information page for SP, SSW and ex T&NO EMD GP9, GP9E and GP9R diesel locomotives

Sold to JPBX, to MVPX.

Starting in 1970 with #3424 all existing GP9's were rebuilt into GP9E's and GP9R's. see the SP GP9 Overview for Magazine/Book References and available models.

Note 5: Renumbered upon cycling through the GP9E program in 1975. Information for this chart was gathered from a number of sources including the "S.P. project M-113 1965 renumbering guide" and various issues of the Southern Pacific Motive Power Annual by Joseph A. Strapac.

This article is a list of Southern Pacific's GP9E and GP9R locomotives that were operated by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company. All of them have been placed in order of their numbers of when they were rebuilt between December 1979 and December 1985.

information page for SP, SSW and T&NO EMD GP9, GP9E and GP9P passenger diesel locomotives

The Southern Pacific GP9E and GP9R are rebuilds from EMD GP9 diesel locomotives that were built by General-Motors Electro-Motive Division for the St. Louis Southwestern Railway (also known as the "Cotton Belt Route") and the Southern Pacific Transportation Company.

Southern Pacific (SP) GP9E leads fellow weekend warrior SDP45 3204 over Dry Creek, in Roseville, CA on a not so dry Saturday, February 23, 1980. This was posted to Altamont Press on June 10, 2014. Photo of SP 3191 in Roseville, CA

Southern Pacific GP9E's of the Northwest. The goal here is the same as with the SD9E's. Read the top of the SD9e Page. Photos by Mike Clark, Jeff Pape, Rolland Rodway, and Gene McKinley, Larry Tuttle, Jack Taylor. click on the unit number to see the big photo.

Setting at the Louisville & Indiana RR yard, SP heritage so I uploaded this picture to this album, but must be owned by Trans Dynamics on this date.