Nostalgia & History > The "Other" ATSF 2900

For those of us who followed the latter day Santa Fe, we all knew that ATSF 2900 was a GP35u. But on April 21, 1992 I caught the "other" ATSF 2900" at Riverbank CA. I found it only fitting that ATSF 2900, a Ford tractor, should be assigned to the Central Valley.

If only the locomotive wearing the same number had been there that day too. I checked my scanned colleciton of slides and the closest I could find was the 2898 near Pinole CA on February 15, 1988. Of course, I have thousands of ATSF slides I haven't scanned yet so ... who knows?

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CrudPunko Wrote:
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> For those of us who followed the latter day Santa
> Fe, we all knew that ATSF 2900 was a GP35u. But on
> April 21, 1992 I caught the "other" ATSF 2900" at
> Riverbank CA. I found it only fitting that ATSF
> 2900, a Ford tractor, should be assigned to the
> Central Valley.
>
> If only the locomotive wearing the same number had
> been there that day too. I checked my scanned
> colleciton of slides and the closest I could find
> was the 2898 near Pinole CA on February 15, 1988.
> Of course, I have thousands of ATSF slides I
> haven't scanned yet so ... who knows?

That's the East end of Gately for the 2898.

J.