Assigned to the grain elevator in Gothenburg, this locomotive was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division; Electro-Motive Division; EMD as a Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe F7A 242L in January 1951.
By 1970, Santa Fe's aging fleet of EMD F-units units were approaching retirement age. These units were remanufactured into road-switchers and dubbed âCF7â. Santa Fe used them as switchers or local power for a decade, later selling many of them to short lines around the states, although Amtrak acquired some as well. Many of those were still being used in the early 21st Century, as seen here.
Santa Fe 242L was rebuilt into CF7 2536 in January 1974. It was eventually sold to TennKen Railroad as their TKEN 2536. The TKEN then sold it to Nashville & Eastern, where it was often used on their Broadway Dinner Train. NERR sold it, too, to Rail Link, a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming Inc., where it wore number RLIX 536. From there, It was sold to DTE Transportation Services Ltd as 536 and resold as Farmland Services Cooperative, as seen here, numbered FSCX 1.
