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SP SD9 on the PLA

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Pacific Locomotive Association (PLA) owned Southern Pacific (SP) 5472 in Sunol, CA on the PLA's Niles Canyon Railway on Sunday, March 28, 2010.
PLA’s SP 5472 is an EMD SD9, SP Class DF-125. Reportedly: it was built in 1956 by EMD as an SD9, builders number 21297, SP 5472, SP Class DF-125. In 1965 it was renumbered to SP 3946, SP Class EF618-5.
This locomotive was upgraded in 1977 emerging as SP 4423, SD9E SP Class EF618R-1.
The reported disposition of this locomotive is: 4423 was sold to Omnitrax the summer of 1993, along with about 100 other units. It became NWP 4423, purchased by Howard Wise of the Oakland Terminal Railway. PLA contracted to get this locomotive just one day before it was to be scrapped.
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