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On Sunday, October 20, 1974, I made one of my many trips to Southern California to shoot the Santa Fe and Union Pacific in the desert. SD45-2's were top of the line power then and were being widely used. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) 5675 with 5506 and 8707 head east, at East Barstow, from the Barstow Yard.
ATSF 5675 was an EMD SD45-2. Reportedly: it was built in 1973 serial number 72642-32. In 1986 it was rebuilt to SD45-2u SPSF 7229, (but may never have worn that number.) It was later repainted to ATSF 5829. It was subsequently patched to BNSF 6479 in 2000. It was later rebuilt into an EMD SD40-2R, BNSF 1570.
NOTE: In October 2021 Evan Werkema said, "This SD45-2 usually is reported as rebuilt to 7229, and it was definitely the last rebuilt SD45-2 released in SPSF red and yellow, but I wonder if it ever actually wore that number. The 7200-series road numbers were another reflection of the combined SPSF numbering scheme, and since 6-axle EMD's in the 7200's didn't fit Santa Fe's pre-merger numbering scheme at all (where the 6000's, 7000's, and 8000's were reserved for GE's), the rebuilt SD45-2's were quickly renumbered into the 5800's following the merger rejection in July 1986. In an old thread, spider1319 posted a photo of just-released red and yellow 5829 coupled to just-released blue and yellow 5830, which suggests that if ATSF SD45-2 7229 ever existed, it was likely only within the confines of the San Bernardino Shops prior to release."
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Unknown 35mm film camera:
Neg. 1.1.2.10.31, Scan 2009.11.28.2.5-ph
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