The largest single order for a single class (GF644L-2) of locomotives ever by the Southern Pacific was for 279 General Electric AC4400CW diesels. These 4400-horsepower locomotives were delivered to the chronically power-short SP between April and November 1995 - at a rate of up to six new units being delivered per day! These engines quickly became ubiquitous, and were found all over the far-flung Espee system. On November 6, 1996, not quite two months after the Union Pacific acquired the SP, train 1-SNTA-C-03, sits in Bakersfield, California, ready to head east and conquer the crossing of the Tehachapi Mountains, with a trio of these engines - 365, 321 and 212 - on the head-end.
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just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
