Anyone who has tried to move a piece of equipment lately with Friction bearings will know this is "Next" to impossible with out taking extreme measures (Trucking, Flatcar or the like). Likewise we are speaking of a Locomotive which complicates things even more. The major reason the M&StL guys have yet to move or act on the RS-1 is COST, The cost of providing roller trucks on loan from a third party source and the cost of craning RS-1 for new trucks on each end of movement and the cost of the movement it's self are the issues. Cost Cost Cost, it's not as simple as lets just switch them and repaint them as mentioned above. The reason the relevant groups who could properly display the RS-1 have not acted yet is that they are all addressing cost issues and priorities in there respective collections. I've worked with and talked to some of these groups about the preservation of this unit, I've even worked on locating roller bearing trucks for them, but as of right now the unit is in a museum and is not in a direct threat of being lost so as you can imagine the interest in this project is not dead just currently on a back burner.
Image of Locomotive in Question:
This is the M&StL RS-1 that is up for preservtion at National Transportation Museum (St. Louis, MO)
M&StL 213
Minneapolis & St.Louis 546
