Warts and All -- SSW EMD GP60 Locomotive in San Luis Obispo, California
by Darin Volpe
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Warts and All -- SSW EMD GP60 Locomotive in San Luis Obispo, California
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Darin Volpe
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Photograph - Photography
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This photo of SSW 9714 is from the San Luis Obispo railroad station in 1996.
This EMD GP60 was built in 1990. and was the last locomotive to be delivered to the St. Louis Southwestern Railroad before that subsidiary of Southern Pacific dissolved in 1992. As of July of 2020 it was still in operation, repainted and renumbered as Union Pacific 1041.
St. Louis Southwestern Railway began just after the Civil War to provide Tyler, Texas with rail service. It took on the nickname "Cotton Belt" due to it's use in transporting cotton between Texas and St. Louis, Missouri. Over they years it had several owners before Southern Pacific took it over in 1930. It continued to operate as a subsidiary of the SP until 1992 when it was dissolved and completely integrated into Southern Pacific. It continued to wear the SSW paint until a few years after the merger with Union Pacific, when it was repainted in UP's Armour yellow.
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