Tom Moungovan Wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.

My quess is that it was going to Sacto for engine work.