Your Rarest Locomotive Sighting

[bnsfkline]

What is the rarest locomotive that YOU have seen? Mine is an Ex SP GP40P-2, ex SP GP40X and a 4 GP60B's (a BNSF GP60M A-B-B-B-B-A consist)

[Anonymous]

The rarest NJT locomotives I ever saw were two of those F40's they bought from Amtrak and then NJT 500 which is a SW1500 (ex PLE 1570).

[jwhite07]

My rarest locomotive sighting is the F69PHAC - both of them, in fact.

[joseph2]

My rarest was an early 1930's Westinghouse Diesel switcher.Saw it on the Cadilac & Lake City back in 1974. Joe G.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

My rarest locomotives would be ATSF H12-44TS (only 3 built) while they were still working Dearborn Station and C&IM's RS1325's (all 2 of them) in Springfield IL

[Anonymous]

Mine would have to be BNSF SD60M 9297. The one with two different paint schemes, one for each side of the loco. It was in the lead of a coal train through Wayzata, MN a couple years back

[Anonymous]

The rarest one I've seen operating was CSX B23-7R 3185 in Palmer, Mass. Only two left on the roster now.

[Randy Stahl]

ALCO RS1 , just passing through dead in consist, could'nt resist riding on it, at least I didn't try buying it!!!

[Anonymous]

I've seen some CR and NS/CR patch C32-8's, the rarest paint schemes I've seen are the NS Operation Lifesaver C40-9W's.

[Noah Hofrichter]

I guess you could say the WSOR SD20's as there aren't a whole lot of SD20's around, at least I don't think, and also a former CNW operation lifesaver unit on a train last week in Wisconsin Dells.

Noah

[espeefoamer]

the rarest loco I ever saw operating was a high hood ALCo switcher working an industry in Longview, Washington.This loco is now in a museum in Snoqualmie,WA. The rarest I ever saw,were two,of only three built,ALCo diesel hydraulics on the dead line in Roseville.
I once saw on the SP, An A-B-B-B-B-B-B-A set of F7s on a cab hop. That's 8 units![:D]

[Anonymous]

Dear Sirs,


Altho' an Abortion, one of those EMD Repowered NYC Lima Roadswitchers at Philadelphia in the Sixties. At THAT TIME there were more PAs, Ss, HHs, Sharks, F-Ms, Baldwins and Straight Limas Operating, so a Repowered One, and a Roadswitcher, was not common.


Saw a Centre Cab Baldwin from the Passenger Train to Chicago near Gary? Indiana a week before Amtrak. Also a Scarce thing. Repowered too??

[corwinda]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bnsfkline

What is the rarest locomotive that YOU have seen? Mine is an Ex SP GP40P-2, ex SP GP40X

I've seen those, but I think my rarest sighting was the BN NW5 in a Tacoma scrap line back in the 80s.

[traingeek087]

BNSF 9297.

[Anonymous]

back in 1995, i've caught an odd-looking locomotive it was a cross between a... a GP b-unit the cab instead of placeing the cab outside, it looked as if the body was recycled. it belonged to LORAM. note: the body of this unit looked like a GP20 with an flat nose, sounded like an GP9, no cab instead looked like the body was re-modeled er, kit bashed [%-)]. one day (as i normally wait at a crossing, a group of E8's from Conrail speeds by. 4020,4021and 4022 with it OCS train. those first generation movers where SCREAMING that was the best part[^] sadly NS and CSX retired the E-units heard the news i was not too pleased [:(!][V][banghead]

[locomutt]

I've seen afew,but the ones that stick in my mind,
are several L&N/Family Lines BQ's,and around 1972 a couple of
Whitcomb diesels around Columbia,S.C.

[BaltACD]

The B&O's 44 ton GE used on the job that switched up and down Pratt Street in Baltimore at night.....quite a sight to be where the Harbor Place complex currently stands with a GE 44 Ton switching on the Pratt Steet job and on an adjacent track the Light Street job switching other industrys with an EMD SW-1.....long gone days(nights).

[Anonymous]

when i was a kid, the emd experimental electric went through here on the conrail (ex-P&E) line to indianapolis. I can't remember off-hand which one it was (according to the diesel spotters guide, there were two) , but it was the one with the custom underframe (emd 10 , i believe) - there were a lot of strange, rare sightings on that line (ex-EL units, Southern high-hood GP30), too bad I was too young to be good with a camera to capture a lot of them!!!!

[Anonymous]

Cr C32-8 Ballast Express Grey

A pair of Reading F units At one of Conrails Railfest

[Anonymous]

The rarest locomotive i have ever seen is Kalamazoo, Lake Shore, and Chicago CF7 at Omnitrex shops at the old Chicago, West Pullman and Southen yard in southern Chicago. Not that it was a rare locomotive, just the fact it was there seeing as KLSC went belly up a quite a while before. And the line from Hartford, Michigan to Paw Paw was sold to Pioneer Rail Corp.

[Paul3]

Oh, probably the X2000 electrics that Amtrak borrowed for a short while (only two, one on each end, were ever in the Western hemasphere).

I did see a Conrail "Super 7" U-boat some time ago on a local switcher. I remember being quite shocked at seeing EMD blombergs under a GE loco.

The rarest production locos I have seen are the HHP-8's on the NEC. I think there is only a dozen of these...

Paul A. Cutler III
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Weather Or No Go New Haven
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[Anonymous]

I think that my rarest sighting would have to be UP 144 a General Electric B23-7 from what I can gather. I think that this might actually be the same engine that was pictured in Trains June '04 pgs. 46&47. The date on that picture is 1968. You can e-mail me if you want to see a picture that I took of it.

That whole consist was odd. I think that it was a power move since there were eight engines on a train of perhaps 25 cars. It was also in this consist that I saw the only CSX engine (#7711) that I have ever seen in Denver.

Scott

[Paul Milenkovic]

Driving on Hwy 41 alongside what-used-to-be the Wisconsin Central line through Appleton, WI, I have seen a B-B road switcher labeled "GEC-Alstom." Is this just a leasing arrangement of a conventional North American loco, is this some kind of European exotic, or is it one of these repowering deals?

[Anonymous]

Wildwood Florida, in 1960, on the Seaboard Airline, I photographed a train leaving the yard with four Baldwin centipedes on the point. For the benefit of you younger members, the Baldwin centipede was a monster covered wagon with two 8 cylinder 3000 hp engines under the hood and a 2-d-d-2 (4-8-8-4) wheel arrangement, 96 wheels in all. Considering the reliability of these notorious units, two were probably adequate for the train while two more were neened for redundancy.

[Randy Stahl]

Today a pair of SD-45s rolled onto my service tracks. Not that unusual.. exept that they were'nt WCs one CEFX in UP paint and one SP #8648 bloody nose, speed lettering etc.
Randy

[UPTRAIN]

Utah Railway F45 9013 at Granite City, Illinois.

[philnrunt]

Saw the Amtrak Turbo Train in Richmond, In, way back when, saw 8 brand new GE's for NdeM (pretty!!) on NW line outside of Muncie ,In. also back in the 70's, an EMD re-engined Alco RS at ConRail yard in Marion, In, and 2 small steam engines on flat cars on Penn Central in Anderson In.
Nowadays, you just don't see as many oddballs. Well, I mean oddball engines. Too bad.

[AlcoRS11Nut]

A CN GMD 1, CF7, ALCo C430.

(really want to see an ALCo RS-27)

[mudchicken]

San Luis Southern d-500 or a whole flock of ex-BN NW-5's in Eastern Colorado in service (Kind of EMD's answer to the RS-1)....

[espeefoamer]

I saw the EMD demo set of GP-35 DD35-DD35-GP-35 in EMDs red & white demo colors.I also saw two SD-45 demos on an SP freight.Saw an NW-5 in Portland.