Of course my preference would be to see the units masquerade as SP black-widow F7's. Get a nose-door headlight and a Pyle for the nose. Sure would look pretty as a faux-Suntan. Anyone know if the SP ever ran wagons into Santa Cruz between 1956 and 1959 (end of steam-end of Suntan)? I know the usual power was GPP-9s (U-boats 3000-3009). I'd love to know of pics of that era. When I first moved to Santa Cruz in 1963, the SP was still using an operations method where a local switcher was assigned to local switching (black widow GP-9), and the daily train would be a "turn" from Watsonville late in the afternoon, where it simply swapped loads and empties in SC yard , and returned to WJ performing intermediate line switching along the way. Typical power was usually a pair of SWs, and yielded to GP-9s by 1965. I managed to see an Alco S-1 (or close)parked on the West Side. I also once observed an Alco RSD-600 on the point of a "turn" in 1965.