HO GEN SDP45 Locomotive w/DCC & SOUND, Legendary Liveries UP #1450

Union Pacific was well-known for its famous passenger trains, with such names as the Portland Rose, Overland Limited, and City of Los Angeles. UP was maintaining passenger service, and buying new passenger power, much later than most other roads. As the railroad consolidated its trains to save on operating costs, consist sizes swelled, often requiring 4-or-5-unit lashups of E-units to pull them. It’s conceivable that the Union Pacific could have ordered SDP45 locomotives to reduce the units needed to pull a train, vs. the E-units. Such units could have easily been adapted for freight service as the need arose. The road was already familiar with the EMD SD45, having ordered 50 units in 1968. These SDP45s, decked out with their “Dependable Transportation” slogans, would look great pulling the “City of Everywhere” or a hotshot intermodal train.