It may look like an Erie Lackawanna locomotive, but in reality this F7A was originally built in February 1953 for the Bessemer & Lake Erie.
After its retirement from the B&LE it was refurbished in Kent and sent to Michigan where it pulled the Michigan Star Clipper dinner train in Walled Lake, which was operated by Coe Rail.
After Coe Rail folded, the unit became the property of Michigan Air Line Railway. Online reports indicate that the F7 was stored for several years at a CSX yard in Lansing, Michigan.
Another report had it owned by the Stourbridge Line in Pennsylvania, but it is not clear if it ever made it there.
When I caught up with the 725 it was carrying Horizon Rail identification letters and was sitting at the former Baltimore & Ohio roundhouse in Cleveland.
Horizon Rail uses the facility, now operated by the Midwest Railway Preservation Society to rebuild locomotives that it leases to various railroads.
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