WTCX: Other Engines at the Mill

Continued from A Friendly Wave.

Here are a few pictures of some other locomotives I spotted at the mill on the way in before the trip and on the way out afterwards. The first two aren’t very good, as they were taken from a moving car, but they are here.

Weyerhaeuser #309

Weyerhaeuser #309, photographed on the way in.

Weyerhaeuser #309 is a GP7 built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in May 1953 as Reading Company #615. It was purchased by Weyerhaeuser in 1975. By 2001 it was reportedly for sale, but was still on the property in 2005 as shown here.

After Patriot Rail took over the Weyerhaeuser Woods Railroad on December 31, 2010, #309 was sold to Larry’s Truck & Electric of McDonald, Ohio in October 2011.

Columbia & Cowlitz #700, #701 & #702

Columbia & Cowlitz #701, photographed on the way in.

Columbia & Cowlitz #702, photographed on the way out.

Columbia & Cowlitz #700 is a GP20 built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in 1960 as Union Pacific #701. It was renumbered to #471 in December 1962. After being retired from Union Pacific in October 1977 it was sold to Precision National Corporation and rebuilt as a GP21 with a 2000-horsepower non-turbocharged 16-645 engine in place of its original 2000-horsepower turbocharged 16-567 engine. It was sold to South East Coal Co. (SECX) in March 1979 as #2004 for dedicated unit coal train service on the Louisville & Nashville in Kentucky. After SEC’s November 1990 bankruptcy it was sold to National Railway Equipment in March 1991. It was leased to the Arizona & California (ARZC) in May 1991 as #2004, and was used in national lease service in 1997 as NREX #2004. It was sold to Columbia & Cowlitz in 1998.

Columbia & Cowlitz #701 is a GP20 built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in 1960 as Union Pacific #727. It was renumbered to #497 in December 1962. After being retired from Union Pacific in October 1977 it was sold to Precision National Corporation and rebuilt as a GP21 with a 2000-horsepower non-turbocharged 16-645 engine in place of its original 2000-horsepower turbocharged 16-567 engine. It was sold to South East Coal Co. (SECX) in March 1979 as #2005 for dedicated unit coal train service on the Louisville & Nashville in Kentucky. After SEC’s November 1990 bankruptcy it was sold to National Railway Equipment in March 1991. It was leased to the Arizona & California (ARZC) in May 1991 as #2005, and was used in national lease service in 1997 as NREX #2005. It was sold to Columbia & Cowlitz in 1998.

Columbia & Cowlitz #702 was built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in 1953 as Nickel Plate Road GP7 #431. It later became Norfolk & Western #2431. It came to Weyerhaeuser in 1976 after being rebuilt as a GP7u by Morrison-Knudsen of Boise, Idaho, and was initially assigned to Vail, Washington, as #765. In 1981 it became Chehalis Western #765. It was transferred to the Columbia & Cowlitz as #701 in 1989, and was rebuilt in 1998 as #702 with a home-built low nose as shown here.

After Patriot Rail took over the Columbia & Cowlitz on December 31, 2010, all three of these locomotives were sold to Larry’s Truck & Electric of McDonald, Ohio in October 2011.