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917
917
(formerly 917-D)
 
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917-D, 917-C, 917-B and 917-A at EMD plant pose for builders photo.
917-D was built in January 1950 with builder's number 8971.
(Rob Sarberenyi collecion)

917 is fresh out of the paint shop in Stockton in February, 1978. Alan Barret photo.
Paint shop crew (including Art Avilar on left) poses next to 917 soon after finishing the repaint project.


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917 westbound into Milpitas during the early 70's. This was the first f-unit
to receive Perlaman green. This is the early version of that scheme.
(Steve Schmollinger photo)

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917 at her first new home in Rio Vista, Ca at the Western Railway Museum.
917, former WP GP7 712 and several other WP graduates were later traded  and moved
to the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola.
She is now part of the Run A Locomotive program.
(Dan Furtado photo)


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Information sources:

Western Pacific's Diesel Years by Joseph Strapac

D-Day on the Western Pacific by Virgil Staff

California's Final Four F's (Nov 1978 Trains Magazine) by Ted Benson