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Title: SP 9142 near Capitan, California
Date: 1976 - 02

Title: Burro Crane Being Used to Offload Ties at Spofford, Texas
Date: 1984-01
Description: A photograph of a burro crane offloading ties on a train track in Spofford, Texas taken by Mike McGinley.

Title: SP 2478, the Lead Locomotive For a Trailing Freight Train and a Southern Pacific Motor Car Meet at Dominguez Jct., California
Date: 1978 - 11

Title: Joint Southern Pacific and Cotton Belt Station Building at Plano, Texas
Date: 1980 -12

Title: Southern Pacific - Cotton Belt Interchange Tracks at Corsicana, Texas
Date: 1983 - 08

Title: SSW 7961 at Randolph Field, Texas
Date: 1983 - 11

Title: Setting Molds for a Boutet Weld on Mainline Track East of Ferrum, California
Date: 1976 - 06

Title: Loading a Derailed Boxcar at Flatonia, Texas
Date: 1974
Description: This photograph depicts an aspect of the activity conducted by Southern Pacific employees and contractors after the derailment of a Southern Pacific train. The reopening of a mainline or branch mainline was paramount after such an event.

Title: SP 9242 E LAHOT Roaring by Tower 3 at Flatonia, Texas
Date: 1983 - 11
Description: A Southern Pacific track construction crew is standing in the clear, waiting to resume work to replace the existing crossing diamond and to install other trackage which is a part of the project.

Title: Removal of the Former Southern Pacific Hempstead - Austin Branch Line East of Giddings, Texas
Date: 1982 - 01 - 06
Description: Removal of track, other track material, and ties from the former Southern Pacific Hempstead - Austin branch line at east of Giddings, Texas.

Title: Southern Pacific Conductor Reaching for Train Orders at Flatonia, Texas While Train is Moving
Date: 1983 - 11

Title: Amtrak Train Operating Over Newly Installed Crossing Diamonds at Tower 105 in San Antonio, Texas
Date: 1974, 1975
Description: A photograph of an Amtrak train operating over newly installed crossing diamonds at Tower 105 in San Antonio, Texas. Southern Pacific's construction crew is waiting in the clear so it can return to work after the train has passed through the area. The photograph was taken by Mike McGinley.

Title: Southern Pacific Yard at Yoakum, Texas
Date: 1983 - 07
Description: Depicted is the west end of the Southern Pacific yard at Yoakum, Texas.

Title: Southern Pacific Train and Inspection Car Meet on Southern Pacific's Globe, Arizona Branch
Date: 1974
Description: A local Southern Pacific train and inspection car meet on Southern Pacific's Globe Branch.

Title: Southern Pacific Track Construction Near Eagle Pass, Texas
Date: 1981 - 06

Title: Southern Pacific Undercutter and Its Maintenance-Of-Way Crew at Indio, California
Date: 1978 - 10
Description: Maintenance of the ballast layer directly below the ties is an essential part of a healthy track structure, as ballast degrades over time and becomes increasingly fouled reducing its ability to drain, provide adequate load bearing support, and withstand vertical, lateral, and longitudinal forces. Southern Pacific used specially trained crews who operated undercutter equipment to restore ballast that had become fouled. The excavated material could either be fully discarded or screened and returned to the track, with only the finer parts of the ballast not being recycled.

Title: Southern Pacific Tie Gang Working with a Scarifier Inserter on the San Antonio Division
Date: 1975 - 03
Description: Southern Pacific tie gang working with a scarifier inserter on the San Antonio Division. This mechanical device dramatically sped-up the removal of existing ties and insertion of new ties in their place.

Title: Work Train SP 6646 Capturing Scrap Metal Generated from Track Maintenance Activities
Date: 1984 - 04
Description: Scrap metal of this nature would be transported to facilities where it could be recycled.

Title: Southern Pacific Switch Engines 2725 and 2722 at San Antonio, Texas
Date: 1981 - 11
Description: Southern Pacific switch engines 2725 and 2722 at work in Southern Pacific's East Yard in San Antonio.

Title: Southern Pacific and Cotton Belt Station Buildings at Corsicana, Texas
Date: 1980 - 10
Description: Depicted are the new station building and the former station building undergoing removal at Corsicana, Texas.

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