SP steam survivor

SP steam survivor

By Angela Cotey | May 25, 2023

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Southern Pacific 2-8-0 3406 works mixed train No. 1 on the Nacozari Railroad between Douglas, Ariz., and Nacozari, Mexico, in spring 1958. Steam lasted on the SP subsidiary until January 1959, two years after diesels took over the rest of the SP system.
Donald Duke photo

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