Looking for a home for a 1929 De La Vergne engine

trainspot · **Posted:** Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:11 am

I recieved the following email:

"I have worked on a pre Baldwin Motor Works De LaVergne se model 1929 for the last 18 years.
This eng is a prime mover of a dredge pump on the NYS Canal system and has been running for the last 81 years. The old girl is still in good running condition and and is being retired. I would love to see some museum get and I could restore her before she is in too bad of shape. "

Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions?

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kevin kohls · **Joined:** Tue May 03, 2005 8:35 pm **Posts:** 298

You could start with the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and perhaps the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
Beyond that, maybe a group of dedicated engine collectors could find a home for the old girl. It looks like you have done a great job of caring for it !!!!

Kevin

Mike Tillger · **Posted:** Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:13 pm

Might try this group, they have rescued several large engine.
http://www.roughandtumble.org/

Mike Tillger

PCook · **Joined:** Sat Jul 02, 2005 7:16 am **Posts:** 2127

I will also pass the word around. There was a Winton of comparable age running in a marine installation in New York until recently. There is a hidden world of decommissioned engines in the basements of large buildings in big cities that wait silently for the day that the wrecking crew arrives.

The New York Museum of Transportation not too far away at Rush NY has the cutaway ALCO 244 and the cutaway EMD 567B that toured the system on the Erie Railroad's Centennial Display Train in 1951 and were later used for many years to train the railroad's diesel service personnel.

For any who might be interested, total annual diesel engine production by all manufacturers in the US around 1929 was in the area of 4000 engines a year.

PC

Nova55 · **Joined:** Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:09 pm **Posts:** 597

Unfortunately I think the Wintons were lost.

PCook · **Joined:** Sat Jul 02, 2005 7:16 am **Posts:** 2127

You may be right Nova55, I haven't seen any postings by the chief engineer on that vessel anywhere on the internet lately.

PC

Brian Norden · **Posted:** Sun Feb 14, 2010 3:59 pm

The Circle Line did obtain new tour ships a year or so ago to replace the converted ex-military vessels.

The Circle Line Vessel ex-USCGC Calypso is the one that has a website noting it and its Winton diesels.
See:http://w4olf.com/wpc104/index.htm and see the page: SAVE THE CALYPSO !!!

The publication Professional Mariner in its annual American Ship Review for 2008-09 carried an article-- CIRCLE LINE MANHATTAN: Low bridges? No problem -- about the new tour boats and the special design requirements.

tyrok1 · **Joined:** Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:46 am **Posts:** 166

This thread reminded me of another engine in need of saving:

http://www.steampunkworkshop.com/skinne ... s-new-home