Louisville and Indiana No. 9321 was an EMD SW1200 switcher diesel locomotive built by the Electro-Motive Division originally for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) in 1957.
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Louisville and Indiana No. 9321 was constructed in 1957 by the Electro-Motive Division and it was delivered to the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) that same year in 1957. Upon being delivered to the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, DL&W had numbered it to #562.
When the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad had merged with the Erie Railroad to create the Erie Lackawanna Railway in 1960, Erie Lackawanna had renumbered the locomotive to #457, when Erie Lackawanna Railway had filed for bankruptcy in 1976 and the freight lines from EL were taken over by Conrail, Conrail renumbered it to #9321.
No. 9321 served well on the lines taken over by Conrail until being retired from active service and was donated to the Louisville and Indiana Railroad where it served under ownership of that railroad until being sent to the New York and Atlantic Railway. Unfortunately, the SW1200 was not used much due to its reliability issues and only ran for a couple of years before being sidelined with several mechanical issues. It was moved to a storage track within Fresh Pond Yard where it sat for over nine years before being moved again to the Heritage Paper track on the Bay Ridge Branch in 2017.
Due to it being in poor condition, along with the mechanical issues and coupled with the fact it was vandalized with graffiti, the SW1200 was moved to Gershow Recycling and was sadly scrapped at Gershow Recycling on January 28, 2020.
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