| Precision National Corporation SD24 6340 on the Burlington Northern at Clyde, Illinois on an unknown day in September 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Number 6340 was built in November 1959 as Southern Railway SD24 2521 (c/n 25617) on EMD Order 5606, renumbered by the Southern in 1972 to 6340. It was sold to PNC in January 1978 along with 40 other retired Southern SD24's, joining PNC's lease fleet, this unit and several others were leased to the BN during 1979. During 1982 this unit was sold to the ICG, rebuilt at Paducah, Kentucky and became ICG SD20 2036. |