Western Railroad Discussion > A rare one for Flare Friday

I caught this ex. SP unit at Helper, Utah this past Monday; Memorial Day. I think it is a GP40P-2 originally built for comuter service in the Bay Area. It is coupled to a pair of SD40N's that are usually used for Dirt Train power.

Dick
Roosevelt, Utah

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Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Hauling passengers to now hauling dirt. The shame, never happened we know of to PAs.

No comments about the quality of some passengers, though.

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2ebright Wrote:
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> I caught this ex. SP unit at Helper, Utah this
> past Monday; Memorial Day. I think it is a GP40P-2
> originally built for comuter service in the Bay
> Area. It is coupled to a pair of SD40N's that are
> usually used for Dirt Train power.
>
> Dick
> Roosevelt, Utah


Yes, that's one of the three EMD GP40P-2s originally delivered for Peninsula commute service.  These three ultimately spelled the end for the last operating Fairbanks-Morse H24-66 Train Masters.

UP 1373, ex SP 7601, nee SP 3198
b/n 74619-2
blt. Nov-74

Rob 
 

At least this one is still around unlike the PAs

Regards, Jim Evans

Because of its unique status and history, the unit deserves a preservation effort and eventual restoration. SP 6051, CSRM's E9, and SP 5623, PLA's "Torpedo Boat" GP9, are otherwise the sole surviving preserved, restored, and operational SP passenger diesels. Regrettably, no other E-units, no PAs, no FP7s, and no Train Masters made it.

~ BZ

No SP SDP45's remain either, IIRC.

fbe Wrote:
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> Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Hauling passengers
> to now hauling dirt.

Being re-painted UP is shame enough ;-)  But for the first 6 months of its career, it and the other 2 GP40P-2s spent the majority of their time hauling freight between Portland and Roseville

Elizabeth

Here it is on the Salina KS-Junction City KS local at Abilene KS and Solomon KS respectively back around 2008.

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FiveChime Wrote:
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> At least this one is still around unlike the PAs
>
> Regards, Jim Evans

Not entirely true, , , Doyle's PA in Portland
looks like a million $ and could be pulling on short notice.
Plus the Napa Valley Wine Train's Canadian built.

Larry Dodgion
Wilsonville, OR

fbe Wrote:
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> Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Hauling passengers
> to now hauling dirt. The shame, never happened we
> know of to PAs.
>
> No comments about the quality of some passengers,
> though.
>
At least it's good for something -- today...