Oyster Bay RR Museum preserves ex-NH FA cab

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:40 pm

Salvaged from a wrecked New Haven FA1, this cab was painted up to represent the new LIRR scheme, during the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. Long Island was in the process of trading its own C-Liner cabs to ALCO for C-420's, so a donor cab was sought. BTW, the paint scheme represented here was never applied to the LI FM cabs.

Post Fair, the cab went to a childrens daycare, where the usual happened. It was offered to the Oyster Bay group before it was to be scrapped, and they snapped it up and restored it for display.

Note in the picture, the divers from G5s #35 and a portion of their new P54 coach.

Credit the photo to Albert Castelli.

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

Richard Glueck wrote:

Salvaged from a wrecked New Haven FA1, this cab was painted up to represent the new LIRR scheme, during the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. Long Island was in the process of trading its own C-Liner cabs to ALCO for C-420's, so a donor cab was sought. BTW, the paint scheme represented here was never applied to the LI FM cabs.

Post Fair, the cab went to a childrens daycare, where the usual happened. It was offered to the Oyster Bay group before it was to be scrapped, and they snapped it up and restored it for display.

Note in the picture, the divers from G5s #35 and a portion of their new P54 coach.

Credit the photo to Albert Castelli.

I have a friend of mine who, every time he saw a steam locomotive tender, would say "they saved the wrong end!" In this case, they at least saved "the right end!".

Les

Ted Miles · **Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:52 am

Folks,

I was back the in June and their yard looks pretty much like you see it in the picture.

It is only a short distance from the Oyster Bay Station building which show the recent work on the roof et cetra. It is nice to see the building without all the ads plastered all ofer it.

It would be nice to see that locomotive back in one piece. It has been apart for such a long time!

Ted Miles

NH0401 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:38 pm

The cab is what remains of NH 0402, which had been traded on a NH C425 order.

I was told that the cab section was furnished in consideration of the then-current order for C420's. At the Fair, it wore the later style aluminum Alco Products builders'
plate.

DPK

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:11 pm

Not the only loco cabs preserved thus, by a long shot:

Scroll down to the bottom of this pageand you'll find not one, but TWO such cabs owned by a loco preservation society in the UK. Yes, both were privately preserved in backyards at first. And I have no confirmation that the donations came about as a result of "either that thing goes or I do!" ultimatums..........

santafeboy · **Joined:** Tue May 26, 2009 12:42 am **Posts:** 113

In the early 70s MK in Boise Idaho used the cab from an Alco RS-2 as a guard shack there is a photo of it one of the early X2200 Souths I also recall a model railroad store having the cab of a CN F-7A in the store