Originally Posted by Ace:
Originally Posted by Number 90:
Something about that number is familiar. There were two SD9's in Peninsula commuter service after the Fairbanks-Morse Train Masters were retired. Was the 4450 one of the two?
Interesting ...
SP 4450 & 4451 were the only two SD9s to retain their steam generators after being rebuilt. Being that they were now the only two passenger equipped SD9s, they were transferred to the San Francisco-San Jose, California, commute service until Caltrain equipment arrived in 1985.
After commute service it did freight service out of the UP Yard in South San Francisco, CA. Here's a pic of it in the yard in 1994. Matt
