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Nostalgia & History > Monday Meet, UP & WP, Oakland, Calif., January, 1982Date: 11/29/21 08:45 Monday Meet, UP & WP, Oakland, Calif., January, 1982 Author: FiveChime The yellow locomotives were creeping in by early 1982, their most common type, the SD40 shown
with a WP unit soon to be replaced. Dexter Day Photo, Passing BART's Oakland shop facility, January 1982. Regards, Jim Evans Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/29/21 08:47 by FiveChime.  Date: 11/29/21 09:29 Re: Monday Meet, UP & WP, Oakland, Calif., January, 1982 Author: PHall The yellow units had been a serious presence on the WP since the mid 70's.
Date: 11/29/21 10:06 Re: Monday Meet, UP & WP, Oakland, Calif., January, 1982 Author: FiveChime More were seen as the takeover got closer and comonly were sole power on WP trains.
Regards, Jim Evans Date: 11/29/21 11:59 Re: Monday Meet, UP & WP, Oakland, Calif., January, 1982 Author: PHall FiveChime Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > More were seen as the takeover got closer and > comonly were sole power on WP trains. > > Regards, Jim Evans Some of that was because WP owed UP a LOT of horsepower hours so some WP units were working locals for UP in SoCal and Kansas. UP was short of four axle power because of retirements of the GP30 and GP35 fleets. |