Western Railroad Discussion > The Origin of the first Green Goat

Back in August of 2000 a fiend and I were on a week long railfan trip from Alberta to the west coast via Montana, Idaho and WA. Upon arrival in Seattle, we swung by the BNSF Balmer Yard and found SRY GP9 #2890. The unit was waiting to be shipped north to the shops of the Southern Railway of British Coluumbia, where it would be converted into GGS2000D #2001, the prototype Green Goat Hybrid locomotive. A few days later, we found the same unit in BC Rail's North Vancouver BC yard, awaiting transfer to the SRY.

-Trevor

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That poor port SP loco

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SP sold the unit to Willamette Valley Railroad before it went North.

Mike Root
Madras, OR

They probably beat it to hell before that!

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As bad as it looks there, it could probably STILL do more work in a week than a Green Goat could do in a month......

I photographed the 2890 many, many times when it was still on the SP. It seemed to pop up wherever I was.

At Richmond, CA, Oct 1979. At least the slide was marked as Richmond - I don't remember taking too many pictures there.

Jim B

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