and continued with future SD7's and SD9's.
S.P. paint schemes - Model Train Forum
2015年11月17日 · Does anyone know exactly what year Southern Pacific switched over from the Black Widow to the Bloody Nose paint schemes. I think it was in the late sixties but I'm just guessing. Maybe the date you're looking for is in here. It has the history of SP pretty well covered. Thanks Don, lot of great info on the S.P. website. I learned a lot off of it.
Southern Pacific/Cotton Belt/Texas and New Orleans F-Unit Index …
Beginning in 1949, SP began to receive 120 of the new EMD F7 model, from June 1949 thru October 1949, delivered in ABBA sets and numbered 6140A,B,C,D - 6169A,B,C,D. In December of 1949 SP decided the alpha suffixes had to go, and so a general renumbering of all system F units took place.
Southern Pacific F3A/B Info page - Railfan
Placed in Classes DEF-1 and DEF-2, (later DF-1 and DF-2) deliveries continued until February of 1949 when superseded by EMD's F7 model. All were delivered in 4 unit ABBA sets painted in Black Widow paint. Southern Pacific originally numbered F units in sets of four, with one number and an alpha suffix.
Southern Pacific Railroad: Black widow Paint scheme - Blogger
2010年10月13日 · I have a little problem believing that this is an SP Black Widow F7, firstly there is no second headlight below the headlight in the nose, also SP F7s didn't have ditch lights, the mars lights were suppose to be used to see the sides of the tracks whereas the beam headlights were to see up ahead.