SP 4839

This loco was built in 2/1965 with EMD construction number 29853. It was built as a freight engine. It was painted in standard for the time bloody nose colors and featured a full 5 light headlight arrangement on the front end. The rear featured a dual sealed beam light only.

She was assigned number SP 6923 in the 1965 system renumbering.

She entered the GRIP program and emerged as SP 4703 in 8/12/1977. She was stripped of her turbocharger, and received a full 5-light rear gyralight package.

She was renumbered to SP 2964 on 11/25/1979 and assigned to work the Englewood hump yard in Houston, TX.

SP 6923:

SP 4703:

SP 2964:

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