Southern Pacific No. 5239

Southern Pacific No. 5239 was a Baldwin AS-616 diesel locomotive that was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Southern Pacific Railroad in September 1950.
==History==
=== Revenue service ===
Southern Pacific No. 5239 was constructed by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in September 1950 and it was delivered to the Southern Pacific Railroad the same year in 1950.
=== Retirement and preservation ===
Southern Pacific No. 5239 was retired from service and had survived into the preservation era, it was sold to the Oregon and Northwestern Railroad where it was renumbered as O&NW #2 in October 1964. But was cannibalized for parts through the last years of operation.
The unit was later stored in 1984 and got sold again to Pacific Northwest Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society October 1990, then got sent to the National Museum of Transportation at St. Louis, Missouri.
=== The end ===
But its career in the preservation era had came to a sudden end when No. 5239 was last seen in storage at Tigard, Oregon until the unit was subsequently scrapped in November 2009 by the Portland and Western Railroad and Rick Franklin Co.
==See also==
*Baldwin AS-616
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