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SAL 2700 & 2701 on the Pielot Bros. setout track across from EMD
photos by Chuck Zeiler
LaGrange, IL - November 15, 1964

SAL 2700 2700

DR6-4-1500A
c/n 73396 b/d 11/1947

- built for SAL as #2700
note the trailing B&O Shark
SAL 2701 SAL 2701 2701

DR6-4-1500A
c/n 73397 b/d 1/1948

- built for SAL as #2701
SAL had one other DR6-4-1500A, #2702. All were traded to EMD.
Note new SAL unit on the EMD setout track in the background of the left hand photo.



4500

prototype DR12-8-3000
c/n 71579, b/d 12/1945
Baldwin Ad - Railway Age Magazine, March 13, 1946

See: "First 3000 HP. Diesel Unit" - Baldwin Quarterly Magazine
See: Baldwin Magazine Advertisements featuring Seaboard 4500


1415

VO1000
c/n 71981, b/d 12/1944

- built for SAL as #1415
- became SCL #39
- EMD repowered
- to US Navy, EMD repowered by Maxon,
it may have become USN 65-00622
Baldwin Ad - Railway Age Magazine 1945



SAL 1464
 1464

S12
c/n 75144 b/d 1/1952

- built for SAL as #1464
- to SCL as #205
photo by: Unknown - collection of Mark Laundry
Richmond - August 9, 1952


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