One's that accidentally made it into preservation

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:11 am

tomgears wrote:

PRR Diesel Electric Railcar #4662 at Wilmington and Western was purchased by the National Capital Trolley Museum to be used as a power plant for overhead trolley wires. For some reason they ended up not using her and she ended up out in the woods near Lake Roland, MD.

Not quite correct. Robert E. Lee Park along Lake Roland, a park technically in the county but owned by the City and paralleled by a portion of the PRR's Green Spring Branch at the time, was the original (1962) site for the traction museum that later splintered (1965-66) into the NCTM and the Baltimore Streetcar Museum; the 4662 was the power plant for that abortive project. One of the key folks involved with the eventual preservation of 4662 is still active in both the W&W and BSM, last I knew.

Mark Z. Yerkes · **Joined:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:47 pm **Posts:** 486

DL&W 2-6-0 #565 could be seen as an accidental preservation. She went from the Lackawanna to the D&MM to the BR&W, to various private owners, before finally ending up at Steamtown.

Gary Gray · **Posted:** Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:39 am

rjenkins wrote:

N&W 917, 1118, 1134, and 1151 and Chesapeake Western 662 and 663 come to mind.

Speaking of CW 662, some photos from last weekend. She is scheduled to go on display at VMT on July 7th.

http://www.facebook.com/roanokenrhs?ref ... 749&type=1

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 21, 2012 1:28 am

Gary, that unit looks great. It's too bad it and its sister have water damage, and are not currently candidates for restoration to operation. As it is, this one looks like it could be ready to go!

Frank Hicks · **Posted:** Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:21 am

dinwitty wrote:

I have heard rumors of a sister [CLS&SB] car still existing somewhere, I've tried to track down some details but ran into dead ends.

Here you go: CLS&SB 73

JimBoylan · **Posted:** Thu Jun 21, 2012 1:12 pm

This one (C-145) has been saved 3 times, it escaped museum preservation twice!

http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc-quer ... agelen=200

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 21, 2012 3:51 pm

What must be a classic "accidental preservation" story would be that of the Marmora, the last surviving Eddy Clock 4-4-0, now on display in St. Louis. This engine was retired sometime in the 19th century, but its boiler was used for heating passenger cars at a station. It survived in that service long enough to become part of the Perdue collection, and from there went to St. Louis.

From an E-Bay auction:

http://www.historybound.com/catalog/images/70327.jpg

More recently, let's also recall the two surviving Challengers, including UP 3985, were used for snow melting for some years by UP. While in that service, they got typical maintenance-of-way numbers with 5 or 6 digits; during that time, as far as the equipment rosters were concerned, they were no longer even "locomotives!"

Wowak · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 8:51 pm

Reading 2100 and 2101 both went to scrap before they were given a 2nd chance by Mr. Rowland. Well really he only bought 2100 for parts but apparently he didn't need anything that couldn't be replaced by cubic dollars.