Yesterday (06-04-09) near University Jct in St Paul as I was watching a BNSF manifest train roll thru eastbound, there was a small blue locomotive about a half dozen cars from the rear. It was numbered as CIC 99.
I ran a trace on it, & it shows interchanged from the APNC to BNSF on 5-21-09. UMLER confirms it is owned by the CRANDIC, it was built in April of 1966 and it’s 45’ long and 14.5’ tall.
Does anybody know anything else about this little switcher? Did CRANDIC send it to Motive Power for some work & now it’s heading back? If it’s CRANDIC’s, what was it doing on the APNC in Albia? And finally, who was the original builder.
Albia = RELCO shops facility on the Appanoose County Railroad
http://www.relcolocomotives.com/about/albia.html
CRANDIC has multiple end-cab SW-=1500 EMD Switchers for sale on its website (#s 116-120) in colors other than the standard Crandic Yelllow (think UP)… Most are hanging around the yard in Cedar Rapids.
(were any of these SW-1500’s flood victims from last year?)
#99 was an SW-8 (wrecked) and replaced with an SW-1200 of the same number (IIRC) - The question is are their handrails along the long hood?
CRANDIC’s website says its current fleet is 8 MP-1500’s, and that it has 5 SW1500’s for sale, some of which were also built in 1966, but they are all numbered in the 100-teen’s. See:
http://crandic.com/EquipmentforSale/index.htm
Railpictures.net has one of CRANDIC 99 as an SW1200 in yellow &etc. from March 03, 2007 at:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=186172&nseq=0
From the other photos there of CRANDIC (= Cedar Rapids AND Iowa City railroad), it looks like all of the 90-series locos are SW-somethings (SW-9, SW1000, etc.)
Hope this is helpful.
Thanks Mud C. & Paul. the railpictures.net photo looks like the one, except for the color of course.