Pittsburgh & Lake Erie MP15DC No. 1595 is in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, on April 23, 1983. The unit was built by EMD in May 1975. It would later go to work for Amtrak where it had roster number 538.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Posts Tagged ‘EMD switchers’
Working for the P&LE
April 30, 2023Off to a New Life
September 7, 2022
Former Conrail SW1500 No. 9566 is off to a new assignment. Its Conrail markings have been painted over and a line drawn through its roster number indicates it has been retired by Conrail. Next to it is SD40-2 No. 6456. The train is passing through Berea on the Chicago Line in May 1997.
Photograph by Craig Sanders
An ABC 1501 Kind of Day
April 7, 2022
Akron Barberton Cluster SW1500 No. 1501 is eastbound heading for the yard in Barberton on Nov. 12, 2021. The unit was once on the Conrail motive power roster. It was built in June 1966 by EMD.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
One Day in Ludlow, Kentucky
December 12, 2021
The wayback machine has landed us in Ludlow, Kentucky, where we admire Southern Railway switchers sitting at the engine facility on Dec. 28, 1972. Wouldn’t you like a Christmas present of time travel to go back and capture scenes such as this one? Of course you would.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
B&O Switcher in Benwood
September 24, 2021
Baltimore & Ohio SW900 No. 9418 is between assignments in Benwood, West Virginia, on Nov. 25, 1972. The EMD product was built in 1955.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Switcher Sunday: Conrail Pair in Alliance
July 4, 2021
Conrail 8865 and 9095 are back-to-back in Alliance on Aug. 19, 1986. No. 8865 is an SW7 while the 9095 is an SW9. They are sitting in the yard adjacent to the Fort Wayne Line where it crosses and connects with the Cleveland Line.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Museum to Add New Cab to Switcher
April 19, 2021An Indiana railroad museum plans to restore a badly damaged SW1 switch engine that lost its cab after a truck carrying it struck a low bridge in 2018.
The Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum has found a replacement cab that will be mounted on former Monon DS-50.
The locomotive’s original cab was destroyed after striking the bridge in Logansport, Indiana, in December 2018.
The DS-50 was recently moved to the museum in North Judson after sitting in Logansport for more than two years.
“We’ve been working on saving this locomotive for almost a year now,” museum president Todd Flanigan said in a statement.
“There’s no way for me to fully express my gratitude to everyone involved in making this project a reality.”
The locomotive is not owned by the museum but its owner has agreed to the rebuild project.
The museum also plans to restore a former Monon transfer caboose, No. 81551, which was built in the railroad’s Lafayette, Indiana, shops in 1946.
Night Switcher
March 17, 2021
The photographer’s memory is that he had help from Paul Woodring in making this image of Conrail NW2 No. 9187 in Massilon on March 5, 1983. The switcher was built in October 1948 for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The unit was later sold to the Pennsylvania Northeast Railroad Authority and rebuilt as an NW2R.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Iowa Short Line Buys Flats Industrial Switcher
December 21, 2020An Iowa short line railroad has acquired an EMD switch engine from the Flats Industrial Railroad of Cleveland.
The SW9m, No. 1202, has been purchased by the Davenport Industrial Railroad.
The unit was built in May 1951 for the Lehigh Valley where it worked until 1974.
It was later owned by U.S. Steel, which assigned it to its Youngstown & Northern property, and by the Lake Terminal Railroad.
The late Arthur Fournier acquired the 1202 in 1999 for use on his Flats Industrial Railroad.
It had been rebuilt in 1995 during its time on the Lake Terminal.
The switcher is expected to be moved to Iowa sometime this winter.
A recent report incorrectly stated the unit had been moved by the Flats Industrial in preparation for movement.
In fact, that move was done so that some brake rigging repair could be performed on the locomotive.
The Flats Industrial, which is located in downtown Cleveland, is idle these days due to lack of business
Lehigh Valley Alcos in Sayre
August 28, 2020
Yesterday on Akron Railroads, Ed Ribinskas described how he thought he was going to get double heritage unit combination of the Lehigh Valley and Reading heritage units of Norfolk Southern.
But the LV H unit was pulled off the motive power consist in Bellevue so Ed had to settle for just getting the Reading.
Let’s use the wayback machine to not only take a trip back in time but also across the border into Pennsylvania in search of actual LV heritage.
In the top photograph, we’ve arrived in Sayre, Pennsylvania, which is near the border with New York and 18 miles away from Elmira.
Sayre was an important point on the Lehigh Valley, which built a large locomotive shop there in 1904.
A pair of Alco C420s, Nos. 405 and 414, sit at the engine facility on July 24, 1973.
In the bottom image, we moved down the line to find LV EMD SW8 No. 262 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 12, 1973.
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