Past Additions -- 2000

Locomotives in local rail yards in December 1998, and a few cars. Union Pacific locomotives in Proviso yard. IHB and WC locomotives in Norpaul yard. IMRL locomotives at Bensenville (Illinois) yard.

Southern Pacific 8564 GM EMD SD40T-2 diesel-electric locomotive as darkness sets on the locomotive yard just east of the Locomotive Maintenance Facility in the Proviso (Melrose Park, Illinois) rail yard. SP 8564, SP, GM EMD SD40T-2, SP locomotives, Locomotives, photographed on 4 December 1998 at Proviso locomotive yard by Harold A. Driscoll using a Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 digital camera [railfan/1998/11/98a04i11.jpg] NEW 3 January 2000 This image size is ( 600 x 300; 31 KB ).

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SP 8564 was built in February 1979, GM EMD SD40T-2, builder number 786174-66. Union Pacific plans to renumber SP 8564 to UP 4505. [courtesy of Union Pacific Locomotive Directory, Don Strack, Withers Publishing, ISBN 1-881411-16-8, 1998]

SP 8564: freight locomotive, EMD SD40-2T, 3,000 hp. [courtesy of Roster of UPRR Locomotive Ownership, January 1, 1999.]

Equipment characteristics of SP 8564: AAR car type D125 (locomotive), external dimensions (length 70' 8", width 10' 3", height 16' 0"). [courtesy of BNSF Equiptment Characteristics, January 2000]

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