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• Comment: Per my previous comment, there are only passing mentions of the locomotive in the sources. Fails GNG. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 22:36, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

• Comment: The accident is what is notable, not the locomotive that is wholly unremarkable apart from being involved in said accident. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 01:40, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

Southern Pacific 7551 was an EMD SD45/EMD SD45R diesel locomotive originally built in December of 1968 by the General Motors Electro-Motive Division for the Southern Pacific Railroad.

History

Construction and delivery

Southern Pacific 7551 was constructed in 1968 by the General Motors Electro-Motive Division and began its life as Southern Pacific #8985 and it was delivered to the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1969 and classified by the Southern Pacific as a EF636-4.

Rebuild and paint schemes

Then, in August of 1985, Southern Pacific #8985 was later rebuilt at the Southern Pacific's Sacramento Shops in Sacramento, California under the Southern Pacific's M-99 rebuild program into an EMD SD45R and renumbered as #7551 and even reclassified as a EF636R-3. Upon being delivered in 1968 as #8985, the locomotive was originally painted in the Southern Pacific's "Bloody Nose" livery, but would later be painted into the "Kodachrome" livery of the proposed merger between Southern Pacific and Santa Fe and would be the first locomotive on the Southern Pacific to ever receive the SPSF "Kodachrome" livery.

Last run and disposition

On May 12th, 1989, Southern Pacific #7551 was hooked on Southern Pacific freight train SP 7551 East (computer symbol 1 MJLBP-11) that was transporting trona, which had a total of 69 open top hopper cars.

But somehow, while the train was being set up at the Mojave Rail Yard in Mojave, California, the locomotive wouldn't start and it was unknown why it couldn't start nor if it was fixable so they had to borrow EMD SD40T-2 #8278 out of Mojave Yard to become the new leader of SP 7551 East.

However, the locomotive along with SD45R #7549, SD40T-2 #8278 and SD45T-2 #9340 would be destroyed in a rail crash when SP 7551 East had ran away down the Cajon Pass, derailed and crashed into a set of houses at Duffy Street in San Bernardino, California.

After the accident, #7551 was deemed a total loss and was scrapped on site.

References

1. ^ Signor (2005), p. 23
2. ^ Shine, Joseph W. (1988). Southern Pacific Motive Power Pictorial 1987/88 - The Interim Years (1st ed.). Four-Ways West Publications. p. 19. ISBN 9780961687434.
3. wrp_admin (2021-06-17). "SPSF: Shouldn't Paint So Fast". Railfan & Railroad Magazine. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
4. "SP Rebuild Programs". utahrails.net. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
5. Shippen (1999), p. 31
6. Railmodel Journal: Volume 7, No. 3 - August 1995. Golden Bell Press. 1995. p. 28.
7. ^ Harvey (2015), p. 14-15
8. ^ Bibel (2012), p. 215
9. Main (1994), p. 3

Further reading

• Shippen, Bill (1995). Southern Pacific 1995 Motive Power Annual (1st ed.). Four Ways West Publications. ISBN 9781885614087.
• Strapac, Joseph (2007). Southern Pacific Diesel Locomotive Compendium, Vol. 2: Post-1965 SP and Cotton Belt Numbers, Union Pacific Transition (1st ed.). Shade Tree Books. ISBN 9780930742324.
• Shippen, Bill (1999). Southern Pacific in Transition. Four Ways West Publications. ISBN 1885614268.
• Main, Jeremy (1994). Quality Wars: The Triumphs and Defeats of American Business - Jeremy Main - Google Books. Free Press. ISBN 0029166845.
• Derailment of Southern Pacific Transportation Company Freight Train on May 12, 1989 and Subsequent Rupture of Calnev Petroleum Pipeline, May 25, 1989, San Bernardino, California. National Transportation Safety Board. 1990.
• Bibel, George (2012). Train Wreck: The Forensics of Rail Disasters. John Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-0652-7.
• Harvey, Jean (2015). Complex Service Delivery Processes - Strategy to Operations. ASQ Quality Press. ISBN 978-0873899161.
• Signor, John (2005). SP Trainline - Issues 83-93. Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society.

External links

• Pictures of SP 7551

Category:Locomotives involved in accidents Category:Locomotives Category:Scrapped locomotives Category:Diesel-electric locomotives Category:Electro-Motive Diesel locomotives Category:C-C locomotives Category:Diesel-electric locomotives of the United States Category:Railway locomotives introduced in 1968 Category:Diesel locomotives of the United States Category:Electro-Motive Division locomotives Category:Diesel locomotives

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