Belton Railway GP-9

Built by EMD for the Chesapeake & Ohio as #6142 in 1956, this GP9 was traded, sold, stored and used by various railroads and subsidiaries.

In early 1978, the unit was transferred to the Chessie System as #0393. In September 1978, it transferred to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, then
operating as a subsidiary of the CSX, returning to #6142. In late 1987, the unit was officially retired from the B&O and was sold in January 1989 to the Huron and Eastern Railway where it was renumbered #102 and given the name "City of Bad Axe”.

In November 1993, #102 was sold to the Idaho Northern & Pacific Railroad, but because of its poor condition went into storage until it was removed from the roster in the mid-late 1990s.







Sold to Western Rail Dismantlers in Spokane, WA, it was stored in Pocatello, ID, until bought by the Smoky Hill Railway & Historical Society in 1995 on a lease-to-own agreement. In October 1996, a group of investors known as "T-Rex, LLC" bought the lease and, in turn, leased the unit to Smoky Hill Railway & Historical Society at a substantially reduced monthly rate.