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Coast Line veteran

By Faith Finfrock | December 16, 2020

| Last updated on August 7, 2025

Atlantic Coast Line E7 No. 526 pauses in Miami in January 1965. The 20-year-old locomotive has had some body panels modified and its fuel-tank skirt removed, and is painted in the railroad’s simplified black scheme.

Photo by Louis A. Marre collection

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Güntürk Üstün says:

September 11, 2025 at 5:46 pm

Still the best selling passenger diesel of all time, EMD’s E7 picked up where the E6 had left off before WWII.

Dr. Güntürk Üstün

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