Another type of engine is gone

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sd-26 chris

sd-26 chris

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Some time this month Pan Am Railways scrapped the last SD-26 in the world. SD-26 #643 was cut up at the Railroads Heavy repair shops in Waterville Maine. I saw her in the shop a week before she got cut up, all of her parts stripped. I snapped a few shots in the shop (sorry can't post them). I also managed to get her front number boards.:D

The SD-26's started out life as a SD-24 built by EMD during 1958-59 for the Santa Fe Railroad. In the mid to 1970's the railroad did a re-build program on these locomotives. They upgraded them to a SD-26 type locomotive. If you are thinking " Why are there tubes on top of the engine?" This is due to the lack of space inside the carbody. During the early 1980's Santa Fe sold off a bunch of their SD-26's, thirty five of them were bought by Guilford Transportation Industries. While getting delivered one of them got destroyed in a wreck. If it made it to Guilford the number would have been ST #640. So in return Guilford got ex- WM SD-35 #614, the only
the only SD-35 on Guilford.





The numbers Guilford gave the batch of SD-26's was #615 to #649. For years they ran around in the Santa Fe paint (sometimes not renumbered) until they got the Guilford Gray & Orange.

If I'm wrong with some of this info feel free to correct me.;)
 
I remember taking pics of that unit in East Deerfield!

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So I guess then they've gone the way of the Dodo bird, the Ford Mercury, Lawn Darts, that bra clasp that could easily be "uncoupled by the 0-5-0?
Good looking pics Mark!
 


That's unfortunate. I caught the 621 and the 690 (an SD39) in Lowell, MA a while back. They've been retired off the roster for about a year now. From what I've heard, the prime movers have been disassembled and any and all spare parts are being kept in stock to keep the FP9s running for their OCS and the heritage GP9s. The GP35s that have been scrapped so far have met the same fate.

You're so lucky to be able to get those numberboards. I'd kill to have one of those in my living room! (Still kicking myself for not buying that Conrail numberboard at the train show)
 
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