Some of you know that I love to find the rusty gem "out in the weeds." To that passion, I ask all of you what your favorite "unknown" piece of rolling stock is?

By unknown, I mean unpreserved and in need of care.

One of my favorites is the Lehigh Valley steel boxcar at Crane in Catasauqua, PA. She is very intact, and still sports the LV diamond.

And you?

Rob



trains@robertjohndavis.com

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trains@robertjohndavis.com

Two refugees from the dispersed LaSalle collection:

Central of Georgia partitioned coach 167 at Eureka Springs Arkansas, and what I believe to be even older coach 236 as part of a restaurant in south Arkansas.

Dave

irondave@bellsouth.net

My vote is for the Market Street Square collection in Wilkes-Barre, PA, includes a D&H six axle coach, a Vulcan side-rodder and some other neat stuff... Check the link (best viewed w/ Internet Explorer)

Dave Crosby

Market Street Square
bing@epix.net

If it can, its the 8-stall UP roundhouse at Hugo, Colorado, slowly being ruined by the weather and indifference.

> Some of you know that I love to find the
> rusty gem "out in the weeds." To
> that passion, I ask all of you what your
> favorite "unknown" piece of
> rolling stock is?

> By unknown, I mean unpreserved and in need
> of care.

> One of my favorites is the Lehigh Valley
> steel boxcar at Crane in Catasauqua, PA. She
> is very intact, and still sports the LV
> diamond.

> And you?

> Rob


http://www.rypn.org/
ryarger@rypn.org

My vote is for NKP54, knowingly NOT preserved!

lamontdc@adelphia.net

The collection of MILW cabooses and MILW and BN passenger cars in Prairie Du Chien, WI.

ddg14@attbi.com

How about the entire EBT

How about the existing building from Jackson and Sharp, one of the great car builders of the golden age. many still exist in Wilmington, DE.

Forgotten Delaware
tom@forgottendelaware.com

Mine would be the baggage building from the Queen and Crescent Route Central Passenger Depot in Chattanooga, Tennessee (later Southern Railway Central Passenger Depot). The Central Passenger Depot was the rebuilt Alabama Great Southern freight depot that was rebuilt by the A. G. S. and the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad in response to overcrowded conditions at Union Depot.

Central Passenger Depot itself became overcrowded and was closed in mid-December, 1909 after the opening of Southern Terminal Station one block south at 1400 Market Street.

The depot survived as railroad storage and offices until Southern Railway decided in the early 1920's to consolidate all of their offices in one central location. The main portion of the depot was pulled down and replaced with a modern (1920's) three story office building. This building was the Southern Railway Building but was generally referred to by local railroaders by it's street address: 1300 Market Street. This building served the railroad until recently, when it was sold to a developer. It has since been remodeled for combination commercial and residential usage and the little baggage building has had a good deal of attention given it. Last time I saw it, it had fresh paint, a good roof and was in overall excellent condition. Not bad considering that it is the oldest railroad building in the Chattanooga area and one of the oldest railroad buildings in the southeastern U.S.

awalker2002@comcast.net

> nm
Although it's somewhat "known" locally, the Ohio River and Western narrow gauge coach (whose number escapes me) near Adamsville, Ohio

drotarinoh@webtv.net

> Some of you know that I love to find the
> rusty gem "out in the weeds." To
> that passion, I ask all of you what your
> favorite "unknown" piece of
> rolling stock is?

Another known, but not well known one. Pennsylvania's other 3 foot gauge, semi-operable steam locomotive. The Waynesburg and Washington's (second) #4 which is located in Waynesburg, PA. (extreme South Western PA)

I saw her steam in the 1980's and I read that it's been recently restored again (cosmetically).

It's a neat little locomotive from a neat little railroad.

JimE

W&W #4
jrevans@accusort.com

In this respect, mine would have to be the little known, Little River #110.

awalker2002@comcast.net

I am afraid that we are a couple of decades too late for the good stuff. One of the sad parts of the printed version of the Loco& Railway Preservation mag is that they were talking about a
census or survey of surviving passenger cars similar to what J David did for steam engines.

I am sure that there are a lot of unknowns out there,for example the standard gauge cars built by Jackson & Sharp that the folks at the forgotten Delaware web site are working on.

Ted Miles

ted_miles@nps.gov

Mine would have to be the passenger cars at the Museum of Transportation in British Columbia. All of those cars are amazing survivors. Especially the wooden examples.

Their web site says that they are moving. do any of you Canadians know how it went?

ted_miles@nps.gov