Nostalgia & History > Chuck Vercelli: SP GP9 with dynamics and steam

This thread from yesterday about GP7's and 9's with steam generators and dynamic brakes:

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4322884

caused me to remember this slide at the Western Railway Museum Archives by the late Chuck Vercelli. It shows the Sacramento Daylight at its namesake station ready to head down to Lathrop to meet the San Joaquin Daylight. The slide is undated, but from what I gather from Richard Percy's site, it could only have been taken between 1965 and 1967, as this ex-T&NO geep only carried the number 3422 during that brief time span.

http://espee.railfan.net/tnogp09p.html

It was renumbered into the commute pool in 1967 as SP 3010, later became SP 3191, and is reportedly now on the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley in West Virginia pretending to be Baltimore & Ohio 6641.

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Truly an excellent photo in all respects. It really captures the scene; I feel like I am there.
Thanks for posting.
ALLEN

Chuck was a nice guy and sorely missed.

The unit is currently sitting at the shop in Cass,WV with damage after a very hard coupling.Don't know how long its going to be out of service.

Randy