WAF Wrote:
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> Those two SW900s were odd balls in the NWP
> switcher pool which by 1971 was locked into
> 2591-2595.

Yup.

Continuing on, the 1190 and 1191 were sent to the NWP to replace the 1170 and 1171 at Eureka, then the 1195 replaced the 1190 after an incident. Like all NWP-assigned units, the heavy maintenance was done at Roseville, and the units were hauled dead-in-train between those points.

The NWP was also assigned a couple of SW8s before local traffic dropped off enough to send them elsewhere. The 1128 was still assigned there in 1972. They also had the 1127 for a while, but I don't specifically remember if it stayed as long as the 1128.

As an aside, it's been pointed out to me that the 1190s are referred to as "SW9E" in Steve's initial post. Shows how much I pay attention; I hadn't noticed it until it was pointed out to me. In any event, they were SW900Es, rebuilt from SW900s - a different animal from an SW9.