[thegift]

Could someone please help me to identify the locomotive on the picture below. This photo is all I have and I need to know the brand/make of the locomotive so I could search the net for blueprints or better/different angle pictures of the locomotive. I have to build a 3D model of the locomotive - quite difficult task if I only have this photo as a reference. Thanks so much!

 

[Boston&Maine]

Boy, this is a toughie... Do you happen to know what railroad the switcher (the general type of this locomotive) is from? Based on all of my searching, I am coming up with it definitely being an EMD switcher, but I can not find an exact match... The EMD SW1000 is the closest thing I could find to the image you pictured... The EMD SW1500 is also somewhat close, but it has two smoke stacks instead of one...

 

[thegift]

Wow, that was fast Thanks a lot, Boston&Maine, that's an excellent point to start my search from Unfortunately I have no clue about the company that operates the locomotive (if I have understood your question correctly). I'm almost certain that this photo has been taken in NYC... and I can also see a big blue letter M on the side.
Anyway, I have googled for SW 1000 and 1500 and I have found a few pictures which (although do not look exactly the same) are quite close to the locomotive on the reference photo... and that's a big help. Thank you so much!

 

[T-Man]

Well the bell and stack appear like a SW -7. The front Lights look like the SW 1500 but not exact. Your switcher is definitely smaller/older.
EMD Link I used.
Penn used a lot pehaps something can be found with that road name.

 

[stationmaster]

Looks like a SW1 to me.

http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/4/8/2/5482.1239745951.jpg

 

[B.C.RAIL]

Found it!!
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgu...r&gbv=2&ndsp=18&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&start=108

Happens to be a EMD SW1001.
The same unit too..lol #107 from Long Island railroad.
The photo I found of it seems newer because of added ditch lights.

 

[thegift]

B.C.Rail,
Yes! That's it! Thank you all guys, that was a huge help and I appreciate it very much.
With the first search in google I have already found a whole bunch of pictures. That's all I need. For those who may be interested, here are a couple of links with reference pics/drawings:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoList.aspx?mid=77
http://yardlimit.railfan.net/emd/spotting/index.html

Thank you, guys!

 

[B.C.RAIL]

No problem at all.

 

[Boston&Maine]

Happens to be a EMD SW1001.
The same unit too..lol #107 from Long Island railroad.
The photo I found of it seems newer because of added ditch lights.

Good find! I could not tell in the original picture if the number was 107 or 207

 

[B.C.RAIL]

I went to google and typed in emd switcher and it came up on the 7th page.

Just lucky.

 

[Southern]

This is one of the reasons that I love this forum