Louisiana & Delta locomotive 1505 is a former ATSF CF7, originally built as ATSF F7A 269L in Nov 1953. It was rebuilt by Santa Fe to as CF7 2590 in Dec 1972. It was subsequently sold to Allegheny Railroad as their engine 103. It was later relettered as Alleghany and Eastern engine 303 after the acquisition of the line by Genesee & Wyoming in 1992. It came to L&D in 1993 and was assigned number LDRR 1505, however, it ran for many years unaltered. It finally had LDRR 1505 painted on its cab in an effort to standardize the fleet. This was the blue engine with the angled cab.

LDRR 1505

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