Re: SD9s
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 08-30-2008 - 22:02
tabasco Wrote:
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> didn't Union Pacific at one have SD9 locomotives?
UP had 10 SD7s, but no SD9s.
> did these ever make their way to spokane?
Don't know. They were assigned to local service in Utah and Wyoming before becoming hump units (with one being assigned to Pocatello). Conversely, they also had 30 GP7s, which did frequent Spokane.
> When did UP sell their GP9s and SD9s?
The SD7s were retired in the late Seventies and early Eighties. The GP9 left between the mid Seventies to the late Eighties.
The GP9s were