MON 513 meete Scrapper's Torch

[Robert Wheeler]

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The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Historical Society Electronic Newsletter - November 2015

L&N C420 1330 [MON 513] Meets the Scrapper’s Torch
On October 16, 2015 poster “Bobby T” reported on the IlliniRail mailing list that MALX 1330 was recently scrapped on-site at Prairie Central Co-Op in Pontiac, Illinois after suffering a mechanical failure. This Alco C420--which was feature in the April special edition of this newsletter--was delivered as Monon 513 in August 1967. It became L&N 1330 after Monon merger. It was sold to Chrome Crankshaft in 1982. Its L&N nose herald was still discernible when last observed by this author in March of this year.

Contributed by Jeffrey Carlyle

I quote without comment.

Bob Wheeler, PE, Archivist Emeritus
rewheeler@iquest.net

[Ryan Rybarczyk]

Such a shame.

[Heath Matthias]

That was the engine featured in the current calendar last month, correct?  Sad...