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State Belt Railroad #25 -- final days?
Author: SP 0-6-0
Date: 01-05-2018 - 20:35
On the railway preservation forum someone posted that State Belt RR 25, an Alco S2, is going to have its engine block cut as part of a trade-in for new green power.
Engine #25, San Francisco Belt Railroad, San Francisco, CA by Robby Virus, on Flickr
Quote:With over 145 years of age between them, San Francisco Bay Railroad's dual S-2 switchers of State Belt Railroad lineage have now entered their final year of working together.
Come end of the year, SFBR in partnership with the Port of SF will take delivery of it's first new locomotive in 73 years - a KLW SE10B. As part of the terms of a local grant from the Bay Area Air Quality Air Management, we will be required to cut the engine block in one of our two Alco S-2's, currently slotted to be the #25.
After retirement, tentative plans call for donating and displaying the prime mover gutted State Belt #25 in front of either the Ferry Building or Pier 1 Embarcadero waterfront building next to the Port of SF headquarters.
Pier 96 Railyard - San Francisco, CA - 01.03.2018
Engine #25, San Francisco Belt Railroad, San Francisco, CA by Robby Virus, on Flickr
State Belt Railroad #25 -- final days?