Re: UP 2669 Gen Set

[Steve Wise <swise@aoot.com>]

Here's a recent citing of the genset:

http://www.lionel.com/visionline/gensetswitcher.html#/nav/products/greenfleet/gensetswitcher


:)



On 07/27/2010 10:01 PM, Bill Lohman wrote:
> Excellent!!
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:52 PM, <dwayneg57@aol.com
> <mailto:dwayneg57@aol.com>> wrote:
>
>     Did a google on UP 2669 Gen Set and this is what popped up.
>
>     *Owner*: 	Union Pacific 	Number: 	
>     UPY 2669
>     Built: 	June 2007 	Serial Number: 	2RPBDB20864000126
>     Genset History: 	UPY 2669 (2007-present) 	Converted at: 	Super
>     Steel, Glenville, NY
>     			
>     *Donor Unit*: 	Union Pacific (UP) 146 (GE B23-7) 	Built: 	Dec. 1979
>     Build No.: 	42696 	Frame No.: 	
>     Unit History: 	Missouri Pacific (MP) 2335 		
>     	MP 4646 (Renumbered) 		
>     	UP 146 (Merger, ret. for rbld in May '04) 		
>
>     	
>     *Notes*: 	
>     A
>     	
>     UP's first group of RP20BD locomoitves was built on the frames of
>     retired B30-7 and B30-7A units, and are classed by UP as RP20GE.
>      From photographic evidence.
>     B
>     	
>     UP's order for 80 RP20BD models and 18 RP20BH locomotives is funded
>     by TERP. The units are to be depoloyed in San Antonio (9 units),
>     Houston (43 units) and Fort Worth (46 units). From a Railpower press
>     release and the release of a Union Pacific presentation on Genset
>     switchers in Sacramento, CA July, 2006.
>     C
>     	
>     Previous unit numbers and histories supplied by Railpower, with
>     histories from Don Strack's Modern Era UP
>     <http://utahrails.net/all-time/all-time-02.php#b23-185>
>
>
>