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According to an article in "Diesel Era"(January/Febuary 1996 issue, I believe. SP converted several U33C's for mobile powerplant use late in their career's on the railroad, I believe that these were the last of their type on the roster. I also remember reading that one of the Canadian roads(CP, I think) modifies a number of SD40-2's to serve as backup power plants as part of Y2K planning. These still had full Locomotive function unlike the SP's which had most of their cab windows blanked out. <br /> The most amazing story I've read involved a Canadian National M420 which was actually run several hundred feet up a paved road under it's own power to supply a town in Quebec with emergency electricity after a massive ice storm four or five years back! Although I can't dig out the exact issues the item was reported in both Railpace and Railnews and there was a photo.
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