SP5103 Wrote:
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> (Ooops- continued)Once and a while, an SP shop
> would add signal lights to a unit. GE 70T SP #5117
> was first assigned to Oregon branches, then to
> the NWP in the early 60s. About 1965 it was
> equipped with signal lights, but I don't know
> where it was assigned to need the signal lights
> unil it was sold in late 1966 to WCTU. Was it in
> the Bay Area (Oakland coach yard?) or in Los
> Angeles?

Oakland... but maybe not where you think. SP had sold it to GE (which in turn, eventually sold it to White City), and while under GE ownership it spent most of its time sitting at GE's facility south of 54th Avenue in East Oakland - the same place where the "Popsicles" sat for years before being cut up for scrap by Alco (!) Metals. There's even a photo of it there on page 17 of Strapac's 1971 SP MPA.