Survivors
The Modesto and Empire Traction Company used nine of these reliable 70-ton locomotives (MET No. 600–609) on their railroad along with two former Southern Pacific EMD SW1500s. They have since retired and sold all of these locomotives except no 600. The GE locomotives are also used by the Santa Maria Valley Railroad.
The Oregon Pacific Railroad owns the former Southern Pacific 5100 and is painted in the historic Southern Pacific scheme. It is currently out-of-service.
Ex-Norfolk Southern Railway (1942–1982) 703, GE builder #30015. ex-Southern Rwy #703, to Naporano Iron & Metal (5/78); to Lake Ontario Steel 5/78; now presently at South Simcoe Railway now powered by a Cummins VTA1710 V12 engine. http://www.steamtrain.com/, Tottenham, Ontario, Canada
The Denton Farmpark (Denton, NC) has the High Point Thomasville & Denton Railroad 202, it has been restored and is operational.
Two of the end cab versions exist on display at the Whippany Railway Museum, Whippany, NJ, USA, originally purchased by the Rahway Valley Railroad as RV16 and RV17 headquartered in Kenilworth NJ placed into service In 1951 and 1954 and run through the closing of the short rail business in 1990. Restoration done on site in Whippany.
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Famous quotes containing the word survivors:
“I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.”
—Lisel Mueller (b. 1924)
“I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don’t know how to handle their parents. They see that their parents are traumatized: they scream and don’t react normally.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)