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MidContinent Railway #7, an S-1, rests between trains on October 10, 2004. | |
Power type | Diesel-electric |
Builder | American Locomotive Company, and Montreal Locomotive Works |
Build date | S-1: April 1940 – June 1950 S-3: February 1950 – November 1953 |
Total produced | S-1: 550 S-3: 292 |
AAR wheel arr. | B-B |
Gauge | 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) |
Prime mover | Alco 539 |
Engine type | Four-stroke diesel |
Aspiration | Normally aspirated |
Displacement | 9,572 cu in (156.86 l) |
Cylinders | Straight 6 |
Cylinder size | 12 × 13 in (318 × 330 mm) 1⁄2 |
Power output | 660 hp (490 kW) |
Locale | North America, Brazil, United Kingdom |
The ALCO S-1 and S-3 were 660 horsepower (490 kW) switcher diesel-electric locomotives produced by ALCO and their Canadian subsidiary Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW). Basically, the two locomotives differed only in trucks, with the S-1 using ALCO's own Blunt trucks, and the S-3 riding on standard AAR type A switcher trucks. The S-1 was built between April 1940 and June 1950, with a total of 540 completed, while the S-3 was constructed between February 1950 and November 1953 (MLW until 1957) with total sales of 292. A modified version, the S-10, was built by MLW only; 13 were built between January and June 1958.
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The S-1 and S-3 are distinguishable externally from the very similar S-2 and S-4 1,000 horsepower (750 kW) switchers in that they have a smaller exhaust stack with a round base and a smaller radiator shutter area on the nose sides. The S-1/S-3 radiator shutter area is taller than it is wide, while the S-2/S-4 radiator area is wider. The smaller stack is due to the lack of turbocharging.
The S-10 is not externally distinguishable from later Canadian-built S-3 locomotives; it differed mostly in electrical equipment.
The S-1 and S-3 models were sold to an extensive list of railroads and industrial operators, as detailed below. Major owners of the S-1 included the New York Central Railroad (NYC), with 71 locomotives; the New Haven with 65 locomotives; the L&N with 45 locomotives; the C&NW, with 29 locomotives; and the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) with 27 locomotives. Major customers for the S-3 included the CP, with 101; the CN, with 49; the NYC, with 43 locomotives; the B&M, with 16; and the PRR, with 13. The MLW S-10 was sold only to the CP.
The totals below include export orders and MLW-built locomotives.
Railroad | Quantity | Road numbers | Notes |
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Alameda Belt Line |
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Alco (plant switcher) |
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Alco (demonstrator) |
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American Steel and Wire |
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Ann Arbor Railroad |
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ARMCO Steel |
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway |
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad |
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Belt Railway of Chicago |
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Birmingham Southern Railroad |
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Boston and Maine Railroad |
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Broward County Port Authority |
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Brunner Mond Corporation |
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Canadian Car and Munitions |
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Sold to Essex Terminal Railway of Windsor Ontario as #101 in 1946. Sold to Don Hearn Co. in Amherstburg Ontario as #200 in 1988. Still under ownership of Mr. Don Hearn, restoration begun by the Southern Ontario Locomotive Restoration Society in 2010. Reportedly the oldest operating diesel under 100T in Canada. |
Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil |
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Central of Georgia Railway |
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Central Railroad of New Jersey |
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Champlain Paper and Fibre |
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Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad |
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Chicago and North Western Railway |
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Chicago Great Western Railway |
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Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway |
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City of Prineville Railway |
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Donner Hanna Coal Company |
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Day and Zimmerman (Iowa Army Ammunition Depot) |
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Defense Plant Corporation |
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Delray Connecting Railroad |
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Des Moines Union Railway |
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Detroit and Mackinac Railway |
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East St. Louis Junction Railroad |
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Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway |
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Erie Railroad |
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Ford Motor Company |
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Great Lakes Steel Corporation |
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Green Bay and Western Railroad |
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Green Bay and Western—Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western Railroad |
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Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad |
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Inland Steel |
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Inland Waterways Corporation |
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Iowa Transfer Railroad |
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John Morrel and Company |
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to Association of American Railroads. Preserved at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum |
Kansas City Terminal Railway |
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Lehigh Valley Railroad |
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Long Island Rail Road |
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407 Restored and Preserved, in use as a tourist train by CMRR |
Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
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Maine Central Railroad |
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Massena Terminal Railroad |
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Minnesota Transfer Railway |
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Missouri Pacific Railroad |
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Missouri Pacific — New Orleans and Lower Coast Railroad |
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Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway |
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Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México |
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Newburgh and South Shore Railway |
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New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad |
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New York New Jersey Rail |
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21-22- scrapped 2006, 23-24 scrapped 1986, 25 became New York Central 8625 on display in Manhattan |
New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois Railroad |
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New York Central Railroad |
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renumbered in 811-957 range |
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (“Nickel Plate Road”) |
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to Norfolk and Western Railway 2085 |
Northern Pacific Railway |
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renumbered 603 |
Northern Pacific Terminal |
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30-31 sold to Yreka Western in '63 and renumbered 603-604 |
Pennsylvania Railroad |
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Point Comfort and Northern Railway |
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Port Huron and Detroit Railroad |
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Portland Terminal CompanyMaine |
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Procter & Gamble |
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Preserved by the Whitewater Valley RR, Connersville, IN, as NYC 9339 |
Pullman Railroad |
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Reading Company |
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Red River Ordnance Depot |
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Preserved by the Feather River Rail Society, Portola, California |
Republic Steel |
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River Terminal Railway |
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St. Louis and O'Fallon Railway |
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Seaboard Air Line |
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to Seaboard Coast Line Railroad |
Sheffield Steel Corporation |
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Solvay Processing Division, Allied Chemical |
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South Buffalo Railway |
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Southern Pacific Company |
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Southern Railway |
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Southern Railway — Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway |
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Southern Railway — Alabama Great Southern Railroad |
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South Omaha Terminal Railway |
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Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway |
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Steel Company of Wales (UK) |
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please see UK locomotives below |
Studebaker |
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Tennessee Central Railway |
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Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company |
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Tennessee Copper |
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Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis |
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Texas and New Orleans Railroad |
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to Southern Pacific |
Texaco |
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Texas City Terminal Railway |
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Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans |
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Timken Rolling Bearing Company |
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Toledo, Angola and Western Railway |
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Traux Truer Coal |
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Union Railroad |
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Upper Merion and Plymouth Railroad |
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U.S. Army |
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U.S. War Department |
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Wabash Railroad |
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Weirton Steel |
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Western Maryland Railway |
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Western Pacific Railroad |
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Youngstown Sheet and Tube |
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Total | 550 |
Railroad | Quantity | Road numbers | Notes |
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Aluminum Company of America |
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Ann Arbor Railroad |
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Boston and Maine Railroad |
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Brooks and Scanlon |
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Champion Paper |
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Chicago and North Western Railway |
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Davenport, Rock Island and North Western Railway |
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Davidson Chemical Division, W.R. Grace and Company |
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El Dorado and Wesson Railway |
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Ford Motor Company |
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Frederick Snare Corporation |
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General Portland Cement |
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Graysonia, Nashville and Ashdown Railroad |
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Greater Portland Public Development Corporation |
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Humble Oil |
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
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Maine Central Railroad |
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Manistique and Lake Superior Railroad |
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Mount Hood Railroad |
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New York Central Railroad |
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renumbered into 9300s and 9400s |
Pennsylvania Railroad |
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Solvay Processing Division, Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation |
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Southern Pacific Company |
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Swift and Company |
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Texas and Northern Railway |
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Texas City Terminal Railway |
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Texaco |
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Washington, Idaho and Montana Railway |
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West Pittston and Exeter Railway |
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Total | 137 |
Railroad | Quantity | Road numbers | Notes |
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Montreal Locomotive Works (demonstrator) |
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CP7004 | to Price Brothers 106 |
Bathhurst Power and Paper |
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Canadian Arsenals |
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Canadian National Railway |
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8450–8498 | |
Canadian Pacific Railway |
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6500–6600 | |
Essex Terminal Railway |
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LaSalle Coke |
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National Harbours Board |
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D2–D9 | |
Total | 163 |
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Canadian Pacific Railway |
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Quite a few S1s still survive in operation with shortline railroads in the United States. Several more are preserved at US railroad museums.
The Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad in Stockton, California still uses an S1, although the locomotive, former Western Pacific 505, is now considered a back-up to the railroad's primary locomotives.
Three S1s are preserved at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California: Western Pacific locos 504 and 506 and a former U. S. Army locomotive painted to represent a Western Pacific locomotive.
The former Procter & Gamble #9, repainted as NYC 9339, is, as of 2008, in regular use on the Whitewater Valley RR in Connersville, IN.
The former Hutchinson & Northern S-1 #4 is currently (2009) in operation in excursion service on the Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad in Abilene, KS.
A Canadian S3 has been restored to original condition and is on display at the Saskatchewan Railway Museum.
The Alexander Railroad headquartered in Taylorsville, North Carolina operates 2 S3's, numbers #6 and #7.
The former LIRR/SIRT 407 is currently in operation on the Catskill Mountain Railroad as CMRR #407.
USAX 7177 is preserved at the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden, Utah. This locomotive was assigned to Hill Air Force Base before retirement.
Of the locos that were shipped to the UK for use by the Steel Company of Wales at Margam the current position is:
801 was bought for preservation from European Metal Recycling,[1] Kingsbury, Warwickshire by Northumbria Rail Ltd.[2] and was moved to Longhoughton Goods Yard where restoration is taking place with assistance from members of The UK ALCo Group.[3] It was the first UK ALCo to be restarted and moved under its own power and it will eventually see use on the Aln Valley Railway.
802 was scrapped.
803 is recorded as a long term restoration project. It is currently owned by The American Railroad Centre in the UK and is stored temporarily at the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway in Oxfordshire.
804 is currently under overhaul at Railworld in Peterborough UK, again with assistance from members of The UK ALCo Group. 804 was started up for the first time since 1985 on the 4th July 2009.[4] Work is also being carried out on 804 to restore the locomotive to her correct livery by April 2010.
805 was supposedly sent for preservation but no further details are known and it is assumed now scrapped.
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