Ex-GB&W C-424 #313 has fresh coat of paint on the Minnesota
      Commercial Railway.
       
      GB&W locomotive #313 was traded to the Minnesota
      Commercial Railway in 1993 and has been working on that railroad ever
      since.  In September 2008 the MNNR gave #313 a fresh coat of paint,
      but kept several distinctive GB&W visual traits including the white
      checkerboard pattern on the black side sills. 
      That is MNNR engineer and GB&WHS
      member Adam Clussman at the throttle of #313 in Midway Yard.  Adam
      grew up in Wisconsin Rapids and had the GB&W mainline near the
      backyard of his house. Adam got attached to the big red Alcos by the time
      he knew how to ride a bike, and he befriended GB&W engineer Frank
      Fitzgerald and other employees. He was hired by the MNNR in 2004 and
      qualified as an engineer in 2006 - due in part to the inspiration Frank
      Fitzgerald an other employees gave him as a child. Now he's operating the
      same locomotives they ran! 
      That's slug T1 behind the #313. It is usually found with the #313, and
      is nicknamed "Sluggo." It was originally Baltimore & Ohio
      #901, a Baldwin
      AS-16 road switcher.  |