SP5103 Wrote:
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> Found my copy of SP San Joaquin Valley Line by
> Dill which does have a few photos.
>
> Tom gets an A+ for memory. There is a photo of an
> SD9 with an ashcan light and 701 in the train
> indicators at Saltdale dated June of 67 (clearly
> on jointed rail). Earlier trains in 52 and 53 with
> mikes 3227 and 3201.
>
> Diesels on the Lone Pine/Jawbone/Owenyo local seem
> have been limited to single units - RSD5, then
> SD/GP9, then primarily SD39 and back to SD/GP9.
> Other possibilities still exist.
>
> Unless you actually witnessed as set of SD40/45
> units going to the Navy interchange near Inyokern
> to drag the Navy diesels out on their own wheels,
> I would question it. By the 1980s these probably
> would have moved by flat car. The one at the
> Dalles was apparently surplused after 9-11
> concerns ended the dam tours by train. I ran the
> one at Nebo a few years ago though it was rarely
> used. It was recently surplused and auctioned, I
> expect it to show up again somewhere.

The 2 Ge USN Diesels came out on their own wheels and I saw them at West Colton in the Early 80's, they then went to the USMC at Yermo, Ca