x Wrote:
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> Thanks for the good info.
>
> Someone told me either the GN or BN used power up
> the steep spur to the Boeing Everett 747 plant
> that was ballasted with concrete to get better
> traction. I raised an eyebrow when he said it
> 🤨 . Made me wonder if GN 598 or 599
> worked that Boeing spur but others have said they
> were on the OC&E, so perhaps not.
>
> Throttle Hogg Wrote:
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> > Museum happy to get the SD-9 even without
> traction
> > motors. One of two SD-9's purchased by the
> > Great Northern with dynamic brakes for service
> on
> > the Oregon, California and Eastern. SP and
> > GN switched off operation of the OC&E every 5
> > years. This unit, GN 1730, BNSF 6125, BN 6125,
> > GN 598. Built 5/58. Long hood forward and 24
> > brake schedule. (GN was a late adopter of the
> 24
> > brake valve sticking with the 6BL until it's
> last
> > order of GP-9's and these SD-9's)
> > The former GN 599 nee BNSF 6126 was the second
> > SD-9 for OC&E and the unit donated to
> Skykomish,
> > WA and is now likely to be scrapped.


Those two units worked a remarkable amount of time in or near their original home. After the OC&E ceased to be, they frequently were switcher and local power at the Klamath Falls yard. By the time of the BNSF merger they were spending more time in Interbay and Pasco as hump power but I know I saw one of them in Klamath Falls as late as 2000.