Based on information acquired while a daily MARC rider during this time period, out of the several ex-Metra/BN/CB&Q E-8s that MARC acquired, # 60 was, in fact, privately owned and LEASED to MARC by the group of individuals that actually owned it.
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Further research revealed info from RPN #166848 that #60 was, in fact, leased by MARC form a company called "OMNI" and that it had previously been an NJ Transit locomotive which would PROBABLY make it of either Pennsylvania or Southern origin as NJ Transit had E-8s from both those roads.
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THANKS to the "NJ TRANSIT ALL TIME LOCOMOTIVE ROSTER" (available on line) the real story of MARC #60 can be told. This unit is ACTUALLY former IC / ICG #4023, built 4/51, rebuilt by ICG in 1978 and was last known to be owned by OMNI Midwest. Unit is also last reported being stored in Minerva Ohio.
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So was it rebuilt with one or two prime movers? Were they 645 or 567 types?
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