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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dash-al: [QB] After reading this thread, I just had to get out and find these two unpatched SP locomotives in local service. I spent the better part of yesterday (Saturday, November 1st) hopping around Orange and LA county, checking out a few railyards. The links in the middle of the text will take you to the corresponding images. The skies were blue and the sun was perfect in all but Buena Park. I continued past the limits of the Branch, but add those additional hops for your reading and viewing pleasure. ~ ~ ~ 1st stop, Anaheim Wye. Five SW1500 switchers on the engine track adjacent to the yard office. A fuel/service truck was there and each lil'locomtive got a once over by the mechanical tech. The other member of the service team was in the cabs, checking wipers, lights, emptying trash and such. [URL=http://www.yayax.com/gateway/upy1144.htm]http://www.yayax.com/gateway/upy1144.htm[/URL] [URL=http://www.yayax.com/gateway/sw1500a.htm]http://www.yayax.com/gateway/sw1500a.htm[/URL] [URL=http://www.yayax.com/gateway/upy1212.htm]http://www.yayax.com/gateway/upy1212.htm[/URL] [URL=http://www.yayax.com/gateway/upy1212a.htm]http://www.yayax.com/gateway/upy1212a.htm[/URL] There are no signs of the track and tie replacement crews. The only remnants of equipment are two ballast regulators-type machines on the bad order spur and five porta-potties. No hauler power on the wye, Saturday is their day off, I think ?? UPY 1212 - patched, formerly SP 2649. UPY 1144 - patched, formerly SP 2565. UPY 1206 - UP colors. UP 1095 - UP colors. UP 1089 - UP colors. ~ ~ ~ 2nd stop, Buena Park. Two SP switchers, both unpatched, idling at their typical spot across from the Georgia-Pacific plant near the wye in the middle of the Southern Pacific Industrial Park. SP 2568 features a red dot on the cab, above the road numbers. SP 2718 has a faded white diamond in the same position. Any ideas what those symbols delineate ?? I recall a TO post about spark arrestors, or such. SP 2568 - unpatched and well faded. (destined to become UPY 1147). SP 2718 - MP15AC, unpatched. (destined to become UPY 1447). [URL=http://www.yayax.com/gateway/sp2568a.htm]http://www.yayax.com/gateway/sp2568a.htm[/URL] [URL=http://www.yayax.com/gateway/sp2568.htm]http://www.yayax.com/gateway/sp2568.htm[/URL] ~ ~ ~ 3rd stop, Los Nietos. Two GP38s tied down and shutdown near the water tower. That was it. Kinda disappointing. All quiet here, until we tried to leave and my truck's security system would not allow the truck to start. I stuck around the gate while Jerry and John headed over to the east side of the diamonds at Los Nietos on the BNSF. Shortly after they left, a hauler pulled in with a nice variety of freight. Mostly tank cars, several lumber loads, a few boxcars, three reefers, a string of flats with open topped containers of garbage or contaminated soil, and one empty new style auto-rack, possibly bad-ordered. The hauler was lead by a patched SP SD40, UP 268X. Also in the consist were SP 8658, UP 2284 and a UP SD70, I think. Too bad SP 8658 wasn't on the point. All photos of the hauler are on Kodak film, both batteries had died and were on the charger in the dead truck. UP 749 - GP38-2L ( "L" -- ?? ) SP 4801 - unpatched, light graffiti. (destined to be UP 565). Interesting past to UP 749. Formerly a CRP&I (Rock Island) locomotive, then MP 2249, then UP 2249, and now UP 749. No dynamic braking. [URL=http://www.yayax.com/gateway/up749.htm]http://www.yayax.com/gateway/up749.htm[/URL] We caught a few BNSF stack trains and three or four Surfliners, then headed to the Metrolink platform at Commerce. [URL=http://www.yayax.com/gateway/jerry.htm]http://www.yayax.com/gateway/jerry.htm[/URL] ~ ~ ~ 4th stop, Commerce Platform. As we arrived, two road units were building a stack train in the former BNSF Auto-veyor yard. One being an old B23-7 Santa Fe engine. I got several acceptable images, none were excellent, even though the light was awesome !! [URL=http://www.yayax.com/gateway/bnsf2845.htm]http://www.yayax.com/gateway/bnsf2845.htm[/URL] [URL=http://www.yayax.com/gateway/bnsf4270.htm]http://www.yayax.com/gateway/bnsf4270.htm[/URL] [URL=http://www.yayax.com/gateway/bnsf4270a.htm]http://www.yayax.com/gateway/bnsf4270a.htm[/URL] ~ ~ ~ Last stop, Hobart Tower. Kinda quiet here. One long westbound stack train in the yard, sticking out past Hobart as they cut the train into sections. Power was BNSF 5443 (H-1), BNSF 4490 (peach pumpkin), and BNSF 875 (warbonnet) [URL=http://www.yayax.com/gateway/bnsf5443.htm]http://www.yayax.com/gateway/bnsf5443.htm[/URL] [URL=http://www.yayax.com/gateway/bnsf4490.htm]http://www.yayax.com/gateway/bnsf4490.htm[/URL] [URL=http://www.yayax.com/gateway/bnsf875.htm]http://www.yayax.com/gateway/bnsf875.htm[/URL] And the parting shot... A hawk ( ?? ) with prey in his talons on the top of the power pole just above the Hobart Tower roofline. He watched the shove and ate dinner. [URL=http://www.yayax.com/gateway/hawk.htm]http://www.yayax.com/gateway/hawk.htm[/URL] Oh well... It was a great day of railfanning !! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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