friscobob
July 30th, 2008, 02:07 PM
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/srchThumbs.aspx?srch=CRIP+536&search=Search
The above is a link to a series of pics of ex-Rock Island SW1 536 (built 1942) which is currently in service at a grain elevator in Plainview, TX.
Here's a post from A-OK president Dave Donoley concerning this little goat:
Rock Island Engine 536
Posted by: "david donoley" **************. com (http://us.mc577.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=aokrr%40tulsaconnect.com) bdd74578
Date: Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:29 am ((PDT))
Warm up your camera RI 536 is leaving Texas for a home on her home track the
ROCK ISLAND. The 536 will load out on a truck at Plainview Texas tomorrow
(Tuesday July 29th, 2008) and TRUCK East to Wilburton, Oklahoma. Here the SW
1 will be rebuild and put back into service. Yes she will recieve RED and
YELLOW paint scheme of A-OK Railroad. Yes she will Keep her number of 536.
Need all the information on where this Engine worked on the Rock Island.
Dave Donoley
A-OK'a active fleet, currently B23-7s and B23-7SSs, are painted in red & yellow reminiscent of the Rock's last paint scheme before the switch to Barringer Blue. This line operates on part of the former Choctaw Route between Howe and McAlester, OK, as well as handles switching chores for the GM plant at Oklahoma City. Numerous cars with AOK reporting marks can also be seen in freights coast to coast, and even on some HO scale cars (!!).
The above is a link to a series of pics of ex-Rock Island SW1 536 (built 1942) which is currently in service at a grain elevator in Plainview, TX.
Here's a post from A-OK president Dave Donoley concerning this little goat:
Rock Island Engine 536
Posted by: "david donoley" **************. com (http://us.mc577.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=aokrr%40tulsaconnect.com) bdd74578
Date: Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:29 am ((PDT))
Warm up your camera RI 536 is leaving Texas for a home on her home track the
ROCK ISLAND. The 536 will load out on a truck at Plainview Texas tomorrow
(Tuesday July 29th, 2008) and TRUCK East to Wilburton, Oklahoma. Here the SW
1 will be rebuild and put back into service. Yes she will recieve RED and
YELLOW paint scheme of A-OK Railroad. Yes she will Keep her number of 536.
Need all the information on where this Engine worked on the Rock Island.
Dave Donoley
A-OK'a active fleet, currently B23-7s and B23-7SSs, are painted in red & yellow reminiscent of the Rock's last paint scheme before the switch to Barringer Blue. This line operates on part of the former Choctaw Route between Howe and McAlester, OK, as well as handles switching chores for the GM plant at Oklahoma City. Numerous cars with AOK reporting marks can also be seen in freights coast to coast, and even on some HO scale cars (!!).