T&NO 246

This loco was built in 5/1954 with EMD builder's number 19478. She was built as a dual service freight or passenger engine with boiler in her nose. She was setup with a single control stand, thus she had wings on the front high nose only. She was painted in standard for the time black widow colors and featured Pyle oscilating barrel signal lights on both ends.

During the early 1960's, she lost her steam generator.

She was assigned number SP 3417 in the 1965 system renumbering.

She entered the GRIP program and emerged as SP 3386 in bloody nose paint in 08/09/1973. She was one of the few ex T&NO GP9's to be outfitted with SP Pacific Lines type gyralights at GRIP. She sported the somewhat unusual dual casting with the upper light set as a gyralight and the lower as a red UDE light.

She was renumbered into a switcher series as SP 2870 in 11/27/1978.

She was retired on 02/12/93; sold 10/20/95 to Omni-Trax, Wichita; scrapped 12/01 by Metal Processing Inc., Vinton, TX.

SP 3386:

SP 2870:

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