Re: [CBQ] EMD SW1 9138

["Michael Woodruff mwoodruff54@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Yes, still extant as of last month, but at the Holcim plant at Portland, CO, near Canon City:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4239983

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largofl

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 5:39 PM, LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

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July 30, 2015

 

Hol - As our FW&D expert, may be you can shed a little light on the EMD SW1 in the attached image sent to me by retired Q/BN executive Earl Currie. This ex-Q switcher is reportedly still in existence working at a Holcim/Lafarge cement mill north of Fort Collins, CO. Hope it eventually finds home in a railroad museum.  

 

A brief Internet search reveals that EMD built it in June 1939 (construction number 899) as FW&D 604, it later became CB&Q 9138, leased to M&IB&B (Missouri & Illinois Bridge & Belt RR of Alton, IL) as their 100, then back to CB&Q 9138, then sold on September 24, 1970 to Dundee Cement near Hannibal, MO.

 

Might be one of the oldest, if not the oldest, existing Q diesel switchers still working on an industrial railroad. Can you add any thing to this information? As FW&D 604, was it among the first of their diesels when delivered in 1939? I assume it was a passenger station switcher. Correct? Best Regards - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL 

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