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| Author: | Steven Ashley [ Fri Jun 29, 2001 12:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | GSMR (SR) 722 and new FRA regulations |
I have a question, especially to anybody who may work at the Great Smokey Mountains RR or volunteers at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Musuem. I have read before that when 722's boiler course was condemned in November 1985 that the FRA would not allow repairs to make it operational again, which subsequently led to her being stored at the TVRM shops for about 7 years until NS moved the 722 to display at Asheville in 1992 until the property there was sold in 1999 and GSMR purchased the engine in 2000. but today this is possible. I was wondering what changes the FRA made so this is possible. Seeing a genuine SR steam locomotive back in steam for the first time since 4501 last run in proper freight black back in September 1998 is something I am looking forward. Even though she will be converted to oil, I am looking for this beauty to steam again, while in the past I have only ridden the Great Smokey Mountains Railroad I have never tried to chase before, no offense in particular to 1702, it's just US Army locomotives have never been very asthetically pleasing to me, however when 722 comes online next year or 2003 possibly??? I will make plans to do so. Also, I hope to finally be able to see 630 running (or any other Southern steamer in freight black.) before this decade is out and good luck with the recent acquisition of CN 5288, I am glad to see a genuine good sized passenger steamer at TVRM. Also, i am curious if anyone knows what kind of whistle she will carry, possibly a Ps-4 sound alike like the 1702???? 722 Photo from www.GSMR.com under the photo gallery. st82@juno.com |
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| Author: | Steven Ashley [ Fri Jun 29, 2001 12:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Nevermind, that picture didn't work *NM* |
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| Author: | Michael Brown (TVRM) [ Fri Jun 29, 2001 11:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GSMR (SR) 722 and new FRA regulations |
About the whistle... I hope not. Steamboat on a locomotive - yuck! (There are exceptions, but rare - the 611...) BTW, Ps-4's didn't always have steamboat style whistles, just whatever the engineer chose to have. Photographs will reveal to the observer that many varieties were on the Southern passenger engines... possibly the only railroad of any size to have allowed such practices right up until the beginning of hell now known as the coming of the dismal. > I have a question, especially to anybody > who may work at the Great Smokey Mountains > RR or volunteers at the Tennessee Valley > Railroad Musuem. I have read before that > when 722's boiler course was condemned in > November 1985 that the FRA would not allow > repairs to make it operational again, which > subsequently led to her being stored at the > TVRM shops for about 7 years until NS moved > the 722 to display at Asheville in 1992 > until the property there was sold in 1999 > and GSMR purchased the engine in 2000. but > today this is possible. I was wondering what > changes the FRA made so this is possible. > Seeing a genuine SR steam locomotive back in > steam for the first time since 4501 last run > in proper freight black back in September > 1998 is something I am looking forward. Even > though she will be converted to oil, I am > looking for this beauty to steam again, > while in the past I have only ridden the > Great Smokey Mountains Railroad I have never > tried to chase before, no offense in > particular to 1702, it's just US Army > locomotives have never been very > asthetically pleasing to me, however when > 722 comes online next year or 2003 > possibly??? I will make plans to do so. > Also, I hope to finally be able to see 630 > running (or any other Southern steamer in > freight black.) before this decade is out > and good luck with the recent acquisition of > CN 5288, I am glad to see a genuine good > sized passenger steamer at TVRM. Also, i am > curious if anyone knows what kind of whistle > she will carry, possibly a Ps-4 sound alike > like the 1702???? > 722 Photo from www.GSMR.com under the photo > gallery. Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum newriver400@cs.com |
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