Friday, August 4, 2017

New Walthers Mainline SD60s And SD60Ms

I see that the new Walthers SD60s and SD60Ms have arrived. I'm especially interested in the UP versions and will probably get at least one. These were common in California throughout their lives, and after the SP merger, they were even more so.

Both of the UP versions have yellow sill stripes that replaced the red ones starting about 2005. The standard-cab SD60s didn't last all that long ith yellow sill stripes. Here's a red sill stripe one from 2004:

Here's one with a yellow sill stripe in 2015, about the end of its career:

Oddly, the Walthers SD60 model has the lightning stripe scheme, but none of my standard-cab SD60 photos shows this.

The Walthgers SD60M has the late two-window cab. Here are some photos I've taken:

By this time, these locos were pretty much in local service in the Los Angeles area. A lot more of these had the lightning-stripe scheme, but oddly, Walthers has brought these in with the older straight gray band.

Here's a 2012 shot with a loco still mixed in with newer road power:

But here's one of the last I saw, on a Chicago-area mainfest:

This was in late 2015.

1 comment:

  1. Great photos John! I always like seeing photos of your area rail fanning. Thanks for posting!

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