Rapid Transit Holmes posted:While I'm at it, I might as well add my voice to the chorus clamoring for the Baldwin DT-6-6-2000. I grew up with the DTs... Ooops, that doesn't sound right. Having grown up along "The J", I can remember those units, resplendent in their orange and green, on the road jobs rolling through the corn fields and long to have one even it is only for static display.
This is a rebuilt locomotive with EMD 1200h.p. engines under modified SW hoods. All of the J's transfer switchers were rebuilt between 1956 and 1962.
Here's a "before" shot:
Rusty