Nucor Steel keeps their two diesels in immaculate condition! Nucor 05 was built in March 1955 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Northern Pacific SW1200 125. (Look closely at the side sill, and you can still see the cast oval plates NP applied to designate each truck's axle designation.). When NP joined the CB&Q, GN and SP&S to form Burlington Northern Railroad in 1970, this switcher was renumbered BN 184. It lasted on the BN long enough to endure yet another merger, this time in 1995 with the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, to form the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (later shortened to just "BNSF" as the full name was a real mouthful), becoming BNSF 3532. At some point, the BNSF sold this end cab switcher off, and it was acquired by Nucor Steel. (Darlington, South Carolina - October 17, 2008). Photographed on private property with permission and full PPE.
(This is the "Darlington County" Bruce Springsteen sang about in his song of the same name on the Born in the U.S.A. album.)
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just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
