Nostalgia & History > Techno-Toaster Tuesday

When these units were new, I recall that they often ran in matched sets of four.  Here, the 8003 leads what looks like an APL stack train eastbound through San Timoteo Canyon, not sure of the exact location.  Slide mount says FEB 88.  SP 8003 was later UP 5612, UP 1803.

mike woodruff
north platte ne

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Nice consist and shot...

JG

Nice B39 shot, Mike!

texchief1

Very NICE, used to like those units. They also had nice sounding horns.

Larry

'Looks to be near El Casco.

Greg Stadter
Phoenix, AZ

Nice! Great seeing four clean SP locomotives. 

Illinois Railway Museum has one of the original SP units.   It's their newest locomotive and fully functional. 

Dave 

Haha techno-toaster! I've never heard that one!

They look great.  I wonder how engineers liked them?  GE's seem to pull better.  I wonder if GE had given those B-B trucks a better, softer ride?

GN599 Wrote:
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> Haha techno-toaster! I've never heard that one!

Gandy Dancer did a four VHS series on the Union Pacific's Wyoming Division around 1990 when the C40-8 was the newest thing.  The narrator used the term repeatedly.

I remember those SP/SSW 8000's back in the 1990-92 era.  Down in the Mississippi Valley between Gorham and Wolf Lake on the Chester Subdivision you would hear one of those things in the lead in the distance, and about the only thing that sounded sweeter than that distant horn could have been a steam whistle.  They just sounded unique, and we loved hearing them.  Even Kurt, never much of a diesel guy, thought they sounded great.

Mary McPherson
Dongola, IL
Diverging Clear Productions

Excellent shot of some unusually clean SP power.
GK