Now here is an engine you dont see everyday!
One exists in Amsterdam, NY.
probably the last of her class?
apparently there were only 7 built.
would be easy to move for preservation!
(only because she is so small!)

here are some links:

http://www.railroad.net/forums/messages ... icID=16469

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/diesel117.html

this is the actual unit in Amsterdam:
http://yardlimit.railfan.net/emd/model40/ccs.jpg




sscotsman@yahoo.com

> Now here is an engine you dont see everyday!
> One exists in Amsterdam, NY.
> probably the last of her class?
> apparently there were only 7 built.
> would be easy to move for preservation!
> (only because she is so small!)

> here are some links:

>
> http://www.railroad.net/forums/messages ... icID=16469

>
> http://www.northeast.railfan.net/diesel117.html

> this is the actual unit in Amsterdam:
>
> http://yardlimit.railfan.net/emd/model40/ccs.jpg

Boy, I wish OUR Model 40 looked like that! There were actually a total of 11 built. Ours is s/n 1835 built in April of 1942. There are a few others still in existance including one that is in service at Travel Town in California.

Les Beckman (Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum/North Judson, Indiana)


midlandblb@cs.com

Direct link to the existing one.

http://yardlimit.railfan.net/emd/model40/ccs.jpg
ryarger@rypn.org

> Boy, I wish OUR Model 40 looked like that!
> There were actually a total of 11 built.
> Ours is s/n 1835 built in April of 1942.
> There are a few others still in existance
> including one that is in service at Travel
> Town in California.

Among the others still in existence, according to my notes, are one at the Walkersville Southern in Maryland (last I saw it, it was still under restoration to operation), which I *believe* is leased from the Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum, and one that was stuffed and mounted at the Harley-Davidson plant in York, Pa. about 1990 after its use as a plant switcher for years (I think it worked at another plant in York before HD got it, and I remember rumors that the WSRR gang was looking into leasing that 40 as well from its current owners, a local historical society).

Walkersville Southern 101
LNER4472-NOSPAM-@bcpl.net

Very interesting builders photo. I'm assuming at least that is what that was. Interesting that it is shot from the rear of the locomotive.

How many of the other's remaining have the strap steel stirrups for steps? Ours at Travel Town has steps cut into the frame at all 4 corners and deeper side steel.

It sure would be nice to have ours look all shiny like that. Ours is still in the red they painted it when it was delivered to TT and it needs a proper repainting (like so much of our stuff). Some have suggested that it be returned to Navy Gray that it wore most of its career. Personally I kind of like that idea.

Greg
> Now here is an engine you dont see everyday!
> One exists in Amsterdam, NY.
> probably the last of her class?
> apparently there were only 7 built.
> would be easy to move for preservation!
> (only because she is so small!)

> here are some links:

>
> http://www.railroad.net/forums/messages ... icID=16469

>
> http://www.northeast.railfan.net/diesel117.html

> this is the actual unit in Amsterdam:
>
> http://yardlimit.railfan.net/emd/model40/ccs.jpg


greg@cscvrr.org

How many empties could one of these theoretically pull on level and tangent track?

Gerald W. Kopiasz

> Now here is an engine you dont see everyday!
> One exists in Amsterdam, NY.
> probably the last of her class?
> apparently there were only 7 built.
> would be easy to move for preservation!
> (only because she is so small!)

> here are some links:

>
> http://www.railroad.net/forums/messages ... icID=16469

>
> http://www.northeast.railfan.net/diesel117.html

> this is the actual unit in Amsterdam:
>
> http://yardlimit.railfan.net/emd/model40/ccs.jpg


hrrhs@aol.com

There is also one in Stellarton Nova Scotia Canada, which ironically enough, is the one in the first pic of this thread.. It is in storage, and was the original EMC demonstrator for the Model 40. These units weighed in (believe it or not) at 44tons....The one in Nova Scotia worked in my area of the Niagara Region, before being sold to a dealer, then to the Four Star Collieries #10 in Glace Bay Nova Scotia, then finally to Cape Breton Devco (Cape Breton DEVelopement COrporation)....#20 was retired by DEVCO in 1991, and sat outside the Museum of Industry for about 10 yrs, before being moved into the dark dingy warehouse with 2 steam engines, and 2 more small diesels....The unit is painted yellow and green, and has not been fired up in some time. Under it's current paint are the markings from when it worked in St. Catharines Ont (Near Niagara Falls). It would be nice to one day bring this unit back home for display and operation, instead of having it spend the rest of it's life out of sight (meaning NO ONE is allowed in there to see it, luckily, the curator was from Glace Bay, and so is my wife's family) stuck in a dark warehouse. I have taken the liberty of adding this list of it's history.

#20 EMC Serial:1134 Blt:8/1940 Model 40
ex-Devco Railway #20 (1991)
exx-Four Star Collieries #10 (1969)
exxx-A.A. Merilees #10 (dealer)
exxxx-McKinnon Industries(St. Catharines)#10 1963
exxxxx-EMC #10 1951
nee-EMC Demonstrator #1134

Ken Jones
Niagara Falls Railway Museum
digitekfx@kwic.com

Niagara Falls Railway Museum
digitekfx@kwic.com

Ken;

St. Catharines? Where abouts? I spent the first half of my life in St. Catharines, and took all the street running, and old railbeds almost for granted.

Wow - you never know what you might find when you read rypn...

John Stewart
Ottawa.

> ...The unit is painted yellow
> and green, and has not been fired up in some
> time. Under it's current paint are the
> markings from when it worked in St.
> Catharines Ont ...

Ottawa CMST Shay
freewrl-1@rogers.com