Diesel Question

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They came to Petersburg, Va. I saw them at Collier Yard in the IT  
paint one time when I worked there in the seventies!!


Walt Gay


On Feb 19, 2007, at 7:25 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> Hi Listers,

>

>     The Illinois Terminal six-axle engines were SD39's with twelve  

> cylinder turbocharged 645 primemovers.  They retained their green  

> paint for awhile before being painted black.  The attached photo is  

> of #2965 being painted black in Ohio...well at least the bottom  

> half so far.  They all ended up in black with NORFOLK AND WESTERN  

> spelled out.  At the Huntington, WV. NWHS convention in 2000 I gave  

> Jim Gillum a set of slides for the archives showing the 2965 being  

> painted.  As far as I can tell they spent all their time on the old  

> W&LE in Ohio.  I started my two by using Rail Power Products SD38  

> shells with Athearn GP40-2 non D/B exhaust inserts.

>

> Take care, John Hecker

> nwrlinemp72 at ca.rr.com

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