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Chesapeake & Ohio 3533, 5765 and Other C&O Misc. Power at the Former Pere Marquette RR Wyoming Micigan Yard
On June 6, 1981, we see nothing but C&O blue at Chessie System's Wyoming, MI locomotive service facility. Although Chessie had been formed eight years earlier, many C&O, B&O and even a few WM locomotives lasted into the CSX era still painted in their predecessor paint schemes.
On this fine summer day, five locomotives are parked near the diesel shop in several different variations of the C&O blue scheme. On the far right rests GP35 3533 built in June, 1964, then GP-7 5765 built in November, 1951. Next up are two SW-9's, the 5082 and 5088, (both built April 1952) followed by another GP-7.
Originally a Pere Marquette Railway facility, Wyoming Yard, (near Grand Rapids) once hosted the main locomotive and car shops for the PM until formal merger with the C&O on June 6, 1947- exactly 34 years to the day before the date of this photo.
Chesapeake & Ohio 3533, 5765 and Other C&O Misc. Power at the Former Pere Marquette RR Wyoming Micigan Yard
On June 6, 1981, we see nothing but C&O blue at Chessie System's Wyoming, MI locomotive service facility. Although Chessie had been formed eight years earlier, many C&O, B&O and even a few WM locomotives lasted into the CSX era still painted in their predecessor paint schemes.
On this fine summer day, five locomotives are parked near the diesel shop in several different variations of the C&O blue scheme. On the far right rests GP35 3533 built in June, 1964, then GP-7 5765 built in November, 1951. Next up are two SW-9's, the 5082 and 5088, (both built April 1952) followed by another GP-7.
Originally a Pere Marquette Railway facility, Wyoming Yard, (near Grand Rapids) once hosted the main locomotive and car shops for the PM until formal merger with the C&O on June 6, 1947- exactly 34 years to the day before the date of this photo.