Southern Pacific (SP 9010) Krauss Maffei ML4000 C'C' Departing Niles

Niles Canyon Railway's beautifully restored (and very unique) Southern Pacific 9010 Krauss Maffei ML4000 departing Niles, CA. Built in Germany in 1964, these Diesel-Hydraulic locomotives had a short career with SP, retiring in 1968.
From the NCRY: This all-Southern Pacific consist was assembled to celebrate the last time a Krauss Maffei operated over these rails -- an excursion on April 30, 1967 behind KM Number 9120, and the only passenger operation by a German diesel-hydraulic while in SP service.
The consist behind our star Krauss-Maffei starts with SP 5623, an EMD model GP9 which served most famously as a San Francisco Bay Area Commute engine, purchased for service on the "Del Monte" and seeing occasional duty on "Coast Daylight" passenger trains. Rescued and restored in the mid-1990s by Howard Wise and the late Errol Ohman, the Geep is providing power while SP 9010's cab controls are in charge.
Following is the Niles Canyon Railway's Snack Car, the former SP 6719, an "Economy Baggage" Car built in 1962 by Pacific Car & Foundry. It's the only car of dozens of this type surviving that's been restored to as-built paint scheme appearance, contemporary with SP 9010.
And at the rear, SP 2473-2474, one of SP's unique Articulated Chair Cars, built in 1941 for the "Daylight" and sharing the same May birthday as SP 4449, the preserved GS-4 steam locomotive. This car also reflects the external appearance of SP passenger trains in service during SP 9010's tenure with SP. It was also the first coach in a special 1968 excursion train with the KM's "competition," the diesel-hydraulic Alco DH-643 SP 9151; that was a year after the SP 9120 operation, in May of 1968, and was co-sponsored by our own Pacific Locomotive Association.
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