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Re: Goodbye Old Friends...SP/UP SW-1500's time runs out
Author: Z-train
Date: 09-30-2011 - 21:05
Shortline Sammie Wrote:
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> A great article in the Kalmbach Locomotive 2011 by
> Kyle Wisemann-Yee and Scott Lothes details the
> last days of the SW-1500's on the Oregon City
> Switcher as it switched the Blue Heron paper mill
> in Oregon City, OR.
>
I agree with you about the article. I'll admit that prior to reading the article, I didn't pay much attention to the SP & UP SW-1500s. I never called them cruds, but when I saw them on the SP, I thought they were ugly compared to the EMD switchers with the more rounded cabs like the NW-2Es. My indifference towards them continued in the UP days.
I had no idea that crews preferred these locomotives to others for switching assignments.
But now that they are no longer operating on the UP, the line from a Joni Mitchell song "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" seems to be too true.
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> A great article in the Kalmbach Locomotive 2011 by
> Kyle Wisemann-Yee and Scott Lothes details the
> last days of the SW-1500's on the Oregon City
> Switcher as it switched the Blue Heron paper mill
> in Oregon City, OR.
>
I agree with you about the article. I'll admit that prior to reading the article, I didn't pay much attention to the SP & UP SW-1500s. I never called them cruds, but when I saw them on the SP, I thought they were ugly compared to the EMD switchers with the more rounded cabs like the NW-2Es. My indifference towards them continued in the UP days.
I had no idea that crews preferred these locomotives to others for switching assignments.
But now that they are no longer operating on the UP, the line from a Joni Mitchell song "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" seems to be too true.
