| A well traveled locomotive waits for departure from the historic Hanover Junction station. Built by EMD in 1957 as a GP9 for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the unit was numbered 7128, and was one of over two hundred the Pennsy owned at one time. Working in freight service for its original owner for a little over ten years, the unit also saw service on Penn Central and Conrail. Conrail had 7128 rebuilt to a GP10 in 1978, along with thirty five other units, at the Illinois Central Gulf shops at Paducah, KY and renumbered it 7580. The unit would work for Big Blue for into the 1980s, when it was then sold off into private ownership. It would then see service in a variety of places, including Rail Tours Inc. and C&S Railroad at Jim Thorpe, PA and the Pennsy Supply quarry at Annville, PA. The Clinton Terminal acquired the locomotive in late 2013 and leased it to the Colebrookdale Railroad, where it gained its current paint scheme. Number 7580 operated there until the end of 2015 when Colebrookdale Railroad acquired their own unit, coincidentally another rebuilt ex-PRR GP10, and the 7580 would move south to the Northern Central. |