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

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 5:44 PM
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.
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Posted by monkeyman2 on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 3:17 PM
Running a RS3m, not running, well, which ever engine at the B&O Museum is! :P
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Posted by wjstix on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 11:21 PM
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.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 3:53 PM
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.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:19 PM
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
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Posted by ericmanke on Thursday, November 17, 2005 6:48 AM
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.

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Posted by espeefoamer on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 4:34 PM
A Santa Fe GP9 on a local.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 14, 2005 8:01 PM
amtrak SWs
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Posted by daveklepper on Monday, November 14, 2005 3:27 PM
When and where the SD-9's in mainline service?
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Posted by route_rock on Friday, November 11, 2005 3:41 PM
SD-9s in MAINLINE service

Yes we are on time but this is yesterdays train

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, November 10, 2005 5:09 AM
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!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 6:28 AM
A late 1940's GE at a rolling mill.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 5:10 PM
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.
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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 12:34 PM
I've seen some IHB NW2's in service about a year ago, they were almost 55 years old at the time.
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Posted by David_Telesha on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 12:02 PM
The New Haven FL-9 - still soldiering on after almost 50 years.[:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 7, 2005 9:46 PM
a GE 70ton workin the steel mill in seattle
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Posted by Trainnut484 on Monday, November 7, 2005 6:13 PM
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.

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Posted by trainboyH16-44 on Tuesday, September 27, 2005 1:11 PM
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.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 9, 2005 4:43 PM
The oldest of the SF slug equipped yd switchers, in the BNSF 3800 series which are used mostly in KS yards, date to 1950
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Posted by joseph2 on Thursday, September 8, 2005 7:57 PM
I cheated.My employer has a 1948 NW 2 which I see daily.
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The oldest locomotive in service I've seen today while train watching is.............
Posted by Trainnut484 on Thursday, September 8, 2005 5:39 PM
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?

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