Two More F7s Get Recycled

daylight4449 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:18 am

Mount Royal wrote:

daylight4449 wrote:

Man, why couldn't RMNE at least keep one of those old girls. Those two were the first thing I saw when I arrived at the Naugatuck back in August. TO bad I may never see them again. :(

As Brent said, these units have little significance to our collection. This has been discussed at length in another forum of which you are a member. RMNE has plenty of FL-9s that should satisfy your hunger for F-units.

My home town is just 45 minutes from Galveston. I visit about four times a year and I'd be happy to update you when I am in Galveston again.

Thanks. My hats off to RMNE for taking care of them and helping get them to a new home, regardless if I would have liked to see them stay, which is irrelevant.

filmteknik · **Posted:** Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:01 am

But are they sending more off to eventual slaughter?

We may not be there yet with, say, old Geeps, but at this point F's and E's (or any other carbodies from other builders) should be, like steam, never scrapped anymore unless damage is so severe that even static display is impossible. Just because it doesn't run or can't be repaired for a figure someone wants to pay and scrap is bringing high figures is no excuse, IMHO. Scrap only if no one else was willing to take it including for free. If there was a canon of ethics for museums and preservation railways something like that should be on it. My two point five cents.

Steve

PCook · **Joined:** Sat Jul 02, 2005 7:16 am **Posts:** 2127

With the scrap value of an old locomotive running at $50K and a very weak economy, few museums are in a position to compete with the scrap value of the equipment, unless of course they are lucky enough to have supporters who want to see it preserved and are able to come up with lots on money real quickly.

PC

wesp · **Posted:** Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:41 am

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We may not be there yet with, say, old Geeps, but at this point F's and E's (or any other carbodies from other builders) should be, like steam, never scrapped anymore unless damage is so severe that even static display is impossible.

Just how many E and F units (and PCCs and CTA 4000s, and....) must be preserved, and to what purpose? This question goes back to several earlier threads on mission and collections policy.

Wesley

filmteknik · **Posted:** Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:12 pm

I am tempted to say all of them. Not to be sarcastic but because I know that that won't happen and the numbers will continue to diminish. Here we have some units that are being scrapped only because it was cheaper to bring in some others. I don't know how many F's and E's we "need." Enough to tell their story I suppose.

Anyone know the current status of IRM's E9AM carbody shell that WSOR used as a donor for the E9B unit?

Steve

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:33 pm

UPDATE: Snipped from an article on the F's posted at Trains.com today:

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[Museum board member Dr. Don] Harper said the museum has an agreement with BNSF to remove its rolling stock from Galveston Island in the event of a future hurricane.

There are no solid plans for the units to operate, but they would be available for special excursions, or could operate over the museum’s quarter-mile track.