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Here's a photo of it from last month, the roof came off of an MLW FA that had been parted out and was to be scrapped, replacing a difficult-to-fabricate roof that was damaged when the unit rolled over in Mexico in the 1980s. Caption: "Restoration of the Santa Fe Chief - Alco PA #59 June 24
Just a little update- C19 paid us an unwelcome visit recently and really put a dent in progress this spring. That said, all better now- so here’s a bit of what we are working on. It will be wildly cool to see the cab portion of the project really come together this Fall. So, check out the attached photos- new cab doors being engineered, door handles reproduced, rebuilt Pyle- National Gyralite, vintage LESLIE horns and valves, sand fill hatches, reproduced builders plates, original Santa Fe 120 MPH CP speed recorder- and more! ALL this “jewelry” will come together with the new roof to radically transform this historic Santa Fe Alco PA 59L! THIS is going to be Awesome!!!"
They did a fundraiser a few years back to buy a 251 from a wrecked MLW unit on the Missouri and Arkansas Railroad but didn't raise enough. The last 16-244 (what the unit had originally) was a standby generator that was cut-up due to a miscommunication. I think if I were them I would try the very difficult process of creating a 16-244 from two 12-244s, Morrison-Knudson in Boise had that ability (e.g. the SD40-2M's made from SD45s) but are closed now.
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