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Steve J Rush's Collection
 
5/2/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Soo Line
Model:EMD F7ABuilt As:SOO 2203A (F7A)
Serial Number:7409Order No:E1053
Frame Number:E1053-A7Built:6/1949
Notes:Blt 6/49, Ret. 3/80, To EMD
Other locos with this serial:  SOO 2203a(F7A)
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SOO 2203A &556
Title:  SOO 2203A &556
Description:  white class lamps are displayed for "an extra train"! That is one which either just arrived or one that is soon to depart. Maybe both are true!
Photo Date:  6/7/1967  Upload Date: 7/31/2010 2:48:04 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 2203a(F7A) SOO 556(GP9)
Views:  890   Comments: 3
SOO 556 &2203A
Title:  SOO 556 &2203A
Description:  GP9's and F7A's mixed--- I loved it! Note the black air tanks on the top of the engine so as to make more room under the frame for a bigger fuel tank!
Photo Date:  6/7/1967  Upload Date: 7/31/2010 2:50:40 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 556(GP9) SOO 2203a(F7A)
Views:  985   Comments: 0
31 cents a gallon
Title:  31 cents a gallon
Description:  It was probably not June 10th, 1968 because that was my operators date on the Milwaukee Road and I was in La Crosse, Wisconsin taking the "rules class" with the Chief Dispatcher back in those days when there was such a person! It was a time when GP9s ran together with F7As and/ or Bs--- and when GP30s & GP35s were new! AND before I forget it was also when gas was 31cents a gallon! That must have been nice you say?! Well considering that people then maybe made 2 or 3 dollars an hour and 5 cents worth of Jelly Beans would last all day--- I suppose all things are relative! But was it better than?! Yes and No is perhaps the correct answer!
Photo Date:  6/10/1968  Upload Date: 7/30/2010 4:03:59 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 2203a(F7A) SOO 556(GP9) SOO 717(GP30)
Views:  1065   Comments: 1


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