SP 5883

Charles Lange photo - Lompoc, CA - June 10, 1978

 

This loco was built in 4/1959 with EMD construction number 25642. She was built as a freight engine. She was painted in newly adopted grey and red bloody nose scheme and featured a full 5 light headlight arrangement on each end. She featured a low front hood.

She was assigned number SP 3719 in the 1965 system renumbering.

She was not rebuilt as part of the GRIP program.

She was renumbered into a switcher series as SP 2883 (ironically with the same last three digits of her original number) in 1978.

 

SP 3719:

SP 3719

Charles Lange

Lompoc, CA; 06/10/1978

SP 3719

Charles Lange

Lompoc, CA; 06/10/1978

SP 3719

Charles Lange

Lompoc, CA; 06/10/1978

SP 3719

Charles Lange

Lompoc, CA; 06/10/1978

 

SP 2883:

SP 2883

Bob Dengler

San Jose, CA; 12/1978

SP 2883

Steve Sloan

Roseville, CA; 02/23/1980

SP 2883

Michael Walsdorf

New Iberia, LA; 04/27/1982

SP 2883

Michael Walsdorf

New Iberia, LA; 04/27/1982

 

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