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Owner: St Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt)
Model:EMD SD45Built As:SSW 8966 (SD45)
Serial Number:33626Order No:7081
Frame Number:7081-3Built:2/1968
Other locos with this serial:  SSW 8966(SD45)
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Cotton Belt Units
Title:  Cotton Belt Units
Description:  This trio of Cotton Belt locomotives was photographed from the westbound SUNSET LIMITED as it passed AVONDALE YARD, at the west end of the Huey P. Long Bridge. These were GP40 7607, which had been built in March 1966; SD45 8966, which had been built in February 1968; and the nose of GP9 3645, which had been built in October 1957 as the 824 and was still in its original paint scheme.
Photo Date:  9/30/1970  Upload Date: 4/30/2021 5:31:35 PM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SSW 7607(GP40) SSW 8966(SD45)
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SSW 8966
Title:  SSW 8966
Description:  In Conrail's Conway engine facility.
Photo Date:  9/11/1980  Upload Date: 2/12/2008 2:06:32 PM
Location:  Conway, PA
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
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Locomotives:  SSW 8966(SD45)
Views:  718   Comments: 0


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