The oldest locomotive in service I've seen today while train watching is.............

[Trainnut484]

I've posted this in another forum, but it may feel more at home here

The oldest locomotive I've seen today is a UP switcher and slug working here in KC



What's the oldest locomotive(s) you've seen today?

Russell

[joseph2]

I cheated.My employer has a 1948 NW 2 which I see daily.

[Anonymous]

The oldest of the SF slug equipped yd switchers, in the BNSF 3800 series which are used mostly in KS yards, date to 1950

[trainboyH16-44]

The rebuilt Geeps that they have in yard service. I once saw a 1951 GP7.
CP 2816 was built in the early thirties, but it's service isn't so regular.
Trainboy

[Trainnut484]

This past Saturday, caught an KCS SW8/9 (maybe a 7) mated with an MP15AC pulling some cars through SF junction here in KC. I think it was doing a yard transfer run.

Take care,

Russell

[Anonymous]

a GE 70ton workin the steel mill in seattle

[David_Telesha]

The New Haven FL-9 - still soldiering on after almost 50 years.[:D]

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

I've seen some IHB NW2's in service about a year ago, they were almost 55 years old at the time.

[Anonymous]

Saw a couple of U boats pulling some orange MOW hoppers, presumably headed to the derailment site of a coal train on CSX's C line at Newberry, South Carolina. I was too far away to tell if they were U33C's or what but they were still in the Conrail colors.

[Anonymous]

A late 1940's GE at a rolling mill.

[daveklepper]

The summer of 1951 I was an ROTC cadet at Fort Monmouth and was asked by MIT to take a test at Princeton University. I got my pass, went to Little Silver Staition on the New York and long Branch ( the joint PRR-Jersey Central line) to catch the doodlebug, diesel electric car, that made with a coach trailer, the run from Red Bank across to Monmouth Junction and Trenton. An E-6 Atlantic showed up with combine and coach. I could not have been happier with the subsitution!

[route_rock]

SD-9s in MAINLINE service

[daveklepper]

When and where the SD-9's in mainline service?

[Anonymous]

amtrak SWs

[espeefoamer]

A Santa Fe GP9 on a local.

[ericmanke]

A SW7 on the Nicolet Badger Northerna few years back and I've seen quite a few of GP7s that have been on CNW, SOO, WSOR, FRV, WC.
Wisconsin was a rolling museum for old first generation stuff in the early to mid 90s.
Saw some F units on WICT in the early 90s, and saw a WSOR E unit pinch hitting in freight service 4 years ago, boy that was a surprise.
I've also seen the WC SW1 sitting, but not operating, and an old Alco switcher in Milwaukee. I think it works for the Sewerage Dept., but I'm not sure.

Eric

[Anonymous]

North Shore RR #364 rolls by my apartment in Lewisburg (PA) to and from a grain and feed place in Winfield about three times per week. It is a garden variety GM built switcher from the (1950's?), repainted in Erie Lackawanna style colors... MCF

[Anonymous]

SD9's on BNSF all the time at Willmar, MN. Seeing that orange and green is reminiscent of the old GN. Wonderful to see them.

[wjstix]

Well I photographed a Milw NW-2 from 1939 in their yards along Hiawatha Ave in Mpls in about 1985. The MN&S had some c.1940 VO-660's I saw as a kid, and a Baldwin DRS 6-6-1500 and an FM H-10-44 from about 1948-50. In 1969 I rode behind a 1947 GN E-unit on the Badger from Mpls MN to Superior WI.

I got to see many F units and GMD-1's in Canada, and I saw an FP on Via Rail's "The Canadian" in 1983. In the eighties the Soo and then CP ran GP-9s in front of house several times a week.

For recent times, I rode behind a Soo FP-7 and Erie Mining F-9 on a fantrip (the F-9 had just been retired in 2001 I believe, or was about to be retired, but other F-9s were still in service) in 2002.

[monkeyman2]

Running a RS3m, not running, well, which ever engine at the B&O Museum is! :P

[Anonymous]

I've seen CGW FP7 116A moving a few months ago. It normally just sits on display in Oelwein, IA but I suppose it runs from time to time.