Nostalgia & History > SS: let's make it a dozen SW1's

1 & 2 no info ... but he NYC lettering almost looks like it has red outlining

3. Cadillac & Lake City  Falcon, CO 5/31/86 by John Tudek
three more to follow

 

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4. Portola, CA 9/15/90 by Alan Miller
5. Baltimore 3/30/68 by George Menge
6. no info, but it's a BN unit



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/03/16 14:43 by valmont.

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Great variety and even better images.
Bob

SW1 - a neat little switcher!

love sw1s

Amazing that several survived into the BN merger period, one was the Seattle switcher for some time.

Out

Nice photos.  Thanks for sharing.

I'm pretty sure the photo of the Milwaukee Road SW1 was taken in Milwaukee near the passenger depot.

I like the Western Pacific SW1 the best.  They weren't ashamed of who they were and showed it with that large logo on the cab and extra blurb on the hood.  What other railroad ever tooted its horn that well? 
 

Whatever happened to your buddy Miller? He seems to have left Trainorders.

callum_out Wrote:

> Amazing that several survived into the BN merger
> period, one was the Seattle switcher for some
> time.

That particular unit (BN 70) survived into the BNSF merger period.  It was converted to burn propane and was the shop goat at Alliance, NE until 2001:

http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr1891.htm
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,51672
http://www.greatnorthernempire.net/index2.htm?GNEGNDieselRosterSW1.htm

valmont Wrote:

> 1 & 2 no info ... but he NYC lettering almost
> looks like it has red outlining

That's a scanner artifact that sometimes shows up at high-contrast edges when you try to lighten a scan of a dark slide.  The very bright white ends up bleeding over into the very dark black around it.  Note that the cab window shade and the bottom of the fuel tank also have "red outlining" for the same reason.

valmont Wrote:
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> 6. no info, but it's a BN unit

All,

BN 70, ex SLSF 10, exx BN 77, exxx GN 77.

J.