Fourteen railroads bought a total of 117 E6 locomotives, and Palumbo provided nine data cards, two of which were from the same railroad. I’ll present about half today and half tomorrow and do so in the approximate order in which the locomotives on the cards were manufactured.

This painting by Harry Bockewitz is clearly dated 1944.

This locomotive with the odd number of 7-M-1 was delivered in August 1940 and initially used in UP’s Kansas City-Denver corridor. It was later renumbered 953A (and the locomotive behind it, 7-M-2, was renumbered 954A).

Based on the date on this and some of other paintings, I suspect GM didn’t start making locomotive data cards until 1944 or 1945 and had Dedek and Bockewitz paint some earlier locomotives to build up an inventory of such cards. This also explains why some of the locomotives on the early cards are not the first in their series, when later cards almost always portray the first in each locomotive series.

The signature and date on this painting appears to be Bockewitz and 1944.

Baltimore & Ohio was an early purchaser of GM passenger locomotives. E6 number 57, which was manufactured in September, 1940, was the first of seven E6s the railroad bought.

This painting is signed B. Dedek and dated February 4, 1944.

Florida East Coast already had two E3s when it ordered this, the first of three E6s. The locomotive was delivered in December 1940.

This painting is signed B. Dedek and dated February 8, 1944.

Atlantic Coast Line owned two E3s, numbers 500 & 501, and ordered 22 E6s. The first, number 502, was delivered in November 1940, but this one, number 512, was probably not delivered until January 1941.

This painting is unsigned, and while I am less certain about it than some, it was probably by Harry Bockewitz.

Although I wrote above that fourteen railroads bought E6 locomotives, the number increases to sixteen if the joint owners of the City of San Francisco locomotives are counted. Of course, it would have been Union Pacific that planned and purchased the locomotives on the other railroads’ behalf. This locomotive was built in March 1941 and later renumbered 904A. Only the front of this card is available, but the back was probably identical to the card for UP 7-M-1 above.