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What happened to the E-unit used in this movie
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As late as 1982, i tried to persuade "one of the most respected railroad museums in the country" to grab one of the ROCK ISLAND E7s, then stored at Silvis Illinois. The response was something like: "We don't see a need to save an example of EACH AND EVERY model produced" or something like that. <br />Sometime later, that same museum approached the powers that be in Silvis, but the E7s were, by that time, long gone. <br />If you were referring to a GM&O engine as that in the movie, several GM&O units did make it into Amtrak service in the 1970s, but none were purchased by Amtrak. <br />All E-7s except the PRR 4201 are scrapped, and the "saving" of 4201 was a miracle in itself. <br />Two other E-7s (one B&M, one other PRR unit) were preserved briefly but later went to the scrap torch. <br />Diesel preservation really didn't reach any respectable maturity until the 1980s and by that time it was too late for many units we lost. Yesterday's generation was still busy throwing temper tantrums over the loss of their precious steam locos and when us Baby Boomers tried to speak up on behalf of endangered 1st generation diesels, we were told "Children should be seen and not heard", and that steamers had character and soul, but diesels were as bland and lifeless as dead fish. <br />That's why so many models of diesels are extinct today.
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