Any Penn Central Motive Power Left?

[Munster518]

I'm a big fan of O gauge trains and recently have becoming interested in the Penn Central railroad. Other then the NYC, I'm trying to get some ideas as to what other railroads I should model. My question is, is there still any Penn Central motive power still around that I would be able to go see like at a historic railway perserve or mueseum? I've seen a lot of Penn boxcars and gondolas but nothing in the means of motive power. Any info would be appreciated, thanks.

John

[Anonymous]

www.rrmuseumpa.org and www.pcrrhs.org are a couple of good websites to go to about Penn Central. Also, you might see if the Museum of Transportation at St. Louis has any Penn Central locomotives. I do know that they have an Erie Lackawanna SD45 that they maintain and display. Their website is www.museumoftransport.org. If you're modeling Penn Central then what you could do is model different years of the Penn Central Railroad, you could model one year of Pennsylvania RR using PRR engines and cars, then you could bring out the PC and NYC stuff and make it look like the NYC/PRR merger, then later you could add Reading, Lehigh Valley, Erie Lackawanna cars and locomotives and represent the beginning of Conrail. You could use the same layout, but just put out a notecard or something with the Current Operating Year that your layout is in. I'm doing that on my new layout, I'm modeling NS and Conrail from 1996-2006, I'm doing a lot of paperwork that shows how each line runs their trains in each individual year. For example, in 1996 I still use my Southern caboose on grain trains and then when I change the operating year to 1997 I take the Southern caboose off and put it on a display track and I start running my SD70 with my NS trains. And on Conrail, when I change the operating year to 1999 I start adding a lot of CSX locomotives to the layout to represent the Conrail split of June 1, 1999. I think that you modeling Penn Central would be a great idea. I hope you find a Penn Central locomotive somewhere.

[eastside]

Nothing personal intended, but I’m dying to know why you’re interested in modeling the PC, one of the greatest corporate catastrophes in US history. Surely it’s not because of the livery. If they had gone either way after the merger with either the PRR or NYC scheme I would have been satisfied, but instead the PC chose the generic scheme. Remember when generic products first came out? Plain black and white cereal boxes, cigarette packages, ketchup labels, canned tomatoes, detergent boxes, etc., that's how ugly the PC livery was to me.

From a long-time NYC partisan.

[Anonymous]

There is a Penn Central GP9 on display in Wellsburg WV.