Sunday, June 9, 2024

SP 3208 in Orland, CA

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Southern Pacific SDP45 3208 is running through Orland, CA on Tuesday, April 28, 1981. The crowd is gathered for the GS4 powered train behind the diesel. According to WAF on Train Orders, "3208 was the helper on 4449 and had to wye at Tehama since it was running backwards on the Special."
SP 3208 is an EMD SDP45, SP Class EP636-1. Reportedly: SP 3208 was built in 1967 by EMD as a model SDP-45, builders number 32857, SP 3208, SP Class EP636-1. These were later reclassified to freight service and reclassified in 1985 to SP Class EF636-13.
This locomotive was retired in 1986, scrapped in 1988.
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Analog Image, Kodachrome Slide 2.5-818, Scan 2010.12.18.2.7-ph


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