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GMD-1 Preservation...anyone interested in helping???
GMD-1 Preservation...anyone interested in helping???
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enr2099
Member since
September 2002
From: Burnaby
525 posts
Posted by
enr2099
on Saturday, February 19, 2005 2:15 AM
I hope so too, been trying to raise the funds to get the locie since October, and we're still at $50 bucks.
Tyler W. CN hog
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athelney
Member since
May 2003
From: Abbotsford BC Canada
300 posts
Posted by
athelney
on Friday, February 18, 2005 9:33 PM
Like the idea of preserving a GMD-1 - especially one with links to the Island , hope you can bring it together . BC can do with as many preserved loco's as it can get.
2860 Restoration Crew
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enr2099
Member since
September 2002
From: Burnaby
525 posts
GMD-1 Preservation...anyone interested in helping???
Posted by
enr2099
on Friday, February 18, 2005 1:44 PM
The E&N division of the Canadian Railroad Historical Association is trying to raise funds to aquire GMD-1 1170 from its current owners. The 1170 is an historically important artifact to railroading on Vancouver Island as it, as no. 1070, pulled the last CN train on Vancouver Island from CN's Pt. Ellice yard in Victoria to the end of steel near mile 1.1 on the Saanich Spur(3 miles from the Pt. Ellice yard). We can have the unit for $50,000, including transportation costs to get the unit from North Bay, ON to Victoria, BC. Once we get the unit to Victoria, as part of our plans to turn the old CP shops in Victoria into a museum, the unit would be restored to it's condition when it was in service on the island. The unit would be used for public events, and pulling excursions on Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway trackage.
Those interested in making a donation contact me off the list. enrailway@yahoo.ca
Thanks
Tyler W.
Director-BCRHA
E&N Division member, spearheading GMD-1 preservation project.
Tyler W. CN hog
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