Built at the Plymouth Locomotive Works of Plymouth, Ohio, number 2003
is a propane-electric unit used in short line freight service on the
Joplin-Pittsburg Railroad and later on the Kansas City Public Service
Freight Operation (as # 1). It weights 140,000 lbs., has a maximum
speed of 35 mph and contains four 110 h.p. Westinghouse motors.
Number 2003 was donated in 1964 by James G. Ashley, Sr. of Kansas
City Public Service Freight Operation.
Did You Realize: The Museum of Transportation in West St. Louis County,
Missouri, houses"…one of the largest and best collections of transportation
vehicles in the world." according to the Smithsonian Institution.
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