| Dunn Roadbuilders Railroad GP8 1535 was photographed at their material yard in Meridian, Mississippi. The locomotive was built as Frisco GP7 513 in June 1950 and was sold to Precision National Corp. in February 1975. PNC sold the unit to Agrico for use at their phosphate operation in the BONE VALLEY of central Florida, and ICG rebuilt it into a GP8 in July 1975. The identity of the 1535 changed with that of the facility, first to IMC-Agrico and then to Mosaic. It was sold to dealer Rail Trusts Equipment, Inc. in 2006, where it became RTEX 1535 and then went to Dunn Roadbuilders. Dunn was formed in 1878 as a railroad construction company in Virginia, and is now headquartered in Laurel, Mississippi. |