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 Post subject: Historic NYC Electrics to finally move
PostPosted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 6:14 pm 

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 Post subject: Re: Historic NYC Electrics to finally move
PostPosted: Fri Dec 31, 2021 1:12 am 

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Original NYC S-1 Motor 100 and the Last T-3a motor 278, if as goes planned, are to be moved from Beacon Island where they have sat for years to the Danbury Railway Museum within a few months. The site they are sitting on is to become a manufacturing facility for wind turbines. Originally acquired by Mohawk and Hudson Chapter of the National Historic Railway Society, they had several homes. Earlier the Berkshire Scenic Railway assumed ownership in efforts to save them from their current predicament. There is also an ex NYC RS-3 and a GE U-25B on the property. Five passenger cars were mentioned. Several boxcars may be located with the equipment as well.


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 31, 2021 7:20 am 

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Well, at least it sounds like there is some sort of future for these units. For years, the common belief has been that they were most certainly going to be scrapped where they sat and that was all there was to it.

Is it me or does it seem like all the lost causes or problem children that have been the source of much wringing of hands over the years have been handled recently? East Broad Top, the electrics at Albany, the Fred Kepner collection, FEC #148, PRR #1361, B&LE #643, RDG #1187


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Also of note at that same location are 2 ex-D&RGW, ex-D&H lightweight Pullman-Standard 1950 diners with very unusual center kitchens. These ran on the Prospector while in Rio Grande service.


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 Post subject: Re: Historic NYC Electrics to finally move
PostPosted: Fri Dec 31, 2021 10:11 pm 

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It’s not just you NJDixon. I’ve been noticing that too

Any thread about those “problem children” from even 3 years ago is probably entirely out of date now


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 Post subject: Re: Historic NYC Electrics to finally move
PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 2:14 am 

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Topfuel wrote:
Also of note at that same location are 2 ex-D&RGW, ex-D&H lightweight Pullman-Standard 1950 diners with very unusual center kitchens. These ran on the Prospector while in Rio Grande service.


It has been alleged elsewhere online that these two diners are privately owned by a completely different entity, and that it is possible that progress is being made concurrent to the "rescue" of the NYC electrics that could give the diners a "chance to escape."


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I dug out my Railfans Guide to the Empire State published in 1997, here is the complete list of locomotives at that time.


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