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Re: SP's "little" FMs---the last one
Author: Sunset Express
Date: 01-08-2010 - 19:30

I played a key role in preserving the last of the SP H12-44s.
I forget its SP number now (1579 maybe?), but there was one being used to switch the Southwest Portland Cement Co. plant west of Odessa, TX. I had dropped by occasionally to photograph it in the late 1980s and early 90s.
When I got some interest from a TX museum to save it, I wrote the plant manager to see if we could work out a deal. It turned out the timing was right. The plant was planning to sell it or scrap it. A group of us went out there, took a test drive, and negotiated a deal.
I seem to recall there was one other museum that had tried to acquire it as well.

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  SP's "little" FMs Steve Sloan 01-08-2010 - 13:37
  Re: SP's "little" FMs Tom Moungovan 01-08-2010 - 15:29
  Re: SP's "little" FMs OPRRMS 01-08-2010 - 21:13
  Re: SP's "little" FMs Castlebridge 01-08-2010 - 16:56
  Re: SP's "little" FMs---the last one Sunset Express 01-08-2010 - 19:30
  Re: SP's "little" FMs---the last one OPRRMS 01-08-2010 - 19:41
  Re: SP's "little" FMs---the last one Sunset Express 01-08-2010 - 20:12


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