Durango & Silverton No. 1203

D&SNG No. 1203 is a DE75CT (80-tonner) type narrow gauge diesel locomotive built by H. K. Porter, Inc. in January 1946, originally for export to Pakistan. When the plans to export the locomotive to Pakistan fell through, it was sold to the United States Gypsum Corporation in Plaster City, CA on July 5, 1947.
In November 1979, it was sold to Huckleberry Railroad in Genesee Township, MI, near Flint. It would continue to operate there until being retired from service in August 1990 due to serious mechanical issues. It sat in storage for several years until being sold in February 2005 to the Colorado Historical Society for the Georgetown Loop Railroad. It was then moved to the Sumpter Valley Railway in Sumpter, OR for restoration to operating condition.
Restoration work started in 2005 and was later completed in 2007, after which, it was moved back to the Georgetown Loop Railroad and began running tourist excursion trains between Georgetown and Silver Plume, CO. In March 2017, it was traded to the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) in Durango, CO in exchange for GE 92-tonner center-cab type diesel No. 9. As of today, it continues to operate both work trains and occasional tourist excursion trains at the D&SNG alongside their other narrow gauge locomotives. In 2022, it received all new wiring so it can MU with the D&SNG's former White Pass & Yukon Route (WP&Y) DL-535E type narrow gauge diesels, Nos. 101, 103, 106, and 107, which they acquired in April 2020.
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Category:Built in 1946
Category:Diesel locomotives
Category:Locomotives
Category:Narrow gauge
Category:Narrow-gauge diesel locomotives
Category:Narrow-gauge locomotives
Category:Narrow-gauge
Category:Porter locomotives
Category:United States
Category:American locomotives
Category:Durango & Silverton locomotives
Category:Preserved diesel locomotives