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5/4/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Southern Pacific
Model:Rebuilt EMD GP9RBuilt As:SP 5844 (GP9)
Serial Number:25144Order No:5595
Frame Number:5595-45Built:4/1959
Notes:ex-SP 3707, SP 5844 - rebuilt 04/76
Other locos with this serial:  SP 3834(GP9R)
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SP 3834
Title:  SP 3834
Description:  In 1982, Los Angeles experimented with commuter trains between downtown and Oxnard, in nearby Ventura County. Is was underfunded and poorly executed and, with average daily ridership of just 130 commuters per day, lasted only five months. On the evening of December 2, 1982, train #101 (Los Angeles to Oxnard) departs Union Station with leased Cal Train equipment - SP GP9R 3834 (ex-SP 3707, nee-SP 5844) with a full light package, and a pair of ex-SP gallery coaches (the second in full Cal Train colors). In 1992, a vastly improved commuter system, Metrolink, began service, which continues to this day.
Photo Date:  12/2/1982  Upload Date: 2/23/2012 12:28:18 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SP 3834(GP9R)
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