We never expected to find one of these. They may have been relative "dogs" but they had nice lines and great sound. This one is on a transfer run.
Among the few but not as few as GP-40s, at least until the Milwaukee folded. That was a great paint scheme as far as I'm concerned.
Alco trade-in trucks, no D/B, a classic, sitting on a radial track of a long demolished roundhouse.
Date approximate. Facility is now history. Must be an interesting story here but I don't know it. Comments/corrections are welcomed. Thanks to Joe Hinson for the city update.
Marked as a late production model by the FB-2 trucks and the rounded headlight casing, this unit sits under a spiderweb on now-useless wires.
Newly painted and looking good. It seemed the west was the hideout of the GEs in those days.
Ah, the impetuousness of youth. We saw this, snapped a few casual shots, maybe spending 15-20 minutes and dashed off in search of something else. We should have stayed and savored for hours, eve... (more)
Early version, small tank, standard dynamic brakes awaits its next call a the engine facility.
An otherwise fruitless day, because the railroad was down to a couple of "dead freights" daily, found this local with someplace he needed to be, charging by the station under long unused wires. H... (more)
This is one of those classic little "donkeys" which toiled away almost everywhere on this great old railroad, sometimes even MU'd in strings of four on road freights.
At the time I didn't realize that SOO even had these. This unadorned late-version of the 1200 HP switcher was switching a lumber reload site.
A little fire damage and a desperate financial situation resulted in this cannibalism victim no doubt. Such an object of morbid curiousity seemed to characterize every Milwaukee Road terminal.
This ex-passenger, ex-GN unit is one of the more decrepid ones around. Only MILW could compete, with it's occasionally plywood side panels.
Ex-CB&Q unit
