Strasburg Cumberland Valley Replica?

[Anonymous]

I heard that the Strasburg has been building a replica of a Cumberland Valley steam loco for about the last 10 years.  Is this true, and any pictures?

[railroad imaginator]

I don't know, but I do remember seeing a Cumberland Valley tender in the yard behind the shop.  Maybe they're not building a new one, but restoring an old one.

[Anonymous]

railroad imaginator

I don't know, but I do remember seeing a Cumberland Valley tender in the yard behind the shop.  Maybe they're not building a new one, but restoring an old one.

 The tender is from either a CN or CP loco that somebody painted for the CV.  They are restoring that one.

[railroad imaginator]

santafe347

railroad imaginator

I don't know, but I do remember seeing a Cumberland Valley tender in the yard behind the shop.  Maybe they're not building a new one, but restoring an old one.

 The tender is from either a CN or CP loco that somebody painted for the CV.  They are restoring that one.

Now that you mention it, your right.  Strasburg has Georgs Hart's old CP ten-wheeler 972 (somewhere), so maybe theyre restroing it to look like a Cumberland Valley engine.  Although, if they restore it, where will they display/run it?

[pajrr]

In the 1980's George Hart ran his CP #972 out of Jim Thorpe, PA on the old CNJ line. The locomotive was lettered for Cumberland Valley. The locomotive has been out of service for many years. I believe that  Strasburg now owns the engine as per George Hart's will. I don't think it will be modelled as a genuine Cumberland Valley locomotive. It's just that they received it that way and I'm sure they have more important matters to attend to than to paint out an old tourist RR name on an old tender.

[rdgk1se3019]

 It was not in his will .....it was rebuilt and he refused to pay for it so Strasburg kept it.

[LNER4472]

Actually, the "Cumberland Valley" paint dates back to one series of trips on the Conrail main line to and from Harrisburg ca. 1984.  And I *think* that tender was used as an auxiliary water tender.

[rdgk1se3019]

 If you saw the tender just to the right of it ( if looking towards the museum ) is the loco it went with.....firebox completely removed along with many other parts.