SP 6002B
This loco was built in 4/1947 with EMD construction number 4222. She was built as a dual engined E7 B-unit. She was painted in the SP's Golden State red and silver paint, but was repainted into standard Daylight orange and red fairly quickly. She was delivered as part of an ABB set which included a matching E7 A-unit numbered SP 6002A & a mate E7 B-unit numbered 6002C, but they were never drawbar equipped.
She was renumbered to remove her alpha suffix along with many other SP F-units and PA's in 1949. She became the SP 5904 on 11/10/1949.
At some point in the late 1950's or possibly early 1960's she was repainted into the newly adopted grey and red "bloody nose" scheme for all locomotives regardless of passenger or freight assignment.
It has been reported that she was wrecked at Bassett, CA, but no date is given. Other reports show that the big wreck at Basset occurred on 09/23/1967 which makes it difficult for her to have been involved in that wreck after having been retired a month prior. Unless there were two wrecks there within a few months of each other. Further info is needed.....
She was retired on 08/21/1967 and sold to GE for scrap on 10/26/1967.