Commonwealth Edison #15 is a 600 horsepower SW1 built by EMD in September 1950. Locomotives such as #15 replaced the electric locomotives on the Commonwealth Edison line in Chicago. They served until the power plant closed in the 1970s and the railroad shut down. The tracks remained until the mid 1980s, but almost all have now been removed.
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Which Commonwealth Edison station was this? They had dozens of plants. I worked at Dresden Nuclear Station and we had an early SW. Don't remember the exact model. It was painted a horrible pinkish tan and was supposed to haul spent nuclear fuel to the reprocessing plant that never worked.
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