Eastern Railroad Discussion > Website(s) for tracing locomotives history

Looking for a place or two, to trace some units history. Both,from when it was built,forward to the present day. And,from the present,back to when it was built. Thanks for your help,
Railburner



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https://heritageunits.com/

I don't think he means tracing it's movements, I believe he means it's actual history

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Yes...the locomotive's history (I went back and changed the title to "history" instead of heritage)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/01/14 12:20 by railburner.

The Jim Kerr guides (Official Locomotive Rosters & News) used to provide a good thumb nail for most of its listed second hand locomotives (originally the Tumbleweed Central #42, etc). And, rebuild dates, new classifications and so on.

One gold standard was the magazine Extra 2200 South, with its incredible unit by unit all time rosters. And that was in the pre-computer era.

Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> The Jim Kerr guides (Official Locomotive Rosters
> & News) used to provide a good thumb nail for most
> of its listed second hand locomotives (originally
> the Tumbleweed Central #42, etc). And, rebuild
> dates, new classifications and so on.
>
> One gold standard was the magazine Extra 2200
> South, with its incredible unit by unit all time
> rosters. And that was in the pre-computer era.


I sure do miss X2200, even the net can't replace that great magazine!

EL-SD45-3632 Wrote:
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> > One gold standard was the magazine Extra 2200
> > South, with its incredible unit by unit all
> time
> > rosters. And that was in the pre-computer era.
>
> I sure do miss X2200, even the net can't replace
> that great magazine!

Me, too! I saved issue 66 ( Jan - Mar 78) thru 131.

RR Pictures Archives has good information on all railroads. For CSXT, the Bull Sheet (http://www.bullsheet.com/news/csxrosterclass.html) is relatively complete. For NS, http://www.nsdash9.com/roster.html is up to date.

Gerry