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 Post subject: Strasburg RR Picks Up Another Diesel Switcher
PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 10:48 am 

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From a Strasburg employee via the Baltimore Chapter NRHS FB page:

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"The Strasburg Rail Road Co. has purchased another diesel locomotive.
It is a 1953 EMD SW 9 that was originally used on the Santa Fe RR [one of 19 of the model acquired by the Santa Fe], after that it served at a chemical plant in VA.
We purchased it to save it from being scrapped and to be a regular counterpart to 8618.
An additional diesel locomotive is needed to aid in our ever growing freight business.
It will be numbered 1235.
It will be some time next year before it’s put into service.
No we don’t know what her paint scheme will be or what horns, etc. will be on it yet, so don’t ask."

Based on cross-indexing the data, we believe this was built as SW9 2435 in Dec. 1953 (EMD # 18960), rebuilt by AT&SF at the San Bernardino shops as an SSB1200 (SSB for Switcher, San Bernardino), one of 29 such rebuilds, and renumbered 1235 in Feb. 1974, retired Dec. 13, 1984 and traded in to GE, and resold by GE to the Celanese Corporation for use as a switcher at their Narrows, Virginia plant in June 1987. Though many Santa Fe SSB1200s ended up being sold to Amtrak, this was not one of them.


Loco, in faded Santa Fe blue that looks olive drab in certain lighting, was last reported this morning in NS's Dillerville Yard in Lancaster, Pa. awaiting paperwork for approval to transfer over Amtrak to Leaman Place.

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