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Owner: Southern Pacific
Model:Rebuilt EMD SD40RBuilt As:SP 8479 (SD40)
Serial Number:33671Order No:7083
Frame Number:7083-1Built:4/1968
Notes:ex-SP 8479 - rebuilt 01/81 (1984 Olympics paint)
Other locos with this serial:  SP 7347(SD40R)
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SP SD40R 7347
Title:  SP SD40R 7347
Description:  ex-SP SD40 8479, pooled on UP
Photo Date:  6/3/1982  Upload Date: 4/4/2022 11:25:27 AM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Brian Ambrose
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7347(SD40R)
Views:  289   Comments: 1
SP 7347
Title:  SP 7347
Description:  Two SD40s and two SD9s ease into the helper pocket at Bena to await an eastbound that needs their assistance. SP 7347 was originally SP 8479, was later repainted into a special scheme to commemorate the 1984 Olympics held in Los Angeles, and was destroyed in a wreck at Westminster, CO on 8/2/85. Date of photo approximate, month and year are correct.
Photo Date:  11/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/27/2009 5:04:22 PM
Location:  Bena, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7347(SD40R)
Views:  1914   Comments: 2
Southern Pacific "Olympic" unit heads for LAUPT
Title:  Southern Pacific "Olympic" unit heads for LAUPT
Description:  "Olympic" SP SD40R #7347 heads east through the cut in Santa Susana Pass in Chatsworth to Los Angeles to take part in the festivities at Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal in 1984
Photo Date:  5/10/1984  Upload Date: 8/11/2006 3:37:52 PM
Location:  Chatsworth, CA
Author:  Herb Iske
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7347(SD40R)
Views:  2082   Comments: 2
SP 7347
Title:  SP 7347
Description:  SP 7347 makes a stop at LAUPT a few months prior to the start of the 1984 Summer games in Los Angeles.
Photo Date:  5/14/1984  Upload Date: 9/29/2023 1:47:16 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7347(SD40R)
Views:  278   Comments: 0
SP 7347
Title:  SP 7347
Description:  the Southern Pacific Railroad was an official sponsor of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California. As such, they promoted the Games with a special paint scheme applied to SD40R 7347 (the former SD40 8479) and a fleet of 45 "Golden Pig" highway trailers. This colorful engine was assigned as a helper, along with red and orange SD40R 7342 (ex-SD40 8470), in southern California when former Southern Pacific "Daylight" 4-8-4 4449 was heading west on its way back from New Orleans, Louisiana, where the 1984 Worlds Fair was taking place. The two engines are seen in Loma Linda after cutting off the "Worlds Fair Daylight" had completed its crossing of nearby Beaumont Hill on June 17th, 1984. Note the gold-painted P-3 air horn and the "1932" and 1984" numberboards, which commemorated not only the 1984 Olympics, but also the Games other occurrence in Los Angeles in 1932.
Photo Date:  6/17/1984  Upload Date: 5/4/2012 5:01:31 PM
Location:  Loma Linda, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 7347(SD40R) SP 7342(SD40R)
Views:  5971   Comments: 4
SP 7347
Title:  SP 7347
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1993  Upload Date: 3/3/2006 10:36:08 AM
Location:  San Diego, CA
Author:  chad thomas
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7347(SD40R)
Views:  1865   Comments: 1
olympic
Title:  olympic
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1995  Upload Date: 3/2/2006 5:32:57 PM
Location:  Oakland, CA
Author:  chad thomas
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7347(SD40R)
Views:  1528   Comments: 1


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