Summer 1991, Milwaukee Road X-5000 Dynamometer car sits at the roundhouse at Shoreham. Built of a surplus heavyweight passenger car it was one of only a few such type cars remaining, it's mostly a steam era relic from when railroads built their OWN steam engines. (It last saw use however when the Milwaukee wanted to test out the new at the time General Electric 'U' series locomotives. It is believed that it may have been the last US railroad to do such tests on a locomotive, let alone a diesel)

X-5000 lives on today at the Illinois Railway Museum!

http://x-5000.org/dynamometer-details/


SOO LINE EMD SW1200 #322 went on to become Vulcan Industries #322 in GA. It was last photographed in 2005 awaiting interchange with NS. Where it went from there is unknown.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/sh......aspx?id=89616


The Shoreham roundhouse still stands, BARELY. Last heated in 1998, its now sans surrounding shops, track and roof and its future isn't clear.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jterry618/6447513845/


Scanned from a Kodak Gold 200ISO print negative.