Eastern Railroad Discussion > SCL 2024 - Restored and operating!

For the last several weeks, former SCL SD45 # 2024 (privately owned) has been residing at Southern Appalachia Railway Museum in Oak Ridge, TN.  Prior to being sent to Oak Ridge, the engine was painted in the basic SCL paint scheme (no numbers or letters) by Railway Service Contractors in Kansas City.  SARM's mechanical dept went over the engine and got it up and running and it made a couple of test runs on freight on the short line trackage over which SARM operates.  Numerous SARM members, with the help of the ACL/SAL Historical Society and a few other individuals, went through a painstaking process of doing diligent research and then having numbers and letters made to fit the original SCL specs.  This past weekend, several SARM members and friends of the museum got to work and applied the numbers, lettering and even the SCL's "Pulling For You!" slogan.  After the lettering was complete, a impromptu "test run" was made which ended up being an unscheduled working freight train, much to the photographers delight.  Since I was running the engine, I only got a couple of photo ops, but have added a photo of the freight run taken by SARM Member Mark Ragan.    While this engine is a little fuel hungry and won't see regular service on SARM's excursion trains this summer, it may on occasion make a freight run and will be used on occasion by SARM on excursions.   

Photo 1 is mine, taken at Oak Ridge, TN 2/6/16  
Photo  2 is by Mark Ragan.  2/6/16



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/07/16 20:40 by Rathole.

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Photo 2 by Mark Ragan

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Nice job !

Way cool!  Thanks!

Great to see this wonderful unit running again!
ALLEN

Absolutely fantastic!  Thanks tor sweating the details on this painstaking restoration. The 2024 looks better than new!

Cheers,
Harry

Three cheers for the restored SD45...and also a cheer that SARM has seen fit to preserve that high-hood U23B in the first photo. 

Looks right, tight, and out of sight!

Kudos to those who did their homework for this one.
 

I was never a fan of the "Thomas Rice Austerity" paint scheme for SCL... but this looks great!
Brings back many fine memories.
Thanks to the folks at SARM for all your hard work and attention to detail on this one.

Danny Harmon
Tampa

Love it! That first photo is beautiful, well diserved IOTD

PQM

This is great news, I know the folks at SARM nice people this should help make up for their ill fated L&N 1315.
Ed K. cp Laurel Run

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Nice looking unit. Congrats on IOTD.
Brian Stevens

Can't wait to see it in person!

That thing looks great!

- Jeff Carlson

Looks pretty good!  I had this unit several times when it worked for the IMRL. 
 

That's a pretty boss SD45!

Never a fan of the  black,white and yellow paint either.  I grew up with the purple and silver of the ACL but this is a nice looking unit compared to the newer stuff.  Thanks for posting.

CRS

Great locomotive, looks good.  What are those freight cars in photo 2?

gmojim

Mty containers to be loaded with waste bound for disposal/burial in Utah. 

gmojim Wrote:
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> Great locomotive, looks good.  What are those
> freight cars in photo 2?
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> gmojim



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/08/16 14:09 by Rathole.

NIIIIIICE....!!