BaltACD This one? https://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=a16c5678-b531-4060-a2f3-a620cac92b60&gid=3 That is the one!
This one? https://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=a16c5678-b531-4060-a2f3-a620cac92b60&gid=3
This one?
https://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=a16c5678-b531-4060-a2f3-a620cac92b60&gid=3
That is the one!
That is a 1944 Whitcomb 65DE19a #8416 Center Cab Diesel-Electric Locomotive.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1062644
Built for the U.S. Army Transportation Corps. The low cab feature was for use in Europe during WWII. After the war unit was sold to Virginia-Carolina Chemical#23, ex Mobil, ex IMC-Agrio...
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Jones1945 BaltACD Thanks for the links. They don't identify what the locomotive that is parked there is. It is a small center cab deal with rounded corners both horizontal and vertical and painted a fading light blue with no ownership identity painted on it. This one? https://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=a16c5678-b531-4060-a2f3-a620cac92b60&gid=3
BaltACD Thanks for the links. They don't identify what the locomotive that is parked there is. It is a small center cab deal with rounded corners both horizontal and vertical and painted a fading light blue with no ownership identity painted on it.
Thanks for the links. They don't identify what the locomotive that is parked there is. It is a small center cab deal with rounded corners both horizontal and vertical and painted a fading light blue with no ownership identity painted on it.
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It appears to be a Whitcomb. With its low cab, it could be ex-US Army.
Jones1945I believe that is the Lake Wales History Museum aka Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Depot: https://www.cityoflakewales.com/439/Lake-Wales-History-Museum https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/railroaddepots/lakewales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Coast_Line_Railroad_Depot_(Lake_Wales,_Florida)
https://www.cityoflakewales.com/439/Lake-Wales-History-Museum
https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/railroaddepots/lakewales
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Coast_Line_Railroad_Depot_(Lake_Wales,_Florida)
I believe that is the Lake Wales History Museum aka Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Depot:
Was driving from Sebring to Jacksonville and got detoured around highway bridge construction on US 27 in Lake Wales, FL. The detour took me past a old railroad station that had a caboose, passenger car and a center cab locomotive whose manufacturer I could not tell.
Anyone have any further information?
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