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Reply to "Switcher Saturday - Mark II, 8/31/19 !!"

trestleking posted:

This week's 1/1 scale entry is from TradePoint Rail,  a switching service at the repurposed former Bethlehem Steel - Sparrows Point, MD site.    I have heard this engine coming & going but always seemed to miss it, until now.  Maybe someone can help with the engine model ?   I think the engineer is a model RR buff as he always has the bell & horn going,  but his horn sounds like a sick cow, really.  I hope to flag him down someday & get a better shot.IMG_0242

Well, I can't read the engine number on the cab but it is three digits and the first digit isn't a "1". Also it is unmistakably an EMD end-cab switcher 

TradePointRail is ex-Patapsco and Black River so I went to RR Pictures Archive:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locolist.aspx?id=PBR

According to the website roster if the first digit is NOT a "1" it has to be either an SW9 or an SW1500 and there are no outboard hand-rails so I deduce it is ex-NYC 894:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...cture.aspx?id=487806

 

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