Re: [CBQ] EMD SW1 9138

["Michael Matalis mmatalis@sprynet.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

For those you you who are members of Trainorders, photos were posted yesterday of the engine being picked up at Ft Collins by the UP local for movement to its new home.

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,3806515

Thank you kindly,

Michael Matalis

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On Jul 30, 2015, at 5:27 PM, Michael Woodruff mwoodruff54@gmail.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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

msw

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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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