I must have too much time on my hands, or I’m losing my mind, but I’ve started copying from my old tally books to an Excel spreadsheet, all the trains I’ve run.
My original idea was that I was curious as to how many times I’ve run the same units on different trains.
I’ve included make/model and unit numbers, but alot of things have changed since I started. Alot of the units are either retired, renumbered, or just plain gone so I can’t get all the information. I’m hoping some railfans can help me with models.
I am guessing that you will eventually post the numbers.
Here are the SP, SSW, and DRGW locomotives from 1990-1996. Obviously, most of these series were missing locomotives, espicially the older locomotive types, and locomotives were retired during this time. Also, the SP roster I have lists the GP40R as GP40-2, the SD40R as SD40-2, and the SD45R as SD45-2. Finally, SP 3102, 3103, and 3105 were renumber SP 2957-2959 in 1993 to avoid conflicts with DRGW locomotives.
[:D] If you like doing it, hang in there! Quite possibly your consolidated historical work records could form the “mother lode” of future research for some rail historian of the 20th/21st Centuries.
In an age in which computers are nullifying a lot of traditional information-gathering, and older forms of paper-based data which might be quite useful to keep in paper format are nonethless getting trashed by RR corporations operating under space-saving imperatives (and perhaps impervious to the importance of history!), you might well be doing something pretty unique.
And if you ever want to dictate your memoirs, there’s nothing better than a good solid stack of facts to back up your recollection.
Don’t do it “just” for posterity. But the information you have strikes me as exactly the kind of stuff that is shamelessly undervalued today – and would be a shame to be without tomorrow.
Well I appreciate it. I hope this will help anyone who wants to use it. It definitely shows how we in El Paso went from running almost entirely SP/SSW units to running the yellow dogs, but I do need some help. I need help identifying some of the UP units before they all became SD70M’s and C44AC’s. Can anyone point me in the right direction? When I go to UP’s website the unit’s are either no longer there or are a new unit.
I do not know as much about UP locomotives as I do about SP locomotives, but I think the list below is correct for 1997.
18-Jun LKC-77 UP 5528 26 LDS/ 26 MTY’S GP40-2
19-Jun LKC-78 UP 5516 GP40-2
20-Jun ZMELB-25 SSW 9634 56 LDS 3657 3477’ GM GP60
29-Jun MFWODX-29 UP 9287 28 LDS/ 41 MTY’S 4750 4114’ 8-40C
3-Jul ZMELB-02 UP 4205 38 LDS/ 19 MTY’S 2598 3625’ SD40-2(?)
17-Jul MODFW-16 UP 5969 70/43 6129 6876’ GP60
17-Jul MODFW-16 UP 4252 SD40-2(?)
18-Jul MFWTUX-14 UP 5842 GP60
18-Jul MFWTUX-14 UP 9245 GE 8-40C
22-Aug MFWWC-22 UP 4121 SD40-2(?)
26-Aug MHOWC-23 UP 4131 SD40-2(?)
26-Aug MHOWC-23 UP 9238 GE 8-40C
28-Aug IEWLBB-26 UP 5558 GM GP40-2
31-Aug MWCFW-29 UP 5989 GP60
6-Sep ZMELB-04 SP 8362 55/0 3346 4121’ GM SD40T-2
6-Sep MWCFW-03 SP 8132 28/57 4772 5102’ GE C44-9W
6-Sep MWCFW-03 SP 8127 GE C44-9W
Very generally, most of the NS units on your last list are EMD’s. GE’s will be numbered in the 8 & 9 thousands. If you need specifics, send me a list and I’ll try to help.
BTW, NS has some good seats. Beats the heck out of those “Pleather” seats some roads like UP use!
Oh NO, I couldn’t disagree with you more. Even the old black high backs were better then NS’. At least when the dispatcher was screwing you, you could sleep through a majority of it.
Now the old SP bar stool’s were uncomfortible! I kick myself for not grapping a few of those after the merger when they were retiring those old units. They had the old setting sun emblem pressed into them. They would have been great at our bar!