I love that name. Sounds like a limited series on BBC Masterpiece Theatre.
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Makes me wonder if this is a former Reading unit after noticing the arched "drip strip" above the cab windows. It's good to know that maybe this unit will find a new home and avoid being scrapped like so many other switchers over the years.
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Buttheads on the tracks are going away but fortunately there are not threatened in railroad company headquarters. LOL
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Jonathan, this is its home. This unit currently works Conrad Yelvington's plant near downtown Orlando. The only unit they use besides this one is an Alco, but it is not used often.
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Thanks for the update and reply. Just seeing this one still basically alive made me think of way back in December 1986 when Chessie System had dozens of units in storage at the Huntington, WV yards. Among them were a good number of EMD SW's, B&O 9423 and 9424 among them, with stacks wrapped in plastic and a dim future. Let's hope this one, and the Alco you mentioned, run for a good long time.
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