I just had to dig through my old slides from this
time. Being teenagers with a car and new 35mm cameras,
my friend and I were out a lot railfanning in the mid
70's.
The last Chinese Red unit we shot was a filthy SD24
6249( Q 509 ) on May 29, 1976 on an eastbound at
Savanna.
The last black and gray was NW-2 559( Q 9406B ) in
Sept. 1976 by the Clyde turntable.
I assume the various paint shops continued to
repaint older units in Red and Gray up till the
merger.
Bob Runty
--- Ed DeRouin <Ed@pixelspublishing.com> wrote:
>
> I agree that the last new red units were received in
> 1968. I Don't
> have time to dig into the files, but the units had
> to be either C&S
> SD40s, U30Cs, or CB&Q U30Bs. In any case, they would
> be the
> last locomotives received prior to the green, white,
> and black
> U23Cs and SD45s.
>
> Ed
>
>
> -- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, amtrak347@a... wrote:
> > In a message dated 2/17/2005 9:19:22 A.M. Central
> Standard
> Time,
> > kohlj@b... writes:
> >
> > Yes, Chinese red units began in 1959 and the last
> one was
> painted in 1976...
> >
> > The 1976 date refers to the unit being repainted
> in BN colors,
> right Jan?
> > This begs the question, what was the last unit to
> receive the
> Chinese Red
> > paint scheme? I would suspect it was some time in
> 1968, if
> that late.
> >
> > Bob Campbell
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>
>
>
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