Western Railroad Discussion > UP Nampa, Idaho Yard - Old Engines Today

Drove out to the UP Nampa yard this afternoon to see what was stirring.
Not much except a long apparently empty grainer pulling out eastbound as I arrived.
The yard was pretty empty.
But, I did find these two old engines sitting all alone at the west end of the yard.
#9237 is an old C40-8 that appears to have been repainted and perhaps overhauled?
I found photos on another site (starts with "RR") from 2006 and it looked pretty beat up back then.
Probably benefitted from UP's power shortage because there's not a single engine sitting in the dead line in Nampa now.
I think I remember this unit sitting in the two mile-long dead lines a few years ago in Nampa.
Also found #351 sitting nearby.
The cab lettering says it's a GP-38 2L ~ what's that?

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That ex-MOP 4 stack, non-db unit is pretty cool, remember seeing those in the South in the
early eighties.

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GP38-2L
"L" "Liberated" (?) Referring to the exhaust system. (4 stacks instead of 2)

dash944cw Wrote:
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> GP38-2L
> "L" "Liberated" (?) Referring to the exhaust
> system. (4 stacks instead of 2)


"L" = Lease

How does the lease situation work?
Who is leasing it ~ UP?

The MOP tried that 4 stack exhaust on lots of engines going back as far as GP-7's and most of them pumped oil bad because of no back pressure. You would find oil all over them.

philhoov Wrote:
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> I found photos on another site (starts with "RR")

Is this the one?
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/

philhoov Wrote:
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> How does the lease situation work?
> Who is leasing it ~ UP?

UP 351 is owned by Helm, and is on it's way to Motive Power in Boise, ID to become a maroon colored HLCX unit numbered in the 1800s. It is in a long term lease to the UP.

Yes, that's the site.
Didn't think it was allowed to mention it on TO?

Interesting how the fuel tank has a big ding in it.
Wonder how that happened?