EMD SW7, any still running? - Model Railroader Magazine

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Kalmbach makes a "Diesel Spotter's Guide" that it updates every couple of years. A good idea is to pick up an old one (ebay, railroad flea market etc.) from the time you model. I have one from 1986 that has a lot of good info on what was still running then.

Stix, I think the Diesel Spotter's Guide is no longer updated by Kalmbach, but is now a Withers Publishing product (they do a lot of roster books) and the most recent one I know of is 2008.  I think Kalmbach began using the name Contemporary Diesel Spotter's Guide and Withers has continued that.  I agree that the older ones are very much worth holding on to.

Does James Kerr still publish the Locomotive Roster and News booklets?  Those have or had the virtue of fitting nicely into camera bags.  You search by railroad which makes it cumbersome to look for a particular loco model.   I looked in my 2003 edition (I don't buy it every year) under CSX -- no SW7s or 1200s.  Indeed not many endcab switchers at all.

Dave Nelson