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 Post subject: RINGLING BROS. former generator car FOR SALE
PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 10:07 pm 

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Location: Somewhere east of Prescott, AZ along the old Santa Fe "Prescott & Eastern"
Reposted from Trainorders.com:

RINGLING BROS. former generator car FOR SALE:

RBBX 60011 Generator Car (SIX-AXLES, BUILT by ACF in 1961 as UP 6319 [Baggage/Messenger] ), a Circus Train [HEP]-car with TWO, 480V Gensets, IS FOR SALE by Feld Entertainment, Inc., parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

NOTE that RBBB usually KEEPS trucks/wheelsets, so special arrangements may be necessary to move the car out of Palmetto, Fla. (via CSXT) by any party interested in buying the car.

PHOTO OF CAR:
http://www.vistadome.com/trains/circus/circus008.html

FOR SERIOUS INQUIRIES, here's the contact info:
Feld Entertainment Combined Operations Center
(941) 722-1990
1313 Seventeenth Street East
Palmetto, FL 34221


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 Post subject: Re: RINGLING BROS. former generator car FOR SALE
PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 3:48 pm 

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Too late! I called this morning and the generators have been sold and the car is already being cut up. They are reusing the trucks on another car. I wish I had heard about this two weeks ago.


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 Post subject: Re: RINGLING BROS. former generator car FOR SALE
PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:02 am 

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I believe this car had been for sale for at least a year with no takers.


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 Post subject: Re: RINGLING BROS. former generator car FOR SALE
PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 2:27 pm 

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Topfuel wrote:
I believe this car had been for sale for at least a year with no takers.

Where was it listed? Over and over we hear of stuff getting cut up that was 'for sale' for extended periods, but it was never known it was for sale.

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 Post subject: Re: RINGLING BROS. former generator car FOR SALE
PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 9:49 am 

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One place I saw it advertised was on a flyer on a vendor table at the Railroad Passenger Car Alliance conference in Indianapolis in 2012. It was listed as "Make Offer", but because of the value of the 2 gensets, the 6 wheel OSH trucks, the AP EE wheelsets, etc, they wanted to get reasonable market value for the car, so you weren't going to steal it.

I could swear I also saw it on either Railswap or one of the RR car broker websites as well.


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