UNIT DETAIL Model: GP8 Built: Mar 1953 (EMD) Rebuilt: May 1969 Horsepower: 1600 Frame #: 6496-2 Builders #: 17728 IAIS Acqd: Feb 1985 IAIS Paint: n/a
IAIS 469 HISTORY Rept Marks From To Notes KJRY 806 ??? ??? PREX 806 ??? ??? IAIS 469 1987 Sep 1994 Returned to Helm as part of 1994 power refinance IAIS 7969 Feb 1985 1987   ICG 7969 May 1969 Feb 1985 Rebuilt to GP8 at Paducah and renumbered 7969 IC 8969 Mar 1953 May 1969 Built as GP7

Notes:

• Exactly where/when the unit became PREX 806 and KJRY 806 is in question. I've seen a photo confirming KJRY lettering on a Pioneer Rail black / yellow locomotive taken in 2000, so I would suspect that PREX came before KJRY.