"Suitable or not, it is not worth nit-picking the heritage of the locomotive. They are fortunate to have something that looks that good! Santa Fe rebuilt a reliable machine and KRM is fortunate for that."
> To incinuate that the KRM or its membership
> doesn't care about having a Santa Fe
> locomotive fails to look at the issue
> objectively. While I wish we had an L&N,
> Southern, N&W, C&O, or B&O
> diesel, when the museum was looking for a
> new locomotive back in the late 1980s, the
> 2546 was in Indiana and available cheap.
> Sometimes, it comes down to economics, and
> yes, we do care about getting a
> Kentucky-heritage locomotive. However, given
> what we have, we decided to go ahead and
> repaint it in a Santa Fe paint scheme in
> order to preserve it.
> We do have other Kentucky-related
> locomotives. We have a Monon (which ran into
> Louisville) BL-2, and a Fairbanks Morris
> H-12-44 from Fr. Knox.
Nit-pick? Ha! I bet if it was as Santa Fe steamer KRM would jump over the moon to trade it for the 152. Museums are, or should be, all about heritage. As for reliablity, if that's what's important then stuff and mount the 152 as the CF7 is your baby.
I take it then if KRM would like to find something more local they would be interested in a swap? I'll bet Ed Bowers can find you something.
As for the "other diesels" lets not forget the 770. Alas the last time I saw it it was more proof that KRM doesn't care about diesels. Sad, very sad.
GM
gmckee@uky.edu
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