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Yolo Saturday, 2015


 



25 Feb 2015

Califormia Northern 1570 at Yolo, California. The unit is a GP15-1. This line is the former SP West Valley Sub, running north from Davis.

The train is heading south, and approaching a green SP era searchlight signal.



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Mike Tisdale


 

Mike, are these the same California Northern GP15-1s that have been on the line since the 1990s, originally in the former green/white paint scheme, prior to the Orange Borg?

Dave Saums
Amesbury MA


 

Yes, Dave, they are.? I think they still have the CNW nose bells.?

Mike Tisdale?


On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 4:38 PM, Dave Saums
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Mike, are these the same California Northern GP15-1s that have been on the line since the 1990s, originally in the former green/white paint scheme, prior to the Orange Borg?

Dave Saums
Amesbury MA


 

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Mike, thanks.? I always liked the GP15-1, especially the big order placed by Conrail.? Those appeared in a number of locations around New York State upon delivery.

I went out of my way to find and photograph the California Northern units around Petaluma and south.? They were quite photogenic.

Dave Saums.

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The old green and cream paint scheme was a classic, and looked good on anything.??

G&W orange is not a bad paint job...it is just that there is a lot of it on various lines.??

Mike Tisdale
On Saturday, February 26, 2022, 04:59:49 AM PST, Dave Saums <dsaums@...> wrote:


Mike, thanks.? I always liked the GP15-1, especially the big order placed by Conrail.? Those appeared in a number of locations around New York State upon delivery.

I went out of my way to find and photograph the California Northern units around Petaluma and south.? They were quite photogenic.

Dave Saums.

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Mike, yes, of course.? Painfully obvious.? Here in New England,xwe are about to get even more of it, with Berkshire & Eastern, after April.? That is the new operator of the former Boston & Maine mainline through Hoosac Tunnel, per the CSX acquisition proposal for Pan Am.? The Borg spreads even further....

Only time will tell if the B&E proposal proves to be workable, or simply another farce leading to? the death of the second major mainline across all of Massachusetts.

Dave Saums
Amesbury MA

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Subject: Re: [ObservationCar] Yolo Saturday, 2015
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The old green and cream paint scheme was a classic, and looked good on anything.??

G&W orange is not a bad paint job...it is just that there is a lot of it on various lines.??

Mike Tisdale
On Saturday, February 26, 2022, 04:59:49 AM PST, Dave Saums <dsaums@...> wrote:


Mike, thanks.? I always liked the GP15-1, especially the big order placed by Conrail.? Those appeared in a number of locations around New York State upon delivery.

I went out of my way to find and photograph the California Northern units around Petaluma and south.? They were quite photogenic.

Dave Saums.

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