12-05-2011, 08:38 PM
Gary, I noticed just before I retired that the U.P. had sold excess power to a leasing company, and then they leased back a Gp40-2 that was in U.P. colors with the reporting marks of the leasing company patched on the side of the Cab. I think they still had "Union Pacific" on the side of the long hood, but I retired in 2006 so I'm not trusting my memory completely on that point. You could patch a leasing company initials on the side of the cab of a U.P. loco, and run it as leased power on your short line. When U.P. merged with the S.P. right after the merger with the CNW they had a lot of excess power to get rid of. Some of the power was worn out old S.P. equipment as well as the old U.P. rebuilt Sw10's that U.P. had used for many years, but retired either just before or just after the mergers. Much of the locos went to the scrap yard, some of those old S.P. units burned out before they left U.P., but in the case of the Gp40-2 that I used to see in City Of Industry, the locomotive had just been shopped and received a fresh coat of U.P. armour yellow before they sold it.