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Former host Richard Percy wrote the essence of this statement prior to 2016
No website can be a complete history, nor can it contain everything there is to know about a railroad whose history spanned 143years.
In fact there is no one place in the world that holds this information.
This website's original manifesto was aimed at the modeler. It drifted into more prototype information, either as information was contributed or has research was required to answer a question.
For a list of books dealing with the various forms of Southern Pacific as a corporation and its various railroads, visit the Resources page of the Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society.
For those people interested in reading more about the history of the Southern Pacific, these three books will get you started:
Basic history
Deeper history
Complex history
The Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society publishes a quarterly magazine.
While copies may be purchased at some model train stores, it is included in the cost of membership to the Society.
For a timeline of the Southern Pacific Company, please see Pacific RailNews issue 396 from November 1996.
My Plans for this Website
1. As of December 2023, I am focused on keeping this website going. That is, I pay the annual hosting fee and keep the website online. Monetary donations are appreciated at the end of each year.|
This document prepared and maintained by Chris and David Coscia
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