NSRM NW2 1000 od Robert W. Thomson

On February 24, 2016, my friend and business partner David Kane took me to visit the Nevada Southern/Nevada State Railroad Museum in Boulder City, Nevada. Naturally, I walked out and forgot my camera, so the next couple of days will be all cell phone foam. NSRM NW2 1000 (ex-UP 1000, xx-SN 607, xxx-WP 607, xxxx-STE 1000, xxxxx-UP 1000, nee-EMC 889). This well-traveled NW2 was built in 1939 as EMC demonstrator #889. It served a six-month demo period with the Union Pacific and at the end of that term, UP bought the unit and numbered it #1000. This made it the first ever diesel-electric unit purchased by UP and over the next two years, UP would purchase another 44 NW2s. The unit was retired by UP in 1966 and sold to Stockton Terminal & Eastern. STE eventually traded the unit to the Western Pacific, who completely rebuilt it. WP transfered the unit to subsidiary Sacremento Northern. After the WP-UP merger, the unit returned to UP ownership for the first time in nearly 20 years. It was retired by UP again in 1984 and came to the Nevada State Railroad Museum in 1993. The musuem currently has plans to repaint the unit into it's original black paint scheme. While at the museum, I got to participate in their Engineer for an Hour program, thanks to my buddy David, and this was the unit I got drive. I feel very lucky to have gotten to sit at the controls of this historic engine. Samsung Galaxy S7