In the early 1960s the
Reading Company sent all 10 of their VO-660s to
General Motors Electro-Motive Division to have them rebuilt to
SW900 specifications. These locomotives received new frames, cabs, and carbodies, and reused only the trucks and batteries from the VO-660's.[1] Only four intact examples of the VO-660 are known to survive today. One was built as Baldwin 335, the first production VO-660. It was sold by the
Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum to
SMS Lines to be repaired and put back into operation. SMS also owns the former Warner 11, which is being restored before being put into service. The others are
Pickens Railway #2, built in 1946, and
Wyandotte Terminal 103, at the
Illinois Railway Museum. Those two are inoperable at the present time.
first production VO-660; to Standard Steel Division of Baldwin Locomotive Works 12, to Altoona Railroaders Museum, to SMS Rail Lines, under restoration to active service
In the early 1960s the
Reading Company sent all 10 of their VO-660s to
General Motors Electro-Motive Division to have them rebuilt to
SW900 specifications. These locomotives received new frames, cabs, and carbodies, and reused only the trucks and batteries from the VO-660's.[1] Only four intact examples of the VO-660 are known to survive today. One was built as Baldwin 335, the first production VO-660. It was sold by the
Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum to
SMS Lines to be repaired and put back into operation. SMS also owns the former Warner 11, which is being restored before being put into service. The others are
Pickens Railway #2, built in 1946, and
Wyandotte Terminal 103, at the
Illinois Railway Museum. Those two are inoperable at the present time.
first production VO-660; to Standard Steel Division of Baldwin Locomotive Works 12, to Altoona Railroaders Museum, to SMS Rail Lines, under restoration to active service