strange GP39-2s - Trains Magazine

The then MK Rail company built our MK1500Ds and delivered the first one of our order in 1996, they are numbers for the year they were deliverd and then the order they showed up on property, hence the 9601 was delivered in 1996, and the first one deliverd to us.

The basic MK1500D had been around for 2 years while MK shopped it around for customers,

New Orleans Public Belt has the lease/test unit, the 1501, which we borrowed to try the design out in 1994/95.

If memory serves me, it tested on the Chicago Belt also...