I spoke with the owner (don't know if he still owns it) some years ago. I gathered that he had bought and moved it and was looking for some way to recoup his investment. One scenario was to place it across the former turntable area of the old Aurora roundhouse, before that was redeveloped into a sports bar. One end would have been in one side of the building, with the other end stretched across to the other side. Another had visions of some sort of gambling train, but I don't know if there would be gambling on board or just transportation to a gambling boat on the Mississippi.
You can see the result - not much. He said he had had a new set of glass made, including the curved windows, but they were not to be installed yet due to possible breakage. Not sure if the interior of this train has survived. It was gutted at one point and I'm not sure if the seats, etc., survived. Anyone know?
> Anyone know the story behind how it ended up
> in derelict condition at a locomotive
> rebuilder instead of being restored? As bad
> as I remember it looking at Mt. Pleasant, it
> still was in a lot better shape than it is
> now. Was it an aborted restoration attempt?
> The link below has more photos of how bad it
> looks now.
> Boyd
ryarger@rypn.org
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