PFE Switcher 1048

Photo courtesy of Craig Walker.

Pacific Fruit Express NW2 No. 1048 began life as Union Pacific 1048. It is seen here at the PFE shops in Tucson, Arizona, on September 12, 1981. Russell Eslick photograph.

Bob Chaparro

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Rich Sievers commented:

The unit is now privately owned and has been stored out-of-service for many, many years at an abandoned grain elevator next to the UP main track in Strasburg, Colorado, east of Denver.

Its reporting marks are 'MCRX 1048', standing for Markus Rail Transport.