Ohio Central high bidder on Fairbanks Morse Locomo

Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Fri Jan 16, 2004 7:36 pm

Whatever happened to the Red River Valley RR Historical Society of Shreveport, LA? I think they acquired some equipment in the 1980s, including the ex-Santa Fe 2-6-2 1140 from Pineland, TX. They also began dismantling the ex- D&R 2-6-0 in the local park. Are they still a functioning entity, or not?

http://www.steamlocomotive.info/vlocomotive.cfm?Display=558
ryarger@rypn.org

Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Fri Jan 16, 2004 7:41 pm

Kiowa, KS Santa Fe depot has been refused by the city and BNSF plans to tear it down. See link below.

http://users.aol.com/sfrr/kansas/kansas.htm
ryarger@rypn.org

Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Fri Jan 16, 2004 7:43 pm

Sorry, didn't notice that news was written in 1998. Probably gone now.

> Kiowa, KS Santa Fe depot has been refused by
> the city and BNSF plans to tear it down. See
> link below.

http://users.aol.com/sfrr/kansas/kansas.htm
ryarger@rypn.org

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Fri Jan 16, 2004 9:05 pm

> Does this mean, then, that a GG1 could still
> run below NYC or to Harrisburg? I'm told at
> least one (4935?) at Strasburg is still
> pretty much intact. Is that true?

The *ALLEGEDLY* intact ones are 4800 (which, if the sources I heard years ago were accurate, still has cracks that make that dream impossible) and PRR 4917/Amtrak 4934, which at last report was up in Cooperstown, NY owned by the Leatherstocking NRHS along with Steamtown refugee GG1 Amtrak 4932.

Never say never, but I see the actual odds of getting a GG1 running again as extraordinarily long--unless someone's willing to strip one to the frame and rehab it completely, including possibly repairing frame cracks. I think the wheels and quill drives may be a problem as well.

LNER4472-NOSPAM-@bcpl.net

Ted Miles · **Posted:** Sun Jan 18, 2004 11:36 pm

Kurt,

That was a great talk I wish I had been there to hear it!

Does your library at RR MUseum of PA have the Model Railroad Craftsman for 1968?

ted_miles@nps.gov

George Jenista · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:21 am

> Whatever happened to the Red River Valley RR
> Historical Society of Shreveport, LA?
> Are they still a functioning
> entity, or not?

I made inquiry a couple months back on a different discussion list, and was told they're still around. At the time, their focus apparently was on saving the Texas & Pacific depot, which effort seems also in limbo. Additionally, they had a pair of [ex-DL&W] commute coaches, and RPO, and a GE 65T diesel stored beneath the west side of the I-20 bridge over the Arkansas River, just south of the Illinois Central depot. That equipment may have been sold and removed..

hi_plain@yahoo.com

J. Johnson · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:05 pm

The Ohio Central Railroad was high bidder on both Fairbanks Morse diesel locomotives on ebay.

This is NOT an April Fool's Joke.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... egory=4124

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... egory=4124

jmjohnson@ohiocentral.com