Take notes ... This gets complicated ... A pair of former Southern Pacific diesels are ready for their next assignment in Tucumcari, New Mexico. "South Pacific" 7666 is a GP40-2, but the more interesting unit is Union Pacific 2677: Built in December 1966 as Atlantic Coast Line SD45 1032, it became Seaboard Coast Line 2008 when the ACL and SAL merged. SCL later renumbered it 8908 as part of the Family Lines unified numbering system. It retained the number 8908 when the Family Lines railroads were officially merged into the Seaboard System, and also when SBD merged with the Chessie System roads, making it CSXT 8908. CSX eventually sold it to VMV (where it kept the same number), who unloaded it to MK Rail Corporation. MK rebuilt it as an "SD40M-2," and Southern Pacific acquired it, along with 132 others, in 1993. SP numbered this engine 8601, and with the SP/UP merger in 1996, it became Union Pacific 2677.
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just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
