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Owner: Western Pacific
Model:GE U30BBuilt As:WP 753 (U30B)
Serial Number:36453Order No:474-88050
Frame Number:1587-3Built:9/1967
Notes:re# to 3053 on 07/24/72
Other locos with this serial:  WP 3053(U30B) WP 753(U30B)
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WP 751
Title:  WP 751
Description:  The morning of October 27, 1967 finds Western Pccific's newest power resting between assignments at the Roper Yards of the D&RGW in Salt Lake City. The new U30B's are less than a month old but already are piling up the mineage between Oakland and Salt Lake City. These are Western Pacific's first order of GE road power, all five of which were shipped out of the Erie plant in the second half of September, 1967. Interesting features of the new U30B's are the EMD trucks, Westinghouse 26L air brakes, Pyle-National DCFV red and white oscillating lights located on the short nose* and fuel tanks of 3250Ýfallon capacity which enable the power to run all the way from Okland to Salt Lake City.
Photo Date:  10/27/1967  Upload Date: 8/10/2013 9:46:54 AM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  C.G. Heimerdinger, Jr.
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Track
Locomotives:  WP 751(U30B) WP 753(U30B)
Views:  2081   Comments: 3
WP 753 East at Oroville Yard
Title:  WP 753 East at Oroville Yard
Description:  Randy Curlin Collection; Note Southern Pacific local waiting to depart for Marysville to reach home rails. SP had trackage rights over WP to reach industries in Oroville. SP would be gone for good in the late 1970s
Photo Date:  9/26/1968  Upload Date: 9/17/2020 5:13:38 PM
Location:  Oroville, CA
Author:  Randy Curlin Collection
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  WP 753(U30B) WP 3510(GP40)
Views:  454   Comments: 2
WP 753 West at Oroville Depot
Title:  WP 753 West at Oroville Depot
Description:  Randy Curlin Collection
Photo Date:  3/5/1971  Upload Date: 11/8/2020 10:32:38 PM
Location:  Oroville, CA
Author:  Randy Curlin Collection
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  WP 753(U30B) WP 769(U30B) WP 752(U30B)
Views:  482   Comments: 2


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