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Owner: Chicago Rock Island & Pacific
Model:EMD GP7Built As:PLE 5724 (GP7)
Serial Number:16351Order No:6369
Frame Number:6369-12Built:6/1952
Notes:blt 6/52 P&LE 5724, NCTR 1502
Other locos with this serial:  MGA 1502(GP7) PLE 1513(GP7) CRIP 1502(GP7)
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CRIP GP7 #1502 - Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific
Title:  CRIP GP7 #1502 - Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific
Description:  Built by EMD in June of 1952 orginally as P&LE #5724, this GP7 unit now wears the basic black of the Rock Island switchers as it sits in front of Rock Island boxcars at Blue Island, IL. Dave Arganbright caught this switcher.
Photo Date:  7/15/1984  Upload Date: 10/2/2016 9:10:56 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 1502(GP7)
Views:  474   Comments: 3
CRI&P GP7 1502
Title:  CRI&P GP7 1502
Description:  CRI&P GP7 1502, Blue Island, Illinois, September 8, 1984, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in June 1952 for the P&LE as 5724 (c/n 16351) on EMD Order 6369, it was later renumbered P&LE 1513, then sold to MGA becoming 1502, leased to NCTR as 1502, leased to the Rock Island Trustees as 1502, further disposition unknown. By the date of this photo, the Rock Island had been shut down for about four years. Based on the letter F stencilled on the frame, this is the Front of the locomotive.
Photo Date:  9/8/1984  Upload Date: 11/6/2009 11:20:23 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 1502(GP7)
Views:  694   Comments: 2
CRI&P GP7 1502
Title:  CRI&P GP7 1502
Description:  CRI&P GP7 1502, Blue Island, Illinois, September 8, 1984, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in June 1952 for the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie (a subsidiary of the New York Central System) as 5724 (c/n 16351) on EMD Order 6369, it was later renumbered P&LE 1513, then either sold or leased to Monongahala Railway (MGA, a joint venture of the PRR and the P&LE) becoming 1502, later leased to North Central Texas Railroad (NCTR, incorporated on May 29, 1980, as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company to acquire part of the Mid-Continent Route of the former Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company) as 1502, leased to the Rock Island Trustees as 1502, further disposition unknown. By the date of this photo, the Rock Island had been shut down for about four years. Based on the number 2 stencilled on this end of the frame, and the letter F stencilled on the other end, this is the rear of the locomotive, which is consistent with NYC practice.
Photo Date:  9/8/1984  Upload Date: 11/7/2009 9:34:42 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 1502(GP7)
Views:  936   Comments: 1
CRI&P GP7 1502
Title:  CRI&P GP7 1502
Description:  Ex P&LE
Photo Date:  10/31/1987  Upload Date: 3/6/2016 9:17:48 AM
Location:  East St Louis, IL
Author:  Alan Gaines
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 1502(GP7)
Views:  256   Comments: 0


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