GP7 504 and SD45 947 (date and location unknown).
GP7 504 and SD45 947
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Location is Springfield, Missouri.
The locomotives are in Springfield Yard (SY). The yard is also known as Kansas Avenue Yard or West Yard. The locomotives are near the east of the diesel pocket track east of the Springfield Diesel Shop. The track in the lower foreground is the Clinton Subdivision or High Line. In the yard the track also provided access to the diesel fuel delivery track, West Shops complex, Benwood Yard and the tie treatment plant. Also on the route were the railroad’s panel track and continuous welded rail (CWR) or ribbon rail plants.
Visible between the units is one of the green fiberglass spray shields at the locomotive wash rack. The hoop shaped piping with multiple spray nozzles were paired with mercury vapor lights to illuminate the work area at night. One is just visible to the left of the cab of the SD45. The shields helped confine the wash and rinse cycles close to units, especially on windy days, as we moved them through the wash rack. The locomotive wash rack was near the east end on service track 2.
General Motors (GM) Electro-Motive Division (EMD) GP7L locomotive SLSF 504 was received by the railroad and placed in service on 2/26/1950. Frisco received the first production GP7 units delivered to any customer with Blomberg B trucks. The very first production EMD GP7s were delivered with Association of American Railroads (AAR) Type A switcher trucks to the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis (NC&StL) Railway, NC&StL 700-704.
Frisco’s first 25 GP7L units (SLSF 500-524) had physical characteristics of phase I production. Major characteristic of these units are the cab subbase does not extend along the walkway and there are full height doors below the forward radiator intakes behind the cab on the firemen’s side. Phase designations are independent of optional equipment like steam generators, dynamic brakes, horns and light packages. SLSF 504 was retired and used as trade in unit to EMD on 6/30/1977.
The Frisco rostered 49 General Motors (GM) Electro-Motive Division (EMD) SD45 locomotives. All our SD45 locomotives originally featured the large L-shaped cab front window on the engineer’s side. SLSF 947 is a SD45 phase IIb2 characteristics unit. It is one of only six (12.2%) of Frisco’s SD45 locomotives equipped with a Pyle National Gyralite oscillating warning light (SLSF 943-948).
View is looking southwest.
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Mark