KANSAS CITY Sept 29 1980 — Precision National Corp. NW2 PNCX 1012 (c/n 6686) is tied down at Armourdale Yard. EMD delivered the unit in January 1949 as Baltimore & Ohio 563. It was renumbered to... (more)

Used as a power car for a rail welding operation. I would guess from the radiator & single stack there is a smaller engine than the original in there. Photo by Michael Singer, from my collection.

Originally NYC>PC>CR. Photo by Tony Vanier. From my collection.

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Standing between two Conrail GP30’s of PRR and Reading origins, a former Frisco GP7 is at Juniata Shops in Altoona, Pennsylvania for a little work. If the “Fris... (more)

A Precision National Leasing SD24, still in Southern paint, leads five other units on a Milwaukee Road train at Bensenville, Illinois. This was during the power shortage after bankruptcy and a m... (more)

Leaser on the Conway Hump

Precision National Corporation and its predecessor Precision Engineering Company were locomotive rebuilders and pioneers in the locomotive leasing busines... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

In the 1960's and 1970's CP had a chronic power shortage despite the arrival of many second generation units. At the same time the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway was selling off GP9's th... (more)

Precision National Corporation was a pioneer in the locomotive leasing field. It’s lease fleet was built almost exclusively on locomotives powered by EMD 567 engines. One such example was a doze... (more)

PNCX 6323, a former Southern Railway SD24 is parked at Altoona, WI on CNW for fueling and sand. CNW leased a batch of these units in 1979 and later bought some of them converting them to SD18s (de... (more)

A crew sets out leased SD24 PNCX 6335, a former Southern unit from the consist of train 483 at Altoona, WI. The three CNW units will continue the train west to East Minneapolis once switching is c... (more)

A pair of PNC leasers, are backing up to IC crew office from South Yard in Mc Comb waiting on Amtrak.

The resident lease locomotive on the Akron and Barberton Belt leads a short freight through Barberton, Ohio.

a pair of leased PNC GP's along with another trio of mixed exIC ICG units wait on the main line at the crew office for the passage of Amtrak's northbound "City of New Orleans" before resuming work

Michigan Northern started with a couple RS-3's and aquired an eclectic group of power over the years including more RS-3's, RS-2's, Baldwin RS-12's and even the pair of RF-16 Sharks. All those old... (more)