Showing posts with label WP GP40-2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WP GP40-2. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Whose Railroad is This? - Or WP Lives Part Four

UP in Check at Vancouver, Washington. Former WP GP40-2 906 works the hill, while 9244 N. waits to crossover. Date must be around 1996, neither the Mill Plain overpass, or the new hill track have been built.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

WP Lives Part Three - GP40-2 with an MP Touch

UP GP40-2 912 at Guilds Lake Yard, Portland, Oregon
Subtitle; "If Locomotives Could Talk."  UP 912 is of a group of ten WP GP40-2's that were by turns stored at Stockton, rebuilt as slug masters, leased to the MP for service in Texas, and some would then be concentrated in the Northwest in local and secondary service. One unit, 907 was lettered Missouri Pacific on yellow paint. I would love to know the story behind the Mop Jenks Shop lettering and numbering font variation. Roster info from.