Re: [CBQ] EMD SW1 9138 [1 Attachment]

["BRIAN PAUL EHNI bpehni@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

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It appears to be there. Toward the top of the view is a rectangular building, roughly oriented left to right, adjacent to highway 120. If you zoom in to the north side, right next to the building are two locomotive, one of which appears to be a switcher with a single stack.

Thanks!
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Brian Ehni

From: CB&Q Group <cbq@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of CB&Q Group <cbq@yahoogroups.com>
Reply-To: CB&Q Group <cbq@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 5:42 PM
To: CB&Q Group <cbq@yahoogroups.com>, CB&Q Group <cbq@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [CBQ] EMD SW1 9138

Louis, Hol, et al,

 

It appears that the Fort Collins/LaPorte plant was closed and dozed about 2005, in favor of the newly opened operation in Florence.  Hopefully, the SW1 was moved there.  The enclosed link shows their current plant and rails.

 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Holcim+Us+Inc/@38.3865126,-105.0186709,713m/data="">

 

Bob Arthur,

Princeton, NC

 

In a message dated 7/30/2015 5:40:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:

 

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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