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Your Rarest Locomotive Sighting

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 8:19 AM
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
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Posted by joseph2 on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 6:18 AM
My rarest was an early 1930's Westinghouse Diesel switcher.Saw it on the Cadilac & Lake City back in 1974. Joe G.
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Posted by jwhite07 on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 5:44 AM
My rarest locomotive sighting is the F69PHAC - both of them, in fact.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 13, 2004 7:06 PM
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).
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Your Rarest Locomotive Sighting
Posted by bnsfkline on Tuesday, July 13, 2004 7:02 PM
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)
Jim Tiroch RIP Saveria DiBlasi - My First True Love and a Great Railfanning Companion Saveria Danielle DiBlasi Feb 5th, 1986 - Nov 4th, 2008 Check em out! My photos that is: http://bnsfkline.rrpicturearchives.net and ALS2001 Productions http://www.youtube.com/ALS2001

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