SP5103 Wrote:
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> Found a photo of 3873. It is as I recalled:
> [www.flickr.com]
> 0457/ Confirming the photo identity - I don't
> think they had any other EMD with that control
> arrangement (at the time of the photo) and the
> museum logo is visible on the first aid kit.
>
> A few years ago, they acquired an xUS military GP9
> that was originally an SP factory low nose. It
> missed SP's rebuilding program, but likely an
> unknown amount of overhaul work was done before it
> went to the Army.
>
> IIRC - all the SP SD9s went through the rebuilding
> program, but many of the GP9s did not. SP never
> bought a late model GP9, and the switch to bloody
> nose paint, low nose units and 26L brake happened
> within a few years of each other, though SP never
> got any last phase SD9s.
>
> 26L first appeared in production about 1958,
> though it was earlier on the commuter/transit side
> which is where it originated. 6BL and 14EL
> remained an option for a while.

I was completely rebuilt. My brother and I were the fastest SD-9’s on the system. Even got called to duty for business trains once or twice.