Severe Duty Wrote:
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> Huh. Yesterday evening, we got lucky and were
> called to deadhead back to Calwa via Amtrak 718.
> While we were on the platform at Emeryville, a
> light-power move cruised by us. It had two freshly
> painted SD-40 somethings and then four big jacks,
> but all of that was powered on the far end by two
> non-turbocharged GP somethings, one of which had
> the different style of UP lettering (it's a little
> more squared off, and I was once told that's the
> style of lettering chosen for ex-MOPac units..??)

Well, maybe "chosen" isn't exactly the right term. That's the type of stick-on lettering that a lot of the ex-MoP units received when they were first repainted at North Little Rock in UP colors after the merger. A lot of GP15-1s and GP38-2s still have that lettering.

> Anyway, the move went back and forth a couple of
> times without doing any work, and I thought it was
> pretty cool listening to the GP somethings come
> all the way out as it got up to speed again. It
> seemed to me the only units on line were the old
> Geeps. I was kind of curious as to what the heck
> they were doing. Just went back and forth for a
> mile or so a couple of times. Was this part of
> what you're mentioning, OPPRMS?

Maybe. Remember their numbers, by chance? 1500's? 1600's?

Do you think the non-turbo units were an RCL job that was just handling the other units? Most of the yard jobs in Oakland now need two units instead of just a single unit, as it's been hard to find a good-running RCL recently. There's a two unit set of GP15-1's currently operating in Oakland, the Y587 and the Y684, of which the Y587 has the squared-off lettering.