SP 5890

This loco was built in 9/1959 with EMD construction number 25649. 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. It featured a low front hood.

She was assigned number SP 3726 in the 1965 system renumbering.

She entered the GRIP program and emerged as SP 3879 in 5/1976.

The above photo of this unit before being rebuilt shows it with its full complement of lights on the front, however, other photos taken in August 1987 show the nose UDE light removed and a UDE light that appears to have come from an SP GE unit mounted atop the cab. It also shows a rear view of the unit with the rear UDE light gone, but with the rear gyralight intact.

SP 3726:

SP 3879:

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