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Nostalgia & History > No GEVOs or gensetsDate: 05/31/20 00:03 No GEVOs or gensets Author: wpamtk 1. UP's Santa Cruz Local prepares to depart Watsonville Junction, CA on10/5/08, behind an ex-D&RGW GP40-2, a former MILW GP40 rebuilt by MP!, and a former MP GP38-2. A few days later, the cement plant at Davenport shut down and that was that.
2. A yard job at Benicia, CA on 12/6/08 powered by an ex-SP MP15AC and SW1500, and a patched SSW GP40-2. Three units needed to shove loads up a spur to warehouses at the top of a steep grade. Not so long ago, but long enough...   Date: 05/31/20 00:11 Re: No GEVOs or gensets Author: Evan_Werkema wpamtk Wrote:
> 1. UP's Santa Cruz Local prepares to depart > Watsonville Junction, CA on10/5/08, behind an > ex-D&RGW GP40-2, a former MILW GP40 rebuilt by > MP!, and a former MP GP38-2. A few days later, the > cement plant at Davenport shut down and that was > that. The 1347 is ex-D&RGW 3110, one of the last Rio Grande units to be patched when its time came in January of 2006. The unit spent quite a bit of time on the Santa Cruz job in the months before it was patched: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1077174 https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,993520,993744#993744 https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,985400 |