Do we have a listing of what remains at Noblesville?

The most notable things I think are the four Milwaukee Road F units, three A units and one B unit. I don't know what happened to the Baldwin switcher.

The only F left in Noblesville is NKP painted 83. The others have had their engines, generator's and trucks removed and are sitting in a parking lot somewhere up by Wabash, In. ( Rich Valley). The VO 1000 is still at Forest Park, as well as ex UP GP9 200. Ex NKP Geep 426 at the park as well.

Reports indicate that known culprits in the Fort Wayne area absconded with an ABA set of Milwaukee Road F-units (F7A No. 72, B-Unit, and EMD F7B No. 68), one PRR hopper, and one NKP wooden boxcar, among other items.

Official details to follow...

If I didn’t know any better, I’d think you’ve got inside info Kelly…

Very good news, I figured they were goners. Reportedly the roof hatches are off and the units are on cribbing because the PM's/generators and trucks were removed for transport, a good idea for groups with the ability to do so needing to move a unit, because I'll bet the various pieces all fall under the weight requirements to get special, expensive permits. The last F unit, 83A, is still at Forrest Park and apparently is owned by Noblesville, but it is a runner and so it likely won't be cut. Ex-Union Pacific GP-9 #200 also remains, it also is a runner, and is one of the units UP added a turbocharger to before EMD came out with the GP20. The Baldwin painted as a Nickel Plate unit was a runner until ITM ran it in water and at least one traction motor is bad. Photo ATSF616 from the Indiana RRs board ("West Plains Mining limestone operation at Rich Valley, between Peru and Wabash. They were visible today from old US24.")

Wheeling and Lake Erie Office Car Huron leaving Forrest Park, John Owen photo.

It's good to see the Milw F units being saved. I thought they would have been goners by now.

What happened to the BN steam gen/Ex F3 unit?

Shame the UP #200 hasn't found a new home. I think it would be a fitting piece on the Nevada Southern Railway or the Heber Valley RR. Maybe on the rebuilt portion of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad.

The Baldwin has it's best chance of being saved if SMS picks it up. SMS being the only operator of historic Baldwin diesels nowadays. They could get it running most likely with the spare parts they have on the back lot.

Robert

The BN steam gen/b-unit was an asbestos party. The city began dismantling of that last week, as well as some asbestos-ridden reefers that were still on site.

I'm forced to wonder if they're using the same overwrought precautionary measures against the "A-word" as they would demand of any private party wanting to dismantle it. I've heard a few stories of "double standards" where apparently such action by a government entity suddenly and mysteriously eliminates the formerly perceived "need" to treat the stuff like the remains of Chernobyl's bad reactor.............

One other question, was everything in Logansport scrapped? (Other than the Monon caboose and boxcar that went to HVRM).
I heard rumblings of some groups trying to save one or two certain pieces but never heard anything come of that.

Plenty in Logansport did get destroyed. It's maddening to think so much was removed and hustled up north just to get turned into dust.

However, a few freight cars were saved. My last visit in Logansport revealed 4-5 pieces were left - a Budd stainless RPO, an older and largely wrecked passenger car of east coast origin (EL?), a few boxcars.

We'll be assisting the city in getting two freight cars out as soon as contracts from the mover are received.

Regarding vitamin A in Noblesville, we looked at the reefers and B-unit ourselves, but the concerns were big enough that neither we nor other parties wanted to mess with them.

PRR sleeping car Philadelphia County left Forrest Park yesterday, three photos John Owen. The trucks are being inspected before the car is placed back on them for rail movement. Mr. Owen and the Louisville Railroad Company group are responsible for saving this car, part of PRR's Fleet of Modernism, as well as the wood ex-W&LE business car that went to the Colebrookdale Railroad.

Update on the Philadelphia County:

A seemingly last-ditch, eleventh-hour-and-55th-minute effort to save this PRR sleeper.

https://www.facebook.com/donate/3057592 ... 430520135/

Mr. Owen on Facebook yesterday:

Why is it currently in Monon, Indiana as of May 2022?
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=5767374



For reference, Philadelphia County is currently on a spur off of the LIRC in Southport, Indiana.