Southern Pacific Steam Since 1890 45 Mins #SRP-SP $39.95 John Kirkland spent the better part of a lifetime to capture every single wheel arrangement used by the Southern Pacific from 1890 onwards - all but two of them in actual operation. Switchers to articulateds, both cab forward and cab in back. Moguls to Mountains, 4-10-2s, Santa Fes, Pacifics and 4-8-4s galore: in Daylight orange, in black, with skirts and without. He ranged across the far flung S.P. empire: from Alamogordo, New Mexico to Niles Canyon in the Bay area, from Beaumont Hill in southern California to Dunsmuir on Mt. Shasta, from San Jose to Soledad, even the remote Alturas Line from Klamath Falls, Oregon to Fernley, Nevada where cab-forwards pulled and huge 2-8-8-4s, cab in back, pushed. Many interesting details are covered. He shows you a trans-bay express and explains how they operated. He was there for the final hours of ‘Big Steam’ when 4-8-4s and 4-8-2s were brought in from all over the system (including the Cotton Belt) to power the daily commuter parade from San Francisco to San Jose. Includes the last scheduled steam move on the S.P.; a 4-10-2 from Medford, Oregon. A veritable feast of S.P. steam of every description. Color back