Since this series titled “Southern Pacific… we’ve got a problem” was on Altamont Press, I’ll try and continue the series from this post onwards, maybe someone could publish a book of the same name about this.
SP 8035 was built in September 1987, SP Class GF439-1, caught fire at Minco, Oklahoma, renumbered to UP 5644 on December 15, 1999, renumbered to UP 1835 on September 11, 2003, retired on January 11, 2013, sold to the National Railway Equipment Company (NREX) in 2014, and scrapped on October 15, 2014.
No one who did not read the Altamont Press thread before the demise of the Altamont Press forum (and its ridiculously antiquated excuse for thread management) is likely to understand why anyone would want a book about this. If you know a Wayback Machine link to that content, you should post it.
That looks like a fairly typical GE turbo fire; the engine was easily rebuilt afterwards and had about a decade and a half additional service life, which is long for a B-B unit in an age of 4400hp six-motor engines and radial steering trucks.
Luckily, I managed to archive some pieces of the posts here:
https://forum.trains.com/t/a-bunch-of-sp-train-wrecks-from-altamont-press-southern-pacific-we-got-a-problem-series/419654
I could dig though the Wayback machine, but that would take a while.
I was an Alameda County Fire Warden employee and would spend hours at this SP facility conversing with he SP Resident Agent. Saw lots of late era steam and 1st and 2nd generation diesels. My purpose? On Fire Patrol.
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Really? You must be very lucky.