I have no affiliation with CSR, but I did come across their first public update in over a year this morning. In the shadow of some recent skepticism to them, perhaps this will shed some light on their most recent activities. Take from their update what you will.

Read here:

https://csrail.org/newsroom/2022/3/23/c ... tus-update

-Sam A.

Speak of the devil. Someone had mentioned this group within the last week about their inactivity. Perfect timing!

Sounds like they lost their research partner and are now trying to figure out a way forward. They were also having problems with scaling up the process of making the torrified biomass.

Mostly good news though. Was looking forward to hearing about 3463.

If it were to operate it would be a unique piece no question. No American built 4-6-4 has operated in preservation to my knowledge.

Even just a cosmetic job and a long term care solution is leagues better than what the loco had gone through in the past few decades