Nostalgia & History > UP One-off Gensets

In the early days of gensets,  UP had a couple of unique models,  Nos. 2004 and 2005.

1-2.    UPY GG20GP 2004 at Fresno, CA  6/24/05   This was not a genset but a battery powered unit,  as PHall corrected me below.  No exhaust stacks should have been my clue. Thanks Mr. Hall

3.      UPY GS14B 2005 at Wilmington, CA  8/17/06   Only one built.   When I took the picture, the unit was on loan to Pacific Harbor Line for their evaluation. 



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/21/20 15:01 by masterphots.

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Interesting photos. The third one would look good in maroon.

Both are unique - What great catches!
Bob

that 2005 is nice looking  and reminds people of alco 415's

The 2004 is NOT a GenSet. It's a "Green Goat" which was a battery powered locomotive.
It did have a small diesel genset on board to charge the batteries but it was way too small to do the job.
These locomotives were not really meant for 24/7 use and the continuous deep cycle charge/discharge was more then the batteries could handle which resulted in a number of battery fires.
Which is why the GenSets like 2005 and all of it's brothers came along. No big batteries to cause problems. They just had their own problems.

I shot that UPY 2005 in Topeka, KS last week!  It was in transit on a Herington-Topeka train.  The following day, it went east on the MTPAS, to the Alton & Southern.  Then, yesterday, it was apparently on a Chicago-North Platte train!  Lord only knows where this thing is headed to, or how it's getting there.

- Jeff Carlson

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NREX 2005 is supposed to be going from MEI at East St. Louis, IL to NRE at Mt. Vernon, IL. Couple hundred thousand miles later and it just might get there...

Haha!  "We Will Deliver... eventually!"

- Jeff

ble692 Wrote:
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> NREX 2005 is supposed to be going from MEI at East
> St. Louis, IL to NRE at Mt. Vernon, IL. Couple
> hundred thousand miles later and it just might get
> there...

Soooo, it was offered for $500K, wonder what it actually sold for?

Out 

Reportedly bought at UP auction by S&S Shortline Sales & Leasing in Utah. Reportedly one of the better gensets performance-reliability wise. Wonder what NRE can do for it? Sure does remind me of an Alco C-415!

Dick Samuels

masterphots Wrote:

> 1-2.    UPY GG20GP 2004 at Fresno, CA 6/24/05  

According to Don Strack's site, UPY 2004 was leased from Railpower and went into service at Fresno in April 2005.  I shot the unit sitting in that same spot around the same time you did.  Two months in and it had already been shoved off in a corner until someone could figure out what to do with/about it.  The unit left UP property in August 2007.

UP sacrificed 20 old four-axle GE's to win subsidies and supply frames and trucks for 20 more Green Goats in late 2005 and early 2006.  UP used them in Texas and the LA area, particularly Mira Loma:

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,2479251

They were sold at auction when their ten years were up in 2015.  I wonder if any Green Goats are still in service anywhere...or even still exist at all.