I’ve posted this in another forum, but it may feel more at home here
The oldest locomotive I’ve seen today is a UP switcher and slug working here in KC
What’s the oldest locomotive(s) you’ve seen today?
Russell
I cheated.My employer has a 1948 NW 2 which I see daily.
The oldest of the SF slug equipped yd switchers, in the BNSF 3800 series which are used mostly in KS yards, date to 1950
The rebuilt Geeps that they have in yard service. I once saw a 1951 GP7.
CP 2816 was built in the early thirties, but it’s service isn’t so regular.
Trainboy
This past Saturday, caught an KCS SW8/9 (maybe a 7) mated with an MP15AC pulling some cars through SF junction here in KC. I think it was doing a yard transfer run.
Take care,
Russell
a GE 70ton workin the steel mill in seattle
The New Haven FL-9 - still soldiering on after almost 50 years.[:D]
I’ve seen some IHB NW2’s in service about a year ago, they were almost 55 years old at the time.
Saw a couple of U boats pulling some orange MOW hoppers, presumably headed to the derailment site of a coal train on CSX’s C line at Newberry, South Carolina. I was too far away to tell if they were U33C’s or what but they were still in the Conrail colors.
A late 1940’s GE at a rolling mill.
The summer of 1951 I was an ROTC cadet at Fort Monmouth and was asked by MIT to take a test at Princeton University. I got my pass, went to Little Silver Staition on the New York and long Branch ( the joint PRR-Jersey Central line) to catch the doodlebug, diesel electric car, that made with a coach trailer, the run from Red Bank across to Monmouth Junction and Trenton. An E-6 Atlantic showed up with combine and coach. I could not have been happier with the subsitution!
SD-9s in MAINLINE service
When and where the SD-9’s in mainline service?
amtrak SWs
A Santa Fe GP9 on a local.
A SW7 on the Nicolet Badger Northerna few years back and I’ve seen quite a few of GP7s that have been on CNW, SOO, WSOR, FRV, WC.
Wisconsin was a rolling museum for old first generation stuff in the early to mid 90s.
Saw some F units on WICT in the early 90s, and saw a WSOR E unit pinch hitting in freight service 4 years ago, boy that was a surprise.
I’ve also seen the WC SW1 sitting, but not operating, and an old Alco switcher in Milwaukee. I think it works for the Sewerage Dept., but I’m not sure.
Eric
North Shore RR #364 rolls by my apartment in Lewisburg ¶ to and from a grain and feed place in Winfield about three times per week. It is a garden variety GM built switcher from the (1950’s?), repainted in Erie Lackawanna style colors… MCF
SD9’s on BNSF all the time at Willmar, MN. Seeing that orange and green is reminiscent of the old GN. Wonderful to see them.
Well I photographed a Milw NW-2 from 1939 in their yards along Hiawatha Ave in Mpls in about 1985. The MN&S had some c.1940 VO-660’s I saw as a kid, and a Baldwin DRS 6-6-1500 and an FM H-10-44 from about 1948-50. In 1969 I rode behind a 1947 GN E-unit on the Badger from Mpls MN to Superior WI.
I got to see many F units and GMD-1’s in Canada, and I saw an FP on Via Rail’s “The Canadian” in 1983. In the eighties the Soo and then CP ran GP-9s in front of house several times a week.
For recent times, I rode behind a Soo FP-7 and Erie Mining F-9 on a fantrip (the F-9 had just been retired in 2001 I believe, or was about to be retired, but other F-9s were still in service) in 2002.
Running a RS3m, not running, well, which ever engine at the B&O Museum is! 