Western Railroad Discussion > UP SD70's that were once SP SD70's question

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Was curious the numbers of the all the SD70's the SP owned and what those numbers are on the UP. The 3985 is taken from the SD70 number pool for good reason but I was under the impression that the SP SD70's went from UP 3986 to UP 3999. But now I am reading there are more and I was wondering how low the numbers go on the UP roster along with all the former SP numbers

Thanks in advance
SD 

I may be misunderstanding your question, but SP had only 25 SD70M's, and they became 3974 thru 3999, with the exclusion of #3985, in UP numbers.

ok so they go as low as UP 3974 and not what i thought was the lowest number of 3986

Thanks

I think this is the right thread to post a collection of ex-SP SD70Ms I caught in 2013. They started appearing when the deadlines started disappearing, which would be around early autumn.

I caught the "class unit" UP 3974 (ex-SP 9800) trailing on what I believe was the MFRRV, but the clip is not included here. I'll try to post that later in another report.

The ex-SP SD70Ms are leaders for MRVSJ (Roseville to San Jose) on all the clips in this video:

- UP 3997 (SP 9822) leading at Alviso.
- UP 3978/3988 (SP 9804/9813) leading at west end of Tracy.
- UP 3975/3997 (SP 9801/9822) at Fremont Centerville.
- UP 3997 again at south end of Alviso. (entire train is shown)

Following link is when the UP 3978 led the MRVSJ with a transformer load in the train:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,3318662

I simply stumbled onto the MRVSJs as part of my routine train hunting, so I didn't go out of my way to nab the ex-SP SD70Ms, but I made sure to document as many as I could.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/14/15 22:14 by cchan006.

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Were all former SP SD70ms repainted UP colors or some just renumbered?

dougd Wrote:
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> Were all former SP SD70ms repainted UP colors or
> some just renumbered?


All.

dougd Wrote:

> Were all former SP SD70ms repainted UP colors or
> some just renumbered?

Some were just patched initially - SP 9815 was among UP's first ever patch jobs when it became UP 3990 in March 2001. 

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3625373

However, all the SP SD70M's have since been given full UP paint jobs.

Most of these units are distiguishable by slightly weird paint jobs like 3997 has, and all are distinguishable by the short platform to nose handrails.