Lots of railfans are eager to pull them out of the woods, but they are so isolated, you can't imagine how difficult the process would be. The two engines are decaying, and that process has been slowed by a group of dedicated individuals. What is amazing is that ice could get so think that a ten-wheeler and a consolidation could be dragged across it. We haven't had ice that thick up here since I can remember! People who don't subscribe to global warming should see the two locos, where they are today. The other question is if they were hauled by tractors or Belgian horses in team? The consolidation doesn't look like NYC fleet power either. Maybe build a permanent structure over them at some point, but pull that other 2-8-0 out of the park first. And maybe one of those Mohawks.

Oh incidently, taking the two steamers out of the woods will be easy compared to suffering the Maine mosquitoes!


glueck@maine.edu

Dave,

If you want to see how they moved them, checkout the link I have included further down the thread.

There is a great picture of a Gas Lombard hauling the frame and running gear of No. 2.

As for the remote location.

To re-build the roadbed we had to haul in 150 yards of stone ballast in 5 gallon plastic pails loaded onto sleds hauled behind snowmobiles. It took over 4500 buckets.

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> Ed,

> Yours is just the kind of responce that I
> was hoping to get to my post.

> And just as I expected, 2976 is the typical
> Park locomotive in need of paint and missing
> a lot of parts.

> another candidate that needs to be moved to
> a proper museum.

> Regarding the engines out at Eagle Lake in
> Maine, they are something for archaeologists
> not preservations.

> Ted Miles

The 2976 is a engine i've been interested in awhile now being a fan of NYC steam. I do have
the privilege of working on O-6-O 6721 here in
Utica and we (U&MVnrhs)are working to keep
mother nature in check and are slowly working
to restore her cosmeticly.This engine has been
neglected way too long and might never be a
candidate for operational restoration. As to the
2976 I believe this engine was built as an oil
burner and might have been used on the Adirondack
Division as NY State had/has a ban on coal buning
loco's in the Park.I've been told the current
operational agreement between the ADIR and the
State calls for internal combustion only.RATS.
I've never been able to find much on the net about 2976 and this interest here is I think
great.

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