Next Most Worthy of Preservation

Jdelhaye · **Posted:** Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:24 am

rea_reefwagon wrote:

I hope IRM will be okay with that thing.

Status updates, from various channels of the IRM "grapevine"

"electrical issues"(12:10 AM Saturday)
"It loads but no test run yet."(9:52 PM Saturday)
"It kinda loads...everyone is scared to go above run 3"(12:37 AM Sunday)

I think IRM will do just fine with it.

Jeff

o484 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:23 am

From what I can tell, if anyone wants to preserve one of the high-horsepower locomotives from the 1990s (SD80MAC, SD90MAC, AC6000CW etc.) the next five or so years will be the time to grab one.

robertmacdowell · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:45 am

robertmacdowell wrote:

artschwartz wrote:

The other group are the original San Diego DUWAG light rail cars, the first of many to go into service in the U.S. These are being sold to a city in Argentina for continued use.

I hope the ... Southland people are on the ball on those. The Sandy Eggo cars are the bailiwick of OERM, they're the one electric museum that'd have an interest.

As it turns out, one of them has shown up at the Western Railway Museum in the "northland".

artschwartz · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:36 pm

And a San Diego car in, of all places, Orbisonia, PA at the Rockhill museum.

Alan Walker · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2014 5:23 pm

TVRM has seven ex-United States Army Transportation Corps locomotives:

GP7-Ls: 1824, 1829, 1832
RSD-1s: 8014, 8021, 8669, 8677

They also have ex-NC&St.L 710 which is (I believe) another GP-7L. The GP-7L differed from the standard GP-7 in that it had switcher trucks instead of the road trucks. Only the Army and the NC ordered the GP-7L series.

Another noteworthy locomotive there is ex-Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia GP-38 No. 80, the "John A. Chambliss" (ex-Norfolk Southern 2879). It was one of the two named locomotives on the TA&G and carried the name under the NS banner for a number of years.

RCD · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2014 8:14 pm

F40PH but museums really doped the ball when they became surplus. I don't think any locomotive in American history has ever set the standard that F40's have E and F units as a whole yes but they span many different models. More FL9s are in preservation than F40's yet while the FL9s moved New Englanders into New York the F40PH moved nations.