SP lettering

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Nieuweboer

Member since
April 2001
From: Netherlands
226 posts

SP lettering

Posted by Nieuweboer on Saturday, May 20, 2006 10:40 AM

Can anyone tell me the story behind the lettering "Sufferr n Pacific" on what appears to me to be a SD40-2 in SP bloody nose paint scheme?

West Coast S

Member since
February 2005
From: Los Angeles
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Posted by West Coast S on Saturday, May 20, 2006 3:53 PM

Sounds as if some employess tagged the unit to make a statement. SP steam shops did the same, scrawling messages on cylinders and other spots deriding the new diesel and who among us remembers when Pennsy steamers wore the motto "Junk the standard" A slap at EMD/Alco/Baldwin diesels that were rendering them obsolete, painted on the air tanks of dozens of locomotives..

Dave

SP the way it was in S scale

ericsp

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May 2015
5,134 posts

Posted by ericsp on Saturday, May 20, 2006 10:39 PM

It appear that the letters were changed (I don't know if technically that would be considered to be tagged). It seems like something like that happened in the mid to late 1990s to a SD40T-2. Below is a photograph of the SD40R (SP called it SD40-2) and a link to the page it came from.
http://espee.railfan.net/58_91.html

"No soup for you!" - Yev Kassem (from Seinfeld)

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