Nostalgia & History > When UP ran tunnel motors

I was lucky enough to capture a new ES44AC with a SD40T-2 (former SP), SD40T-2 DRGW and a UP SD40-2 all in one lashup in the spring time.

Best,

Santi

Santi:
Thanks for posting.  I too saw the UP making use of their inherited tunnel motors.  Sort of.
Here is the 2826 as the local power at Aransas Pass, on the Rockport Branch on the Texas gulf coast south of San Antonio in June of 2004
It is about 1000 miles from the closest tunnel.
But rest assured the UP has a plan.....
Actually it was a fun day.  I had a brief chat with the crew, and we had friends in common even though I had left the SP and Texas 17 years earlier.



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Here's one in New Haven (Fort Wayne) Indiana of all places.  Date: 10/2000

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Driving home from work the other day, I saw a tunnel motor banging cars around the West Colton one spot facility.  Was weeping all the way home.   

CajonRat Wrote:
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> Driving home from work the other day, I saw a
> tunnel motor banging cars around the West Colton
> one spot facility.  Was weeping all the way
> home.   

Huh??  It had to ba a GP15-1 (4-axle unit), right?  Aren't all the 6-axle units long gone?

Mark

There's one switching the Cargill facility in Devore, but I have not heard of any tunnel motor at West Colton.

Right - I think the leased unit at Cargill is the only one left in Southern California.  Originally SP 8274.

Mark



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Stone Lake WI - UP 8634



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There is (or was) one that I found in Arkansas on th active roster a few months back. No idea of what the number was.

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mwbridgwater Wrote:

> Huh??  It had to ba a GP15-1 (4-axle unit),
> right?  Aren't all the 6-axle units long gone?
>
> Mark

Could've been, I was on Slover and could not see the trucks because of the fence.