Woodshire Railroad - outdoor 3-rail O, (WA)

Photos (22)

The Southern Pacific Sunset Limited has a long and storied past beginning in 1894. These photos depict only the brief period between 1950 and 1953.

Shown in this photo album is a shortened 10 car depiction of an actual Budd Company 15 car stainless steel passenger consist from the newly introduced, streamlined SP Sunset Limited. It operated sometime between 1950 and 1953. We say 1950 to 1953 because that is the only period during which both steam and diesel were simultaneously operating on the route.

Photo 2 depicts an SP Daylight 4-8-4 GS-4, working between El Paso and LA while photo 3 shows three newly introduced ALCO PAs traveling between El Paso and New Orleans. The GS-4s from El Paso to LA would soon be replaced by EMD E-7 ABBs in the Daylight red and orange colors.

These highly accurate O scale, all aluminum passenger car models were produced by Scott Mann’s Golden Gate Depot. The cars displayed below are the eight car set plus an extra sleeper and coach. The full prototypical set has two more coaches and three more 10-6 sleepers.