Past Additions -- 1999

Union Pacific and other locomotives and even a few freight cars from Fall of 1998.

Union Pacific 1717 GM EMD GP15AC diesel-electric locomotive and Union Pacific 1704 GM EMD GP15-1 diesel-electric locomotive in the Proviso rail yard near the Berkeley station. UP 1717, UP 1704, UP, GM EMD GP15AC, UP locomotives, Locomotives, GM EMD GP15-1, photographed on 20 September 1998 at Berkeley station by Harold A. Driscoll using a Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 digital camera [railfan/1998/09/98920p18.jpg] NEW 17 December 1999 This image size is ( 600 x 300; 33 KB ).

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UP 1717 was built in November 1982, GM EMD GP15AC, builder number 827016-03, Missouri Pacific 1717, to UP number on 9 Juanuary 1986. Not equipped with dynamic braking. [courtesy of Union Pacific Locomotive Directory, Don Strack, Withers Publishing, ISBN 1-881411-16-8, 1998]

UP 1717: yard switcher, EMD GP15-1, 1,500 hp. [courtesy of Roster of UPRR Locomotive Ownership, January 1, 1999.]

Equipment characteristics of UP 1717: AAR car type D112 (locomotive), external dimensions (length 54' 11", width 10' 4", height 15' 0"). [courtesy of BNSF Equiptment Characteristics, December 1999]

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