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    What are some of the oldest diesel locomotives still in service today?

    I think I misread your question originally. I gave you the oldest operating diesels, but for "regular duty" on major railroads, it's a different story. The real oldies are mostly on shortline operations, like SMS with its Baldwin fleet in Swedesboro, NJ, Dardanelle & Russellville with 1940s...
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    What are some of the oldest diesel locomotives still in service today?

    The oldest operating diesel in the US is probably Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 426, one of two switchers built by Electro-Motive Corporation in 1935, prior to official introduction of the pioneering SC model. These experimental prototypes were the first endcab switchers produced by what later...


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