OPRRMS Wrote:
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> Tom Moungovan Wrote:
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> > Can anybody please offer an opinion as to why
> an
> > SP C-415 would have been in consist heading
> West
> > through Mojave in early 1967?
>
> Any idea which one it was, or if it was running?
> Warranty 251 engine work was being done at
> Sacramento around that time (especially on the
> C630s). The 2401 suffered some sort of engine
> failure within a few weeks of it being placed in
> service at LA in early December 1966. It was
> evebtually sent back to Alco for work, but it's
> possible it went to Sacto first, given the usual
> routine. It didn't come back to LA until late in
> the summer of 1967.
>
> As an aside, while it was in Schenectady, Alco
> replaced 2401's duplex controller with dual
> control stands. Said to have been a demonstration
> project done on Alco's dime, the story was that
> they offered to do the other nine units at an
> agreed upon price, but SP declined. Too bad, too,
> as the lack of cab space was the crews' major
> gripe about the units.


It was the 2407 as the last unit coupled directly behind SD-40 8424 in Sept. '67. I was off
by a few months on the date, but it was Mojave.