Southern Pacific No. 10

Southern Pacific No. 10 (also known as SP-10) was the sole example of Southern Pacific's Budd Rail Diesel Car (RDC) that was built by the Budd Company for the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1954.
== History ==
Southern Pacific No. 10 was constructed in 1954 by the Budd Company and it was the sole example of a Budd Rail Diesel Car (RDC) that was purchased by the Southern Pacific Railroad, and it had arrived on the Southern Pacific Railroad that same year in 1954.
The car could reach a speed of 85 mph (137 km/h), it was 85ft (25.91 m) long and had a power output of 550 hp (410 kW).
No. 10 had started work on the low-traffic route between Oakland and Sacramento, California. In 1959, Southern Pacific had transferred the car to subsidiary Northwestern Pacific, where it served there until Amtrak had assumed passenger duties in 1971. SP-10 had been a feature and candidate of the Galveston Railroad Museum since 1983 and was occasionally used for excursion services until mechanical issues had caused it to be taken out of service in the 2000s.
Before the museum could complete a round of extensive repairs that began in 2007, Hurricane Ike had flooded the museum grounds with more than eight feet of water and had rendered the railcar inoperable. By 2016, the railcar departed Gavelston; having been sold to the Southern Pacific Railroad History Center.
It was last photographed in 2019 and it is still around to this very day.
== Gallery ==
File:NWP Redwood meeting freight at Dos Rios, January 31, 1971.jpg|The southbound Redwood meeting a freight train at Dos Rios in January 1971.
File:Southern Pacific RDC at Willits, California, August 1966.jpg|SP-10 at Willits, California in August 1966.
== External links ==
* https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/23-sp-rdc-10/
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