Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad brings out its whole fleet of EMD GP11's on this freight train going east on Track 2 Main through the Connellsville CSX yard. At the other end of the yard it would switch off onto SWP tracks, cross the Youghiogheny River and serve its customers in the southern part of the county. The weather forecast for this day couldn't have been more wrong, as they called for mostly cloudy skies with a rain shower.
SWP 2001 was reconditioned and repainted the past summer at the National Railway Equipment shops in Dixmoor, Illinois. The EMD GP11 was built as IC 9333 GP9 in December 1957.
This is one of the first looks at SWP 2006 as it was NREX 8749 just the week before. SWP now has ownership of the unit.
