Friday, March 22, 2024

Train on Benicia Bridge

 

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Cotton Belt (SSW) 9301 led a mixed set of EMD and ALCo locomotives off the Suisun Bay Bridge at Martienez, CA, on an unrecorded date in 1974. The power on this train was SSW 9301, SP 8443, 4009 and 4006 (SD45T-2, SD40, 2x RS32.)
SSW 9301 was an EMD SD45T-2, SP Class EF636C-8. Reportedly it was built in 1973, builders number 72625-41.
This locomotive was upgraded in 1987 emerging as SP 6827 SP Class EF636R-7.
It was retired in 1999. It became BLE 908.
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Hand Scan Film image: 2009.11.28.2.2-ph, Neg_1.1.2.6.37

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