Southern Pacific C628 3117 and an SD45 sit next to an SD9 and GE 70 tonner SP 5100 in Eugene, Oregon on an unknown date in January 1977.
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Reportedly (
sources), according to Strapac's great SP compendium series, SP 3117 was built as ALCo demonstrator 628-3. It was purchased in Nov. 1964 and became SP 4872 SP Class DF-505. In the 1965 renumbering it became SP 7102 SP Class AF628-1 In November 1973 it was downgraded to switcher status becoming SP 3117 Alco C628, SP Class AS628-1. In Feb. 1980 it was sold and scrapped.
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