MKT SW1200 #1(?)
Chessie/B&O SW1200 #???
Union Railroad SW1200’s ???
SP TEBC6’s (3 of em) The slugs that were also fuel tenders, one was #1601
NdeM SD40-2
2 burnt out CP Rail GP40’s
3 SP SW1500’s (2472, 2501, ???)
4 Amtrak F40PH’s
4 FNM G12’s
1 Maine Central U18B (In Shop)
2 Tranzrail G12’s
2 West Rail G12’s
4 Isralie Railways G12’s
1 unknown (Brazilian?) Locomotive on Flatcar, Obviously Narrow Guage)
UP 1501
F69PHAC Demo #451
and several former Progress Rail SD40 Rebuilds
There’s definetely a lot of really interesting things over there in Mt. Vernon. The NS line that runs through here also runs through Mt. Vernon, within maybe 400 feet of the NRE facility. Last year I also remember seeing a couple of old Denver & Rio Grande Western units over there. Also, a friend of mine, took pictures of a locomotive that had been painted for the new Evansville Western Railway, whose line also runs about 200 feet from the NRE facility.
Oh, also I want to add that recently I saw an old Amtrak unit sitting over there.
They were called TEBU, for Tractive Effort Booster Unit.
At any of NRE’s shops (Silvis, Mt. Vernon, Dixmoor) just about anything that was built in the United States might turn up. Dixmoor is much smaller but more than a few rarities and oddballs have turned up there.
From what I have read and heard about, the former Wisconsin Central GP7L’s that were on the Algoma Central, 1501-1508’s frames are there as well!
They won’t be there for long. NRE plans to use the frames in the building of 60 GS14B’s for UP.