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SP Historic Diesels Volume 19: Post-1978 General Electric and Morrison-Knudsen Locomotives Paperback - 2014
by Joseph A Strapac
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- Title SP Historic Diesels Volume 19: Post-1978 General Electric and Morrison-Knudsen Locomotives
- Author Joseph A Strapac
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 144
- Publisher Shade Tree Books, Bellflower, CA
- Date 2014-01
- ISBN 9780930742478
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SP Historic Diesels Volume 19: Post-1978 General Electric and Morrison-Knudsen Locomotives
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Southern Pacific Historic Diesels Volume 19: Post-1978 GE and M-K Locomotives
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Shade Tree Books. Softcover. New. In January 1975, Southern Pacific took delivery of its last General Electric U33C locomotive, considering this model's dismal maintenance record on the SP, observers could reasonably expect never again to see new GE locomotives on this railroad. Just three years later, however, GE came roaring back with their answer to Electro-Motive's GP40-2, the B30-7, and SP was first in line to buy a sample set. Ultimately, the SP/SSW was to buy 110 B30-7 and another 20 B36-7 locomotives. Slipped in among these high-horsepower units were fifteen B23-7 locomotives delivered in 1980. In 1987-89, 95 new B39 and Dash 8 Techno-Toasters were added to the roster, along with 195 GP60s from GM Locomotive Group. Once a tractive effort railroad,the SP was re-inventing itself as a cross-country intermodal conveyor belt in competition with the Union Pacific and the Santa Fe. At the same time, control of the SP migrated to Rio Grande Industries, then gearing up for a boom in transportation of…
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