numberboards: on SD7's, the lights are centered, and on SD9's, they are off to one side. This distinction does not work with the four-axle versions, as both GP7's and GP9's had the lights off to one side.

This locomotive was built as EMD SD7 demonstrator 991 and eventually sold to B&O as their 760. It was renumbered 1826 and made it to the CSX merger. The last history I have been able to find is it being in Huntington, WV in the mid - 1980s. Can anybody add anything

PHall Wrote: ----- > IIRC Turlock is BUGX's home. BUGX has become almost a "mark of convenience" of sorts, as the company has acquired several historic locomotives that are bound from Point A to B with neither even being in California, despite the company being located there.

It started life as EMD's SD7 demonstrator, 990. After EMD was done with it the SP acquired it. It had several features left over from it's demo duties that the SP didn't bother to change: Leslie A200 horns, a winterazation hatch, steam generator, dual controls (hence the rear "feathers"), and rather than vents on the access doors along the ...

1. C&NW EMD SD7 300 built Dec. 1952 as M&StL 852, received chopped short hood by C&NW before 1968, and seen in Marshalltown, IA Aug. 3, 1968. Bill Kuba photo, Iowa Chapter NRHS collection 2. C&NW EMD SD7 301 (2nd) built Dec. 1952 as M&StL 952, received chopped short hood by C&NW before 1968, and seen in Marshalltown, IA Oct. 16, 1971.

1. MILW SD7 522 built October 1953 and photoed July 6, 1984 by Larry Anglund. 2. MILW SD9 500 built January 1954 and photoed in Savanna, IL May 21, 1978 by Larry Anglund. 3. MILW SD9 508 built February 1954 as MILW 2234 and photoed in Savanna, IL May 21, 1978 by Larry

1. Conrail SD7-6998 & caboose 18664 are getting ready to do some switching. Late morning on 1/27/80 in Bethlehem, PA. 2. Seen from the Rt. 53 overpass. Conrail SD45s-6149 & 6192 are pushing hard on an E/B manifest. The town of Gallitzen can be seen in the distance. 2:25PM o

In addition to the SP SD9's, there were quite a bunch of boiler-equipped SD7's still rolling around in California during the 1970's. SP #1442 provides an example of its class near Millbrae, CA as it leads a southbound freight from Bayshore in 1974. -- …

1. SP SD7 5322 at Taylor Yard, Los Angeles. 6/1/63 2. SP F7u/F9 6378 on Train #90 at Glendale station, CA 6/3/59 3. SP Alco PA 6063 (x-TNO 204) at Los Angeles. 4/3/60 A red pilot to boot! Cool stuff in the background too. The silver top peeking through the two units at the left is one of the two former Cotton Belt PAs, 6067-8.

I'm modeling a Burlington (Chinese red) EMD SD7 in HO scale. The loco will have Mars lights at both ends, where the light fixture is mounted so that it stands above the top of the locomotive roof line. Does anyone make a ready-made Mars light bracket for CB&Q early SDs that would