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Re: Paging OPRRMS
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 10-31-2016 - 11:12

AP reader Wrote:
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> Below is that same GP9E (3883) on a commuter
> train.
> Did it need any special controls to work
> commutes?

No. However, SP's freight GP9's weren't equipped with a Communicating Pipe, so in order to accomplish that a temporary air hose would be run from the Communicating hose on the rear of the trailing unit to a connection with the cab whistle pipe in the air brake compartment under the lead unit's cab. The hose would be on the other side of the locomotive, so it's not possible to tell if it's there in this photo.

> Another photo below:
> Watsonville Junction, California.
> February 05, 1987
>
> Was Watsonville Jct a busy place back then?
> Appears to be in this photo.

Fairly busy. It was in a long slow decline as more and more perishable traffic shifted to trucks and it was eliminated as a crew change point for freight trains.

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