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  • The First Turbo SD: Part 7

    June 17, 2011 - posted by Christopher Brimley - 2,623 views - 0 comments - 1 like
    by George Melvin UP SD24 402 is doing yard duty at East Los Angeles, CA, on April 18, 1982. Looking very good in the year of its retirement, it wears the 24 shield on the cab side and a smaller shield on the nose. Some of the red stripe on the side...

  • The First Turbo SD: Part 6

    June 7, 2011 - posted by Christopher Brimley - 2,504 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    by George Melvin With a 1,200-gallon fuel tank, air reservoir under the frame and lack of MU control, KCC 904 offered a distinctive look among SD24s. In green and yellow, the unit has the boxes for the MU hoses that it was never equipped with. The ...

  • The First Turbo SD: Part 5

    June 6, 2011 - posted by Christopher Brimley - 2,306 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    by George Melvin ICG SD20 2015 is fresh from the shop in the striking gray-and-orange ICG livery of the era. In fact, the stacks are capped with black plastic. It was rebuilt from SOU SD24 6342 and was the fourth ex-SOU unit finished in the SD20 pr...

  • The First Turbo SD: Part 4

    June 3, 2011 - posted by Christopher Brimley - 2,267 views - 0 comments - 2 likes
    by George Melvin SOU SD24 2512 heads up a quartet of three-year-old SD24s being serviced at Youngtown Yard in Louisville, KY, on March 10, 1963. Louisville was another north end destination for the SOU SD24 fleet during its prime. Note the addition...

  • The First Turbo SD: Part 3

    June 2, 2011 - posted by Christopher Brimley - 2,751 views - 2 comments - 0 likes
    by George Melvin A quartet of 11-month-old CB&Q SD24s wheel tonnage through Sandwich, IL, on April 24, 1960. The second unit is the ill-fated 508, the first of the series to be retired. Standard equipment included the high short hood, auxiliary...

  • The First Turbo SD: Part 2

    June 1, 2011 - posted by Christopher Brimley - 2,216 views - 1 comment - 1 like
    by George Melvin ATSF SD24 4508 shows off a fresh application of the yellow Warbonnet paint in this well-lit view at Argentine Yard on June 3, 1973. The MU boxes on the pilot have been modified, and this view shows the bit of sheet-metal overhang t...

  • The First Turbo SD: Part 1

    May 31, 2011 - posted by Christopher Brimley - 2,692 views - 0 comments - 1 like
    by George Melvin Santa Fe SD24 900, built in May 1959, was the first production SD24 after the single demonstrator/test-bed unit 5579 built ten months earlier in July 1958. Seen here at Barstow, CA, on November 5, 1969, with just over a decade of s...