Photo courtesy of Jeff Childs
EMD GP7u was built in 1951 (builder #15707) for the U.S. Army, #1837.
The Alaska Railroad acquired it in 1977 and numbered it 1837 (later #1809).
It was sold to General Metals (Anchorage, AK) in 1998, to BDLX in 1999,
to Midwest Locomotive in 1999 and finally to the Missouri Central.
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the current status of these locomotives