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| name=Southern Pacific 5623 |
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| image=NCRyTrain2006.jpg |
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| caption=5623 pulls a passenger train on the ] |
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| gauge={{track gauge|ussg|lk=on}} |
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| builddate=1955 |
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| fleetnumbers=5623, renum 3005, renum 3189 |
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| retiredate=1991 |
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| restoredate=1993 |
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| disposition=operated in occasional excursion service |
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] (SP) locomotive number '''5623''' is a passenger service-equipped "torpedo boat" version of an ] ], built in 1955. SP 5623 featured a ], dual control stands, and was delivered in the "black widow" paint scheme. |
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SP 5623's first assignments were passenger trains in ], and then spent the rest of its passenger service career in the ], pulling such trains as the ''Senator,'' ''Sacramento Daylight,'' ''Del Monte,'' and the ]s. SP 5623 was renumbered 3005 and painted into the grey and scarlet "bloody nose" paint scheme in 1966. After ] assumed intercity passenger train service in 1971, SP 5623 (then numbered 3005) and all other SP passenger locomotives were assigned only to the SF Peninsula commuter trains. It was renumbered 3189 in 1977 after being rebuilt as a part of the SP's GRIP program. In 1985, it was displaced by the arrival of ] equipment. It was then placed into local freight service for the rest of its regular service years. |
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SP 5623 was retired in 1991, and was purchased from a scrap dealer in 1992 by Errol Ohman and Howard Wise. The pair restored the locomotive and repainted it into its original "black widow" paint scheme and its original number (5623) in 1993. SP 5623 spent most of the 1990s working for the ]. It traveled to the ] in ] for the "Mini-Railfair" in 1995 and appeared in a ] commercial in 1997. It then traveled with steam locomotive ] to "Railfair '99" in Sacramento, and in January 2005, it moved to the ] in ], where it is used in occasional ]. |
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== References == |
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* {{cite web| url=http://www.ncry.org/| title=Home| website=Niles Canyon Railway}}{{full|date=December 2016}} |
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* {{cite web| url=http://www.trainweb.org/sp5623/| title=Southern Pacific GP9 5623| website=Trainweb| date=April 30, 2014}} |
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