Albany & Eastern #5129 is a 50-foot 5347 cubic foot boxcar, one of 300 built by the FMC Corporation for the Green Bay & Western in December 1979 and January 1980 in the 16000-16299 series. Cars 16100-16149 went to the Northwestern Oklahoma Railroad (NOKL) around 1993, and later became AERC 5100-5147. This car still wears its original yellow paint, with the “Green Bay Route” logo changed to read “Santiam River Route.”
Southern Pacific #4716 is a C-50-9 Class Bay-Window Caboose that was built by PACCAR in 1980 as part of an order of 75 that would be Southern Pacific’s last new cabooses.
The Southern Pacific was merged into the Union Pacific in 1996.
This caboose was no longer on Union Pacific’s roster in January 2002.
TTX Boxcar TBOX #666396 is a 60-foot boxcar built in 2004 by National Steel Car of Hamilton, Ontario.
This boxcar was on jacks while work was being done on its trucks, which were disassembled nearby.
Albany & Eastern #3859 was built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in February 1959 as 1,750-horsepower GP9 #456 for the Texas & New Orleans, a subsidiary of Southern Pacific.
After the 1965 system renumbering, it became Southern Pacific #3660.
On January 9, 1978, it was upgraded by Southern Pacific’s Sacramento Shops as GP9R #3859.
It was retired on February 20, 1991, and was sold on February 5, 1992 to the Willamette Valley Railway.
It was later leased to the Albany & Eastern, which purchased it in 1999.
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