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Re: SP GP9 #3006 at Lodi, March 1971/And Question...
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 12-12-2011 - 12:54
Jim Wrote:
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> OPRRMS Wrote:
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> > Peter D. Wrote:
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> > > Was this unit also dual control. I read
> > somewhere,
> > > that if an SP unit had the scarlet wing paint
> > on
> > > the aft hood, that it could be run backwards
> as
> > a
> > > forward facing engine and the Engineer had a
> > > control stand facing aft? Two control stands?
> > > Thanks, Peter
> >
> > Yes. One of 12 SP GP9s, all passenger
> equipped,
> > that had two separate control stands for
> > bi-directional operation.
>
> True, but one of the 12 GP9s built with dual
> control lost its Steam Generator and dual controls
> and was assigned to freight service before it came
> from the T&NO to SP proper in the late 1950s. So
> for all intents, SP had 11 passenger GP9s with
> dual controls.
>
> The 3010 that usually was assigned to the
> Sacramento Daylight was erroneously renumbered
> into the freight GP9 numbers (3422 or something
> like that) even though it was a passenger unit in
> Sac Daylight service. That was corrected a few
> years later and it was numbered 3010, on top of
> the 3000-3009 series.
The correct number is indeed 12.
The one unit you reference was the T&NO282/SP3421/SP3352. Its steam generator was removed in 1962. Regardless of what you may have read in Strapac's books, it kept its dual controls and feathers on both ends, and stayed assigned to the T&L Lines, until it was rebuilt to the 3352 in 1972, at which time the second control stand was removed, it received a standard paint job, and was reassigned to the Pacific Lines then.
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> OPRRMS Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Peter D. Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Was this unit also dual control. I read
> > somewhere,
> > > that if an SP unit had the scarlet wing paint
> > on
> > > the aft hood, that it could be run backwards
> as
> > a
> > > forward facing engine and the Engineer had a
> > > control stand facing aft? Two control stands?
> > > Thanks, Peter
> >
> > Yes. One of 12 SP GP9s, all passenger
> equipped,
> > that had two separate control stands for
> > bi-directional operation.
>
> True, but one of the 12 GP9s built with dual
> control lost its Steam Generator and dual controls
> and was assigned to freight service before it came
> from the T&NO to SP proper in the late 1950s. So
> for all intents, SP had 11 passenger GP9s with
> dual controls.
>
> The 3010 that usually was assigned to the
> Sacramento Daylight was erroneously renumbered
> into the freight GP9 numbers (3422 or something
> like that) even though it was a passenger unit in
> Sac Daylight service. That was corrected a few
> years later and it was numbered 3010, on top of
> the 3000-3009 series.
The correct number is indeed 12.
The one unit you reference was the T&NO282/SP3421/SP3352. Its steam generator was removed in 1962. Regardless of what you may have read in Strapac's books, it kept its dual controls and feathers on both ends, and stayed assigned to the T&L Lines, until it was rebuilt to the 3352 in 1972, at which time the second control stand was removed, it received a standard paint job, and was reassigned to the Pacific Lines then.
