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 Post subject: Re: Locomotives preserved in large numbers?
PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:05 pm 

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mldeets wrote:
Don't forget the 7 Soo Line Pacifics of the H class...........mld


Three H-3's, 730, 735, and 736
Two H-23's, 2718 and 2719
One H-22, 2714, and
One H-21, 2713

But all of these classes have the same dimensions and are nearly identical.

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 Post subject: Re: Locomotives preserved in large numbers?
PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:15 pm 

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Of the seven Porter 0-4-0Ts built for J&L Steel, four still survive and enough parts of a fifth survives to rebuild it if we wanted to. Only 61 and 63 are completely gone.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:18 pm 

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I had always heard it was 13 "preserved" (at least not scrapped) GG1s.


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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 9:51 pm 

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PRR8063 wrote:
Very loose criteria for this. Has to be at least 3+ preserved to qualify and has to be a specific class for a specific RR

Alco C430: 5 out of the 16 built still exist. The GB&W unit is preserved in Green Bay while the Western New York and Pennsylvania has 4 of the NY Central's 10 units.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 10:10 pm 

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Per Wiki, looks like (25) South African Railways class 25NC’s (actually includes the (1) class 26).

Won’t get into how many were condensers, likely many were since originally 90 out of the 140 25’s were originally condensers.

This quantity of (25) 25’s doesn’t include the only condenser left the #3511. Not sure if a 2nd condenser has survived and likely the 3rd was scrapped.

All Cape gauge of course……3’6”

Of course this number could be fluid if the rampant scrapping has not stopped since to the Wiki totals have been posted.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 10:16 pm 

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SEPTA still has their AEM-7's. In the Fall, they use them on Fall Foliage trains - not for Leaf Peepers but to pull work trains that wash the slippery stuff off the rails.

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 Post subject: Re: Locomotives preserved in large numbers?
PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 10:36 pm 

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G'day from Australia. Great topic!

Some notable locos with large numbers preserved in Australia. These are preserved in varying condition.

Ex Victorian Railways
K class 2-8-0 53 built, 21 preserved
J class 2-8-0 60 built, 11 preserved
R class 4-6-4 70 built, 7 preserved
D3 class 4-6-0 94 built, 8 preserved including the only surviving Baldwin built example at th ARHS museum in North Williamstown

Ex Queensland Railways
C17 Class 4-8-0 227 built, 25 preserved

Ex South Australian Railways
Rx class 4-6-0 10 preserved

Ex Western Australian Government Railways
W class 4-8-2 60 built, 15 preserved plus an additional 3 from 4 virtually identical from the Silverton Tramway.

Ex Commonwealth Railways
NSU class A1A-A1A mainline diesel 14 built, 14 preserved- this must be a record....does anyone know of a class of loco larger than this with 100% of the class in some form of preservation?

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Over 100 Class 52 steam locomotives preserved in Germany!

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Five of the CB&Q's fourteen 4-6-4s. 3001, 3003, 3006, 3007 and 4000.


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If electric multiple units qualify as "locomotives", in various conditions, there are approximately 18 surviving PRR/LIRR MP54s, 26 Reading EMUs, and approximately 59 Lackawanna motored MUs (plus 97 Lackawanna trailers!)


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 8:52 pm 

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After re-reading the OP's criteria - C&NW class R-1 has 3 examples extant:
#175, #440 & #1385..........mld


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:14 pm 

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Tyler H. wrote:
If electric multiple units qualify as "locomotives", in various conditions, there are approximately 18 surviving PRR/LIRR MP54s, 26 Reading EMUs, and approximately 59 Lackawanna motored MUs (plus 97 Lackawanna trailers!)

Wow! Do you have a list of all of the museums they are in?

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 10:17 pm 

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I count two Reading Company MU cars preserved as MU cars:
800 at RR Museum of PA, East Strasburg PA
863 at Reading RR Museum, Hamburg PA

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 Post subject: Re: Locomotives preserved in large numbers?
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In my entry earlier in this thread concerning the surviving Baldwin "Sports Model" 2-10-0's, I also mentioned "Russian" Decapods. I'm a bit surprised no one has picked up on that reference. Of the 857 2-10-0's sent during the First World War to Czarist Russia, about 200 additonal engines were awaiting shipment or under construction when the Russian Revolution occurred. These engines were regauged from 5 foot gauge to 4' 8-1/2" (getting wider driver tires) and sold to a number of railroads in the U.S. Of those that stayed here, six of them are still in existence. Five of those were originally part of the 21 "Russian" engines on the roster of the St. Louis-San Francisco (Frisco) that avoided the scrapper by being sold to the Eagle-Picher Company in Oklahoma in 1951. The survivors are SLSF 1615, 1621, 1625, 1630 (currently operable at IRM in Union, IL) and 1632. The other survivor is former Seaboard engine #544 that was sold to the Gainesville Midland where it was in service as their number 206.

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One of my favorite RR pictures of all time was taken by Steve Singer, an RyPN friend whom unexpectedly passed away over seven years ago. It shows a shiny, decorated, Russian decapod working sometime in the 21st century, just inside North Korea, although he was standing in China when he took the picture. I can't make out the number, but the cylinder jackets have emblems that look an awful lot like the old style Texaco star in a white circle. Such an image raises many questions, for which I have no answers...

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