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UPY 2653

Owner: Union Pacific Number:

UPY 2653

Built: June 2007 Serial Number:  
Genset History: UPY 2653 (2007-present) Converted at: Super Steel, Glenville, NY
       
Donor Unit: Union Pacific (UP) 121 (GE B23-7) Built: Oct. 1978
Build No.: 42159 Frame No.:  
Unit History: Missouri Pacific (MP) 2310    
  MP 4621 (Renumbered)    
  UP 121 (Merger, ret. May 2004)    

 

 
Notes:  
A

UP's first group of RP20BD locomoitves was built on the frames of retired B30-7 and B30-7A units, and are classed by UP as RP20GE. From photographic evidence.

B

UP's order for 80 RP20BD models and 18 RP20BH locomotives is funded by TERP. The units are to be depoloyed in San Antonio (9 units), Houston (43 units) and Fort Worth (46 units). From a Railpower press release and the release of a Union Pacific presentation on Genset switchers in Sacramento, CA July, 2006.

C

Previous unit numbers and histories supplied by Railpower, with histories from Don Strack's Modern Era UP Roster.

   
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