Nostalgia & History > A little history in Industry

I shot these on Father's Day this year out banging around City of Industry. These locomotives were sitting on a siding on the west end of the yard, a fuel truck showed up about 10 minutes after I took these and proceeded to go to work. I included the history of each loco in the consist I have or could find through various roster websites.

1. GP38-2 - UP 763 built for the CRI&P as the 4325 in Oct. '76, then becomes the MoPac 2263.
2. GP38AC - UP 1783 built for the IC as the 9500 in Feb. '70, then becomes the ICG 9500, then MKT 325.
3. GP38-3 - UP 1016 I can find very little history on this one other than it was built in June '71.

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4. GP40-2 - UP 1404 built for the SSW in Jan. '79. It's not wearing the number here but is listed as the UP 1404.
5. GP38 - LLPX 2601 would like to know the history of this loco, I don't have it recorded yet.
6. GP60 - UP 2043 was built as the SP 9744 in June of '91.

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7. The lineup, I am looking back towards the yard east of me.

Thanks for looking.

--espee4ever

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LLPX #2601 was built by LLP as a GP-38-2 demonstrator, to show how one could be built reasonably from a GP-38 unit. It was built from LLPX #2027, which used to be CSX # 2143, which used to be an old L&N unit, from the 4000 series.

GP30Frank Wrote:
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> LLPX #2601 was built by LLP as a GP-38-2
> demonstrator, to show how one could be built
> reasonably from a GP-38 unit. It was built from
> LLPX #2027, which used to be CSX # 2143, which
> used to be an old L&N unit, from the 4000 series.


Thank you, I had done a bit of a search and could not find the missing link.

Espee4Ever Wrote:
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> 3. GP38-3 - UP 1016 I can find very little history
> on this one other than it was built in June '71.

From Don Strack's web site at:

http://utahrails.net/all-time/modern-index.php

B&O 4039 to CSXT 6614 to UP 2516 to UP 1016.

That GP60 just doesn't look right in UP colors. Damn the UP!!!

Must they ALL have some kind of graffiti?

>>MC>> even ugly UP yellow should be shown w/o the proud work of amateur idiotic artists

ESPEEFAN Wrote:
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> That GP60 just doesn't look right in UP colors.
> Damn the UP!!!


You are correct about that my friend. That GP60 was made for SP colors. The UP scheme doesn't do it for me either.

--espee4ever

>>Must they ALL have some kind of graffiti? <<

The last 3 all have pretty similar graffiti -- looks pretty fresh.

Get your pics now of untagged locomotives ... :^( Pretty soon it won't be cost-effective to keep repainting them.

Ted in Davis

gobbl3gook Wrote:
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> >>Must they ALL have some kind of graffiti? <<
>
> The last 3 all have pretty similar graffiti --
> looks pretty fresh.
>
> Get your pics now of untagged locomotives ... :^(
> Pretty soon it won't be cost-effective to keep
> repainting them.
>
> Ted in Davis

In So. Cal. if you let your car sit in one place too long, it gets a new paint job by the taggers.

--espee4ever