SP 7609

This loco was built in 2/1978 with EMD construction number 776071-2. She was built as a freight engine. She was painted in standard for the time bloody nose colors and featured large front plow, anticlimber, cab-roof air conditioner and a full 5 light headlight arrangement on both the front and rear end.

She was one of 20 SP/SSW GP40-2's known to have been repainted into the speed lettering scheme of the merged SP/D&RGW. She also featured the rare slanted SP on her nose.

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