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In 1996, Ft Worth & Western's expanding traffic base forced the railroad to go shopping for some extra power to supplement the 4299. Help soon arrived in the form of GP7 1500, illustrated here on a Tarantula passenger train operating between Grapevine and the Ft Worth Stockyards on December 10, 1996. This paint scheme, which appears to have been a VMV / " Paducah-bilt" application, did not last long on the FWWR; the unit was soon repainted in FWWR's blue and yellow scheme.

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