Enjoy this section on the SP's racetrack Peninsula and look to our website for the full DVD - as well as many other great productions at www.cspmovies.com
See the SP “commutes” on the Peninsula in late steam and early diesel days. Visit the old Third & Townsend Station where the SP Coastline really begins. Don’t miss the FM Train Master era, including the smaller FM H-12-44 switchers in various San Francisco Peninsula yards - such as the extinct Bay Shore Yard.
Learn the mechanical details of the FM opposed-piston diesel engines with animated cut-away graphics. The old 1920 Harriman type commuter coaches and the first bi-level are seen behind passenger GP9s, SD-9s and FM trainmasters. Newer power includes the powerful SDP45 machines and the smaller GP40Ps - even in 1976 Bi-Centennial colors!
We bring lots of old ALCO, Baldwin, FM and early EMD power. And, we have that on vintage film.
Also, we bring more freight action on the Eastbay side and visit the old W. Oakland Yard. See the ALCO switchers and older EMD switchers work the yard alongside the heavy road locomotives at the sand tower. Ride former SP passenger GP9 5623 down Oakland streets switching freight for the Oakland Terminal Railway, on former Key System tracks.