From its original "City" train E2s in the 1930s to the end of SP passenger service in 1971, SP operated a significant fleet of the sleek EMD passenger diesels. Here's the last surviving one, E9 #6051, on display next to the old Central Pacific depot at Sacramento, Calif.

The unit, now part of the collection of the California State Railroad Museum, is teamed with a diner and a lounge from the 1950 Budd-built "Sunset Limited" fleet. Both cars, which SP had retained for business train use in 1971, now wear the orange and red "Daylight" colors long associated with SP passenger trains.

Photographed by Thomas McCann, June 12, 2001.
Added to the photo archive by Thomas McCann, November 17, 2006.
Railroad: California State Railroad Museum.

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