Modern Urban Chicago

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Any SW experts out there.
Dave

No SW expert by any means, but can give you this much information regarding the SW-9/SW-1200. The SW-9 has six (6) louvers in the battery box behind the cab, where the SW-1200 only has five (5), otherwise, there are no differences. You'd have to be able to see the cab end of the locomotive to possibly identify which model it is and that may not help as according to information that I have, SW-1200's built between Jan 1954 and Mar 1955 still have six (6) louvers and are indistinguishable from SW-9's. You'd pretty much have to have access to the builder's number in order to be sure which is which.

By the way, I loved that CB&Q paint scheme that was applied to CIRY 1206. Very classy, although like some others, I felt that the "Central Illinois" lettering was much too small. I also wasn't aware that CIRY had ceased operations either. Hate it when an interesting short line goes out of business.