harryw@plx.UUCP (04/23/86)
> > It is rather hard to imagine a unit off the Santa Fe up the > peninsula branch. This has been such an SP bastion that the > only time I've ever seen an off-line unit traveling over it > was to move a Western Pacific SW1500 dead-in-tow. I will > make a point of getting out to photograph the current SP > as well as the post merger road. > --Steve > ------- I have heard of other weird off-line/pool-power units venturing up the San Francisco peninsula in previous years. Here's a few that I can think of.. An SCL slug set made it to Bayshore Yards back around 1979 SP was testing this GE U36B-Mate Slug-U36B all over the system as a precursor to building their own slug sets a couple of years later. Back in '78 sometime a high-nose Norfolk and Western U30B (NW8494) also drifted into Bayshore when SP was caught in a severe motive power shortage. About 2 weeks ago, one of the new SPSF repainted SW1500's (SP2539) was working around 4th St Station in full yellow warbonnet!!) It actually looks kinda cute/dressy looking! With regards to SP new paint, there are now at least 2 SD9E's in warbonnet (4381 and 4363) and three SDP45's (3201,3207 and 3208) and a whole slew of SD45 rebuilds and a few T2's. --Harry