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Titan Locomotive
Display location: Museum rocket garden
Type: Diesel-Electric
Switching Locomotive
Designation: SW-8
Agency: U.S. Air Force
Contractor: General Motors, Electro Motive Division
Launch Complexes:
40,
41, ITL area
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Operations: supported 82
Titan launches 1965-2005
Locomotive number 2021 is on display in the Museum rocket garden. The display includes actual trackage from the Integrate Transfer Launch (ITL) area upon which the locomotive once transported Titan rockets to the launch pad. A complete set of documentation and historical records was transferred to the museum research library along with the locomotive.
Locomotive
number 2021 at work (left) moving a fully loaded mobile
launcher in the Titan Integrate-Transfer-Launch (ITL) area.
After
completion of the last Titan launch, the locomotive was
serviced for display and restored by the Kennedy Space
Center Locomotive shop and moved back to the Titan ITL area.
From the ITL area, the locomotive was lifted onto the back
of a special transporter and moved by road (right) to the
Air Force Space and Missile Museum, a road distance of about 5
miles.
See photographs of the locomotive being moved from the Titan ITL area to the museum.
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