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Shop Engine

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Almost every railroad shop has a unit that they keep around to shuffle dead engines. Here in North Platte I found this F9 over the pits. It was built as an F3 (note the grills) but re-rated to F9 somewhere along the way. These units were retired in 1972 and I caught #521 on the trade-in line in McCook then.

This shot was originally in color but it was shot straight into the sun, the unit was in full shade and the color was way off.
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That type of cab doesn't make for the best switching.  I hope they changed the gearing.