CESX F7A 1951 may be painted in the colors of the Wabash, but it was never owned by that railroad. Built by EMD in January 1953 as Great Northern 464A, it became Burlington Northern 684 when the CB&Q, GN, NP and SP&S were merged in 1970. The BN later sold it to the Seattle & North Coast Railroad, which operated on former Milwaukee Road trackage on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, where it wore number 102. When the SNCT went belly-up, this engine ended up working for the Grand Traverse Dinner Train, which renumbered it 1951. CESX 1951 and sister 1950 now work for the Columbia Star Dinner Train out of Columbia, Missouri - where it was found on October 5, 2014.
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