Back to the big ALCos...
Me on an SP Alco C628, the 7109. I was 14 at this time. This is a scan off a slide my father took in Roseville, CA. I climbed up on one and he took the photo. This was likely in the Spring of 1970. The ALCos were on likely their way to the BN, who leased them that year. My dad was an SP locomotive engineer so we went anywhere we wanted, including inside the shops.
Reportedly (
sources), according to Strapac's great SP Compendium series, SP 7109 was built in April as SP 4850. In the 1965 renumbering it became SP 7109, SP Class AF628-2. In Jan. 1974 it was downgraded to switcher status and became 3121, SP Class AS628-1. It was sold in for scrap in Feb. 1980.
SP C628 3121 switches in Eugene, Oregon on an unrecorded day in January 1977.
Information, stories, suggestions, comments and/or constructive corrections are appreciated.
~Steve Sloan
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