11-19-2010, 08:14 AM
faraway Wrote:I think those are the SW1200 ( http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/picture...720031.JPG ). They had a bunch of them. They look nice and Conrail blue would be a good match (close enough) but the lettering.... I have a request with a custom decal maker pending.
They may be Sw1200's. I thought I saw Sw7 stenciled on the locomotive somewhere when I last saw one in operation, but I haven't been down there since I worked in the area last in 2005. I retired in 2006. I'm not very familiar with the various nuances of spotting features on EMD Sw models. The only ones I recognize easily are Mp15ac, and the Rebuilds made by U.P. using the Gp 9 hood on the front end of an Sw. I model Santa Fe, and they pretty much much phased out switchers when they rebuilt the F units into Cf7's and at about the same time rebuilt Gp7's and 9's into chop noses with the Topeka cabs. Since then they have continued to detune or downgrade older road power units for industrial switching service. The latest example being the use of Gp60m's in industrial service and having used standard cabs installed on the Gp60b's for use in local switching. BNSF may have some switchers left over from BN, but the last "Santa Fe" unit resembling an Sw was the "Beep" used at the Argentine Engine Facility to move dead engines around that were being rebuilt. I think the "Beep" was an old Baldwin switcher with part of a Gp7 or 9 long hood and EMD prime mover.