Nice shot. ex Illinois Central SW-1. Do you know when and where photo was taken. I have never seen a picture of one of the ex-IC's in the bright red and yellow. Thanks for sharing the image.
Darn thing's so clean, I thought it was a model at first! It's an ex IC unit, I'll be darn. It's cool to see some of the stuff that used to haunt the rails here in Sacred Central Illinois. ------------------ BNSF RAILFAN-TO-THE-MAX! Brent Tidaback, Member #234 and a N-Scaler to boot!
Leave it to the Rock Island to buy second hand sw-1's in 1969-1970. Everyone was into SD-40's, GP-38's(The Rocks didnt come until 1976). The Rock Island was purchasing second hand E-8's & 9's and rebuilt F-3's from the UP. Sw-1's from the IC and NW-2's from P&LE. In all fairness they did purchase GP-40's around this time and wound up with some SD-40-2's and U30C's in 1973. It made for some fun train watching but looking back on it I guess we were lucky the railroad lasted as long as it did.
