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SD60E west of Lilly, PA. (Years-ago photo by Jack Hughes.)

—The June 2019 entry of MY calendar is a photo taken long ago by my brother.
It’s an EMD SD60 rebuilt by Juniata shops (June-eee-AT-uh) with the Crescent cab, etc that make it an SD60E.
The Crescent cab isn’t stock. This locomotive was probably originally the Spartan cab, which isn’t a wide safety cab.
It was made by Curry Supply of Curryville, PA, south of Altoona. The Crescent cab was designed by Norfolk Southern to meet recent FRA crashworthiness standards.
Lots of other modifications and improvements were made to bring EMD’s SD60 up to SD60E standards.
The prime-mover was replaced with a Tier-0 compliant 710 V16 rated at 4,000 horsepower instead of the 3,800 of an SD60. (That’s 710 cubic-inches per cylinder.) — The prime-mover is also turbocharged, as most railroad road-diesel engines are nowadays.
The locomotive also has other improvements, one of which is a split cooling-system designed in-house by Juniata shops personnel. It increases engine efficiency 7%.
Juniata shops is extraordinary. My guess is a primary reason Norfolk Southern wanted the old Pennsy line across PA was to get Juniata shops. Hundreds of cast-off locomotives wait outside to be rebuilt. If it’s a Union Pacific loco, it’s might be an un-repainted Juniata shops rebuild.
My brother likes the Crescent cab, primarily because its brow reminds him of a visored “Advance-Design” Chevy pickup (’47-’53). I hate it; mainly that brow. Every time a train approaches, I hope an SD60E isn’t leading.
The EMD SD60s were due for retirement or rebuild. Converting them to SD60Es makes them comparable to recent road-power.
My brother and I had a wonderful time figuring where he took this picture. South (railroad-west) of Lilly is signal-bridge 254. My brother snapped multiple shots. This photo doesn’t have signal-bridge 254 in it, but his previous shot did.
We surmised many locations for this photo going by lighting. “Can’t be that; the light ain’t right!”
But railroad-east of 254 the light would be as recorded: about noon 1 p.m.