Re: attn: Shortine Sammie
Author: Tom McCann
Date: 08-03-2009 - 08:42
A sister unit to #3502, in the same paint scheme, is currently working the WVR line from Woodburn to Stayton. This is #3503. It is often parked at the WVR-UP junction in Woodburn and is accessible for photography. An old SP Mogul is on display next to where WVR parks the locomotive.
Another GP35, #3501, had appeared in this color scheme as a WVR unit, but was subsequently repainted in a green and gold scheme for the Albany & Eastern line out of Albany, Ore. to Lebanon, Mill City and Sweet Home.
At one time, the A&E line also had an ex-SP GP9 in the "bloody nose" red and gray, with its full SP lighting package still intact. I don't know if it's still there.