NASA's shuttle-era locomotives reroutedThe last two of the NASA Railroad EMD SW1500 locomotives at the Kennedy Space Center have been delivered to new homes on short line railroads.
Locomotive no. 1 will be put into use by the Natchitoches Parish Port in Louisiana. Locomotive no. 3 will be used by the Madison Railroad in Indiana for regular freight service and passenger excursion train service.
Locomotive no. 2 was earlier delivered to the Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami, Florida for restoration and eventual use.
All three locomotives were originally acquired by NASA in 1983 from the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad. They were used primarily to carry the solid rocket booster segment cars and flight hardware on the NASA Railroad for the space shuttle program.