B&O SD9 1836 scrapped

[scottychaos]

Still wearing her 1970's Chessie System paint, and sitting for decades,
her time has run out.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 59&nseq=16

she was originally B&O 770.

Scot

[PRRGuy]

Here's my shot of the scrapping.

Ryan


http://nictd1000.rrpicturearchives.net/ ... id=1130701

[Gerry6309]

How rare are these beasts? Their cousins the GP-9s seem to be everywhere but the SD version was not as popular or longlived.

[PRRGuy]

B&O rostered of the 10 of the SD-9 Model.

#765-774. renumbered to 7405-7514, to Chessie System #1831-1840

Active Units:
POTB 6139 is former B&O 765
BNSF 1724 is former B&O 771


Unknown:

BNSF 6140 Ex B&O 766 Retired?
BNSF 6144 Ex B&O 772 Retired?

[hutton_switch]

BNSF 6140 Ex B&O 766 Retired?
BNSF 6144 Ex B&O 772 Retired?

I e-mailed B&O diesel expert Jim Mischke and this is what he had to say:

"BNSF 6140 active

BNSF 6144 is now BNSF 1725 and active. It is former B&O SD7 763, not SD9 772."

[PRRGuy]

Whoops!

[uhaul]

I had bad feelings when I saw this unit missing its engine room doors a while back. A sad ending, but at least there are other Chessie System painted units out there.