Portland & Western No. 1853

Portland and Western No. 1853 (formerly known as Southern Pacific No. 1532) nicknamed "Forest Grove" is an EMD SD9m (formerly an EMD SD7R) that was built by the Electro-Motive Division (EMD) originally for the Southern Pacific Railroad in January 1955.

History[]

Portland and Western No. 1853 was constructed in January 1955 and was delivered to the Southern Pacific Railroad that same year in 1955.

Upon being delivered in 1955, it was originally numbered by the Southern Pacific as #5288, but would later be renumbered to #2709, it would eventually be renumbered again to 1402 until being rebuilt into an EMD SD7R and renumbered to its final number of 1532.

It remained in service on the Southern Pacific until it would be retired from service and has survived into preservation, it was later rebuilt into an EMD SD9M and was donated to the Portland and Western Railroad (PNWR) where it was renumbered by the PNWR as #1853 and given the nickname "Forest Grove".

Sometime before 2009, 1853 collided with a string of railcars in Sheridan and suffered a bent frame. PNWRs shop crews tried to fix the locomotive, however the damage was too bad to save it. It was scrapped by 2009.

References[]

https://www.thedieselshop.us/Portlnd&Wsn.HTML

See also[]

Locomotives of the Portland and Western Railroad
EMD SW1200m:	1201
EMD SW1500:	1551 • 1552
EMD GP9:	1801 • 1802 • 1803
EMD SD7:	1501
EMD SD9:	1851 • 1852 • 1853 • 1854
EMD GP38m:	2005 • 2152
EMD GP39-2:	2301 • 2302 • 2303 • 2304 • 2305 • 2306 • 2307 • 2308 • 2309 • 2310 • 2311 • 2312 • 2313 • 2314 • 2315 • 2316 • 2317
EMD GP40P-2:	3001 • 3002
EMD GP40:	3003 • 3004 • 3005 • 3006 • 3007
EMD SD40M-2:	3051 • 3052
EMD SD40-2:	3369
EMD SD40-3:	3300
EMD GP38-2:	3532
EMD SD45-2:	3601 • 3602 • 3603 • 3604