Delaware tourist carrier Wilmington & Western Railroad rolled out its Semiquincentennial locomotive – SW-1 1776 – on July 4, for one of the largest fireworks displays in the region. It’s perhaps the oldest diesel to wear an “America 250” livery. Built by EMC in 1940 as Lehigh Valley Railroad 114, it served the Maryland Port Authority and short-lived tourist operator Ocean City Western Railroad before coming to the W&W (also as number 114) in the…
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