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Owner: Andersons
Model:Rebuilt EMD SSB1200Built As:ATSF 2437 (SW9)
Serial Number:18962Order No:6524
Frame Number:6524-4Built:12/1953
Notes:ex NOLR 1237
Other locos with this serial:  NOLR 1237(SSB1200) TNMR 1237(SW1200) AEX 100015(SW1200) AEX 100015(SSB1200) TNER 1237(SSB1200) ATSF 1237(SSB1200) ATSF 2437(SW9)
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AEX 100015
Title:  AEX 100015
Description:  On Piedmont and Northern at Ranlo, NC - Ex NOLR 1237
Photo Date:  2/2/2015  Upload Date: 2/4/2015 10:44:00 AM
Location:  Ranlo, NC
Author:  Brian Rasmussen
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AEX 100015(SSB1200)
Views:  807   Comments: 3
AEX SSB1200 100015
Title:  AEX SSB1200 100015
Description:  AEX 100015 was outside the S&I Locomotive shop in Opelousas, Louisiana. The loco had been built in December 1953 as Santa Fe SW9 2437 and it was upgraded by the railroad into SSB1200 1237 in March 1974. It was retired in December 1984 and sold to Railcar, Ltd., who leased it to shortline holding company RailTex. It initially operated in modified Santa Fe paint but lettered San Diego & Imperial Valley, then Texas & New Mexico and then TNER (Texas Northeastern); but on 4 October 1992 it arrived on the New Orleans Lower Coast (NOLR) in this very paint job. The paint scheme was designed by Mike Palmieri in a contest held by the railroad’s first general manager, Ted Proctor. The loco left New Orleans in April 1998 and did not return for over 16 years!

RailTex’s lease with Railcar was assumed by Railamerica in February 2000 and then by Genesee & Wyoming Industries in December 2012. Meanwhile, Railcar sold the unit to The Andersons (AEX) in 2004; but it continued to move around as NOLR 1237 until its lease expired and it was relettered AEX. It returned to Louisiana in March 2015 looking like this, wearing the same paint job it had received in 1992, and went to S&I where it became SILX 12.
Photo Date:  4/21/2015  Upload Date: 1/13/2024 5:39:03 PM
Location:  Avondale, LA
Author:  LEO PERSICK image
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AEX 100015(SSB1200)
Views:  234   Comments: 0


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