| ...for me, at least. This is one of the newest additions to the IRM collection; rescued from the NRE boneyard at Silvis, IL in the late fall of 2022. It was quickly returned to operational condition, with some touch-ups to the paint and the application of new cab-side heralds and a C&NW-appropriate 3-chime Leslie horn. Some say the SD50 isn't worth preserving because it was a relative lemon of a unit from EMD. I vehemently disagree, first off the fact that this unit survived for so long in C&NW colors without being repainted alone makes it worth preserving, second it makes a worthy partner with the 6847 in recreating the ubiquitous multi-unit EMD lashups that diesel-era C&NW railfans remember from the early 1980s through the falling of the flag in the mid-'90s. |