Nostalgia & History > F3P: WP 1 in passenger scheme

1. @ Oakland 4/17/60 by Alan Miller
2. @ Salt Lake City 8/75 by Matt Herson Alan Miller collection
3.  @ Oakland 12/17/60 by Alan Miller

info from Alan Miller, including that only No 1. is in passenger livery
 



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/17 10:51 by valmont.

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>info from Alan Miller, including that only No 1. is in passenger livery

A more correct way of putting it is that No1 is a WP passenger diesel locomotive, the marks of which are the stainless steel sides and the silver trucks. Upon discontiuance of passenger service, these locomotives were essentially unchanged from the day they were new. All the others (black trucks) are either freight or what the WP used to call "dual service", meaning "freight or passenger". It one had no steam line, it could be used leading but not behind operative steam generators.

Well sort of..... not sure the FTs kept their steam lines till the end, but the freight Fs had pass through steam lines and a steam gen in the "B" suffix unit so any one of them could be in front or behind the steam gen.

Another way to distinguish WP passenger Fs from freight is that passenger locos had red wings on the nose, while freight Fs had two black stripes.  Some passenger Fs were later used in freight service without repainting though.

And I don't think pic #2 can be 1975, since in the book Western Pacific's Diesel Years it states that 909D was traded in to EMD in March 1967 for GP40 3516.

Hope this helps,



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/28/17 08:43 by tgibson.