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Nostalgia & History > A GE Daylight paint rebuild in StocktonDate: 07/27/14 14:11 A GE Daylight paint rebuild in Stockton Author: lamta_jay From the camera of Lee Meyers
March 12, 1978 Stockton California Sorry it is not leading but nice shot anyway Thanks for the look...See you down the tracks Jay  Date: 07/27/14 15:18 Re: A GE Daylight paint rebuild in Stockton Author: DynamicBrake Popsicles on a stick. Don't know the number of the flare, but I like it. Thanks for sharing.
Kent in CArmel Valley Date: 07/27/14 15:24 Re: A GE Daylight paint rebuild in Stockton Author: PERichardson I guess Lee and I were trackside at the same time although don't recall seeing anyone else, although I just noticed there are a couple of people down the track aways. Here's the same train, 7032E passing Stockton Tower.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/27/14 16:00 by masterphots.    Date: 07/27/14 17:48 Re: A GE Daylight paint rebuild in Stockton Author: PHall Ah yes, the Popsicles! From what I understand, if you could keep them running they weren't bad.
You just had to keep them running... Date: 07/27/14 21:01 Re: A GE Daylight paint rebuild in Stockton Author: railstiesballast IIRC they were GE bodies but equipped with German Sultzer (sp?) engines as a test.
Date: 07/27/14 21:06 Re: A GE Daylight paint rebuild in Stockton Author: Xtra276West railstiesballast Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > IIRC they were GE bodies but equipped with German > Sultzer (sp?) engines as a test. 'Sulzer', IIRC. Pat from Littleton, CO. Date: 07/27/14 21:09 Re: A GE Daylight paint rebuild in Stockton Author: ExSPCondr They were four former GE U-25Bs with a 2800 HP SULZER, which I believe was a Swede? They were marine engines, and had horrible problems with diesel fuel diluting the lube oil, and only ran a couple of years. They were scrapped in the East Bay just over a year ago.
G Date: 07/27/14 22:08 Re: A GE Daylight paint rebuild in Stockton Author: PHall ExSPCondr Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > They were four former GE U-25Bs with a 2800 HP > SULZER, which I believe was a Swede? They were > marine engines, and had horrible problems with > diesel fuel diluting the lube oil, and only ran a > couple of years. They were scrapped in the East > Bay just over a year ago. > G After not turning a wheel in over 10 years. Date: 07/27/14 22:42 Re: A GE Daylight paint rebuild in Stockton Author: GRNDMND And two months after you gents shot them in Stockton, the same dynamic duo was sitting in City of Industry waiting for their next train out, on May 10, 1978. I don't think the same trailing units were lashed with these two, but I honestly don't remember. That doesn't look like a SD45 behind the 7031 in my shot.
KC  Date: 07/27/14 23:04 Re: A GE Daylight paint rebuild in Stockton Author: DNRY122 I have a recollection of seeing them in Soledad Canyon (north of Los Angeles, where the Metrolink Antelope Valley Line runs now). The road was on one side of the canyon, the tracks were on the other, and in the creekbed between us, a man was training a pair of elephants.
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