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Resurrection!
Posted by AggroJones on Monday, March 1, 2004 12:56 AM
What single dummified locomotive would you like to see ressurected and used to run special excursions? Exisiting machines that haven't been scrapped. Museum pieces and such. Brung back, rebuilt to operating condition, like they did SF 3751, UP 3985 and the SP P-8.

(This exclused the BigBoy because it has no place to run [;)] )

I voted for our Espee # 4294 4-8-8-2. The last Cabforward located in the California State RR Museum.

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Posted by Fergmiester on Monday, March 1, 2004 6:03 AM
I would like to see one of Canadian Nationals Northerns run again.

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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Monday, March 1, 2004 6:19 AM
[^][;)][:)]The only EMD E7 left in existence!

It's in a museum in Pennsylvania and is in the maroon Pennsylvania Railroad scheme.

These were the E units that set the standard for fast passenger service. A tragedy that all but one are gone!

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 1, 2004 1:55 PM
I'd like to see:
Another UP FEF
A UP 4-12-2
A Southern 4-8-2
An ATSF 2-10-2
That one other UP Challenger( can't remember it's number, but it's in a park and is painted two tone gray with smoke deflectors)
A GG1
and the SP 4-8-8-2
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Posted by AggroJones on Monday, March 1, 2004 4:54 PM
[#wstupid] I said one! One single engine. One! [;)][;)][:p]

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Posted by AggroJones on Thursday, March 4, 2004 10:04 PM
Is the UP 3985 the only large articulated currently in excursion service? I think so.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, March 4, 2004 10:27 PM
Lets pull C&O 1604, one of the last 2 surviving Allegheny's out of the Museum in Baltimore![:D]
See if we can't get coupled tender to tender with a restored big boy, and stop this arguement altogether!!!![;)]
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Posted by Jetrock on Friday, March 5, 2004 2:52 AM
Well, if we're including cars as well as locomotives, my vote would be for the Northern Electric/Sacramento Northern parlor car BIDWELL. It's the car at the top of the page here:

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ggg9y/

The body is sitting under a tarp at the Western Railway Museum, all it needs is a couple hundred thousand dollars and a few months' volunteer work from skilled artisans to bring it back to its former glory...

But if we're talking strictly engines, I suppose SN 602, the only remaining SN box motor, also sitting unrestored at the WRM, would suffice...
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Posted by CP5415 on Friday, March 5, 2004 5:29 AM
I know it'll never happen, [sigh] but CPR's K1a 4-8-4. Either one of them would be cool since they're both still around.
I'll just have to be happy with H1b 2816 for now. [swg]

Gordon

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:00 PM
I would like to see two CLC DT-2 locomotives restored and given a nice home. Right now, they are sitting in two sawmills slowly rusting away... [sigh]

I would love to have them in my yard, but do you know how expencive it is to haul 44 tons of steel by truck? [;)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:31 PM
I think Espee's cab forward would be my choice!
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Posted by lupo on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:50 PM
A UP BIG BLOW !
because you did not allow my all time favorite !
A UP BIG BOY !
L [censored] O
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Posted by orsonroy on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:53 PM
While I'm a diehard steam fan, most of my favorite steamers have either been restored in the past or are currently running. So I vote for the Pioneer Zephyr!

I would have said a PA-1, but Doyle McCormick's already working on that one!

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:53 PM
well i can think of 3 CP rail engines that are running:
2-8-2 mikado was rebuild and...... not sure but it came by hear a year or 2 ago
royal hudson: does exursions in BC on formor bc rail track
and the 2-6-0? that runs in heritage park (a old themed park hear in calgary)
also at heritage park they have a 4-10-2(or 4) but it is parked at the entrance with a s-2?
south of here the is a 44 tonner
theres a 2-8-2 mikado in the revelstoke rail museum too, not sure but the use to have the engineer in it that would tell you about it, but he wasn't there the last time i was there.

as for what i want resurected: i'm not sure[swg]
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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:04 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by deschane

I think Espee's cab forward would be my choice!


[#ditto][#wstupid] I would love to see this happen[:D][:D]
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Posted by Paul W. Beverung on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 8:06 PM
No doubt about it, a DM&IR Yellowstone. Preferably coming out of Biwabik with 140 cars of ore.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:55 PM
The second # 4 mogul sitting at the green county historical society in Waynesburg P.A. It's the last surviver of the Waynesburg & Washington Narrow gauge (3ft) Railroad

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