Re: SP power on the point of the starlight
Author: SP Cascade
Date: 01-12-2013 - 11:45
Ed Immel Wrote:
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> There was also a time in the 1980's when the BN
> refused to allow the operation of the SDP40's
> between Portland and Seattle. Amtrak used a pair
> of Southern F-units that were added and removed in
> Portland.
I think you mean the late 1970s. I was on a Coast Starlight which had a Southern FP7 in 1977. The SDP40Fs were gone from the Starlight by 1980 or 1981.