Wabash No. 1189

The Wabash No. 1189 is an F7A diesel locomotive built by the General Motor Diesel Division (a subsidiary of EMD) in 1953. It was the last F7 ordered by the Wabash and is one of two surviving Wabash F7s.
== History ==
No. 1189 was built at the GMDD plant in London, Ontario, Canada. Out shopped in April 1953, it was the last F7 ordered by the Wabash Railroad. It spent most of its career handling freight trains over the St. Thomas Division of the Wabash between Windsor, ON and Buffalo, NY. In 1964, the Norfolk & Western Railway took over the Wabash and renumbered the locomotive to No. 3725. The N&W retired the 3725 in 1979 and in January 1980 it was sent to the former Wabash shops in Decatur, IL to be scrapped.
In 1982, the N&W donated No. 3725 to the Monticello Railway Museum in nearby Monticello, IL, who placed it on static display. In 1992, the museum completely restored the engine to operational condition and returned it to its original appearance as Wabash No. 1189. Dedicated on August 15 of that year, No. 1189 currently serves as one of the museum's regular excursion locomotives and pulls museum trains several times a year. In 2014, it participated in the Streamliners at Spencer event at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC, along with MRYM's other streamlined diesel locomotive, former Canadian National FPA-4 No. 6789. After the Spencer event, it was sent to the Norfolk Southern's Juniata Diesel Shop in Altoona, PA for mechanical work donated by NS. It returned to MRYM in October 2014.
Between the early 1990s and 2017, No. 1189 traveled to Decatur every December with No. 6789 and several museum-owned passenger cars to run a special Christmas excursion over the Norfolk Southern between Decatur and Illiopolis, IL for NS employees and their family and friends. Due to NS' new PTC requirements and MRYM not wanting to install PTC on their locomotives, this operation was discontinued after the 2017 excursions.
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