Charlie,
All of the first eight shovel nose Zephyrs had 201/ 201A engines in them up to
the end of their service. No. 9900 had at least two different engine during its
operation. Its original 201 was removed at some point in time and returned to
EMD. The story is in the Bulletin, but as I recall, it was installed in a
switcher locomotive. When that locomotive was traded in years later, someone
was checking the serial number and realized that it was the original 9900
engine. Eventually, it was cosmetically restored and donated to the Smithsonian
Museum in Washington, DC. Considering the damage when PZ encountered the mikado
at Hamburg, IA, it may have had more than two different 201s.
I am aware of no evidence that any of the other units were ever modified with a
different engine other than a 201. It is, however, possible that the engines
were changed around between units as they were overhauled at West Burlington.
One question that I have concerns the Mark Twain Zephyr. Several articles that
I have read indicate that the RR removed the engine before selling the train to
the first private owner. However, sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s, I
saw the MTZ at the Threshermen’s park in Mt. Pleasant, IA.I would swear that,
at that time, both the engine and the generator were still in the power car. I
thought that I had a photo of it, but I haven’t found it so far. Other than
scrap value, I am not sure why the RR would want to remove an obsolete engine
from the locomotive.
It will be interesting to see how the Wisconsin Great Northern installs the
6-567C engine into the carbody of the MTZ. My recollection is that the original
201A was an in line six. The 6-567C engine from the SW600 is a standard
configuration V-6. There wasn’t much room in the Zephyr carbodies for the
original engine, let alone a V type engine.
Bill Barber
Gravois Mills, MO
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