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News Wire: CSX donates SD45-2 to Georgia museum

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Tuesday, September 4, 2018 11:19 AM

DULUTH, Ga. — CSX Transportation donated a rare SD45-2 locomotive to the Southeastern Railway Museum that is the first of its kind exhibited in a museum. Electro-Motive Division built CSX No. 8954 in August 1974. It was one of only 136 SD45-2 d...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/09/04-csx-donates-sd45-2-to-georgia-museum

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Posted by Overmod on Tuesday, September 4, 2018 12:04 PM

Sad that the ex-EL unit at REDI, which had also been quietly slated for preservation, was destroyed thro ugh contractor oversight. At least the Youngstown group is taking up stewardship of the EL/Conrail SDP at VMT.

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