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From: harryw@plx.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Santa Fe on the peninsula!!
Message-ID: <191@plx.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Apr-86 12:23:18 EST
Article-I.D.: plx.191
Posted: Wed Apr 23 12:23:18 1986
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> 
> 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