Union RR

The URR was an original owner, it acquired these models new from Baldwin:
VO1000, DRS6-6-1500, AS616

  • see Baldwin Quarterly Magazine article: "CONVERSION of a Heavy-Duty Switching Road to Diesel Power"

    VO1000

    Union RR 501
    Baldwin photo #11928-1     		501

    VO1000
    c/n 62405, b/d 10/1940

    - built as Union RR #501
    - to the P&BR as #357

    DRS6-6-1500

    All repowered by EMD with a 16-567D1 in the late 1950s - early 1960s
    nose chopped early 1970s
    painted green 1971, painted blue 1975
    retired by early 1980s

    Union RR 608
    Baldwin photo #13748-1
    - BDZ collection         		608

    DRS6-6-1500
    c/n 74220, b/d 02/1949

    - built as Union RR #608
    - renumbered 613 before delivery

    Union RR 614 614

    DRS6-6-1500
    c/n 74221, b/d 02/1949

    - built as Union RR #609
    - renumbered 614 before delivery
    photo by: Unknown
    - collection of Mark Laundry
    Hall, PA - Oct. 23, 1967

    Union RR 616 616

    DRS6-6-1500
    c/n 74216, b/d 02/1949

    - built as Union RR #616
    Blackhawk Films slide
    (Fred Byerly collection)
    - collection of Mark Laundry
    Hall, PA - May 31, 1969

    Union RR 620 620

    DRS6-6-1500
    c/n 74696, b/d 10/1949

    - built as Union RR #620
    Photo by: David H. Hamley
    - collection of Ryan Kertis
    Miffin Cross Roads, PA - Sept. 30, 1973

    Union RR 621 621

    DRS6-6-1500
    c/n 74696, b/d 10/1949

    - built as Union RR #621
    photo by: Rob Yanosey
    - collection of Mark Laundry
    Hall, PA - Oct. 1978

    Union RR 622 622

    DRS6-6-1500
    c/n 74698, b/d 10/1949

    - built as Union RR #622
    Photo by: David H. Hamley
    - collection of Ryan Kertis
    Miffin Cross Roads, PA - Sept. 30, 1973

    AS616

    Union RR 625
    photo credit: Joe Pratt
    - collection of Mark Laundry
    Memphis, TN - July 6, 1959     		625

    AS616
    c/n 75165, b/d 06/1951

    - built as Union RR #625
    - sold for scrap 1964



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