Here were three 1970's EMD end cab switchers at the Lochmere Siding in Tilton NH from Monday 7/31. This was a live handoff where the P&L Crew brought 5 privately owned assorted Budd RDCs from Meredith to the south end of their operating territory in Lochmere for the NEGS Crew to take south to their World HQ & Transload Yard in Canterbury.

The P&L Crew took to the siding, while the NEGS Crew went north of Silver Lake Road to tie onto the 5 Budds and run south.

It's not to often to see a SW1000, SW1001, and SW1500 all in one picture. While the SW1500 sold well, the SW1000 didn't, and the SW1001 found more buyers, and proved to be a better solution for tight clearances for industrial customers, with a lowered and curved cab, built like the older EMD switchers..

GMTX 1505 (SW1500) built for Southern Pacific in 1970.
P&L 1012 (SW1000) built for Burlington Northern in 1970
P&L 1590 (SW1001) built for the Reading in 1973.

P&L 1590 is probably one, if not the only, SW1001 that pulls tourist trains instead of freight.

GMTX 1505 was NEGS 2555.

Photographed by Jay Gadon, July 31, 2023.
Added to the photo archive by Jay Gadon, August 22, 2023.
Railroad: New England Southern.

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