Preservation of a Sort in Alabama

railfan44 · **Posted:** Sat Mar 02, 2013 3:52 am

Anybody following this? Where did they get the cars and loco?
http://www.al.com/business/index.ssf/20 ... ost_1.html

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Sat Mar 02, 2013 4:04 am

I seem to recall a thread a while back on some sort of rail-themed "wedding chapel" with an ex-Pennsy E-8 that had been on the Blue Mountain & Reading. This looks like it could be the equipment that was there in the thread.

Other photos, featuring what is definitely a Pennsy E-unit:

http://photos.al.com/4461/gallery/grant ... index.html

davew833 · **Posted:** Sat Mar 02, 2013 4:10 am

Sure does look like ex-PRR E8A #5706 that was once on the RBM&N as mentioned above and was "preserved" as some kind of wedding chapel with other miscellaneous equipment not far away in Sumiton, AL.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=2703903

Charlie · **Posted:** Sat Mar 02, 2013 4:40 am

Aw dang, there goes my only reason for getting married...

Here's a thread describing the 5706 and other cars:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30479&hilit=5706

EDM · **Posted:** Sat Mar 02, 2013 7:09 am

Ask some of the people in Boonton, NJ how the shops in the LIRR Ping-Pongs worked out. I don't have a lot of hope for this being a commercial success, but I've been wrong before.

Trainlawyer · **Posted:** Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:33 pm

From a quick look at the articles and a fly-over using Google and Bing maps this doesn't look like a Boonton situation. The mall has two major anchors and several smaller stores and is going to have some municipal offices. I would suspect the rail equipment is being placed there as a draw rather than as retail space.
GME

Bob Davis · **Joined:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:25 am **Posts:** 1025

How about a "Big Red" wedding chapel? Two differents couples in the Orange Empire family have been married aboard PE 418.