Four organizations partner to restore three GE 44-tonners.

NJDixon · **Joined:** Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:36 pm **Posts:** 364

Seen on Railfan & Railroad Magazine's website:

Delaware & Ulster Railroad will be mechanically parting out their GE 44-tonner, Western Maryland #76, to revive New Haven #0814, Middletown & New Jersey #2 and Hoboken Manufacturers Railroad #700, owned by Danbury Railroad Museum, Operation Toy Train and Tri-State Railway Historical Society, respectively. Parts will also be set aside as spares for Danbury's other 44-tonner. After the parts are harvested from WM #76, it will then be cosmetically restored as an NYO&W 44-tonner and put on display at display at the Port Jervis Transportation History Center.

More info at https://44tonner.org/

Shane M · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2023 2:57 pm

Awesome, glad to see all of them, even the donor, will be used and not left on the deadline.

JimBoylan · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2023 8:45 pm

What happened to the other Hoboken Manufacturers' - Hoboken Shore 44 ton Diesel 701, later owned by Sam Freeman as Adirondak RR 107 and then stored on the New Hope & Ivyland RR in New Hope, Pennsylvania?

NH8218 · **Joined:** Wed Jul 17, 2019 8:19 pm **Posts:** 35

The 701 was unfortunately cut up for scrap sometime during the 1990’s after sitting unused around the New Hope yard for several years prior.

Thomas Cornillie · **Joined:** Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:19 pm **Posts:** 272

Might there be an opportunity to expand the trade?

The Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Georgia has NYO&W 104, restored to its as-delivered maroon paint scheme with silver stripes in 2001. This website has before and after photos of the restoration: http://www.nyow.org/nyow104.html

Over the years the paint has faded to a chalky purple, as seen here: http://www.rgusrail.com/album/gaserm/ow_104_07.jpg via this excellent website: http://www.rgusrail.com/gaserm.html

Is the someone or some organization in Maryland that might want to have a WM 44-ton locomotive that could offer something of value to the Southeastern Railway Museum that would allow NYO&W 104 to return home?