Alco on steroids!
Sufficient power for a local? The start of CSX brought a flood of non-Chessie locomotives to Michigan rails, and some of them ended up performing some rather unusual services.
Was it 26 years ago? This one just came out of the washrack, remember those. It's just as well, they seemed to wash the paint off about as quickly as the dirt, at least on SCL.
Early '90s street running in Lafayette before the line relocation.
Once the pride of the fleet in the resplendent Bi-centennial colors, 1776 is now degraded to just another engine in the afterglow of the nation's 200th birthday.
Closeup shot of the cab of a SCL crane with a CSX sticker on it.
