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Nothing "cruddy" about the SW1500
Author: engr
Date: 02-24-2016 - 19:13

Got to thinking today, I wonder if the SW1500 should be ranked in the top 10 of US-made locomotives of all time? It was a great locomotive: useful in the yard, on branch lines, and even the mainline. A true road switcher. It had good visibility and crews liked them. Railroads liked them, too, and bought many. The SW1500 also has a high re-sale value today.

Rather than post my own "cruddy" photography, here is a very interesting Joe Blackwell shot.

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Joe Blackwell
The seventies was a booming decade for SP which found the railroad chronically power short resulting in many unusual power lashups, here a set of seven SW1500's lead a Dolores yard to Taylor yard hauler on the San Pedro Branch along Slausen Ave in the city of Vernon, CA

http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/5/0/4/5504.1310905416.jpg
Image source: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=369081

And here is a short video featuring an SW1500. Not mine, but believe it was shot in the mid-80's.

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The combined Saugus and Burbank Branch job are first seen coming into Burbank Jct. At the same time the DS can be heard giving block authority to Amtrak #13, the northbound Starlight, which is then seen


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Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Nothing "cruddy" about the SW1500 engr 02-24-2016 - 19:13
  Re: Nothing "cruddy" about the SW1500 M. Smith 02-24-2016 - 20:30
  Re: Nothing "cruddy" about the SW1500 M. Smith 02-24-2016 - 20:31
  Re: Nothing "cruddy" about the SW1500 engr 02-24-2016 - 20:44
  Re: Nothing "cruddy" about the SW1500 wsabo 02-25-2016 - 10:00
  Re: Nothing "cruddy" about the SW1500 CZ17west 02-24-2016 - 21:21
  Re: Nothing "cruddy" about the SW1500 HUTCH 7.62 02-25-2016 - 09:42
  Re: Nothing "cruddy" about the SW1500 Craig Tambo 02-25-2016 - 22:27
  Re: Nothing "cruddy" about the SW1500 Trainmaster 02-25-2016 - 16:56
  Amtrak #13 -- Starlight engr 02-26-2016 - 11:35
  Re: Amtrak #13 -- Starlight Craig Tambo 02-26-2016 - 20:04
  Re: Amtrak #13 -- Starlight CZ17west 02-26-2016 - 21:38


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