UP 5005

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Bernie Feltman	General	Yesteryear's widecab model	11/6/2009 6:58:08 AM

Joseph Yarbrough	General	The more I look through your album S.L., the more I am impressed. Very nice collection S.L. Thanks for sharing!	11/6/2009 9:07:56 AM

Joseph Yarbrough	General	The GE U50s lived one of the shortest lives of any mainline road locomotive. The were all retired after just seven years of service. The GE U50s were plagued with electrical and mechanical problems. Several major changes were made to the U50 including the rerouting of primary wiring, replacing aluminum wiring with copper wiring, and the installation of heat sensors to react to high wire temperatures. As a result, all U50s were sidelined and all of them were sold to Erman Corporation (Turner, KS) for scrap.	11/6/2009 9:13:10 AM

Joseph Yarbrough	General	A correction to my previous statement: All GE U50s were sold to Erman Corporation for scrap between May 1977 and June 1978, with the exception of UP 5005 which was scrapped by UP at Omaha, NE August 1977.	11/6/2009 9:16:52 AM

UP 5005
Never thought I would see one of these things.
Date: 10/23/1972	Location: Seattle, WA Map	Views: 1211	Collection Of: S.L. Dixon
Locomotives: UP 5005(U50C)			Author: S.L. Dixon

Picture Categories: Roster		This picture is part of album: UP Argo Yard Seattle Wa. 1971-1974

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