If you were given $5,000,000 to restore a train it would be....

[Anonymous]

I don´t know if 5 mills would be enough, but if I could restore a whole complete train, then it would be SP´s 1950 15 car Sunset Limited complete with Mail/Baggage car, Baggage Dormitory, Sleepy Hollow Coaches, Pride of Texas Coffee Shop, Audubon Diner, French Quarter Lounge and the 10-6 Sleepers with the Blunt End Sleeper too. And the probably best feature would be the 4449 deskirted and painted black pulling the train!!!

[Anonymous]

A Big Boy!

[PBenham]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

How about this...

exSP #3025 4-4-2 Atlantic w/ 81" drivers and 3 or 4 restored coaches, this engine is rusting in peace here in L.A. at Traveltown Museum in Griffith Park[:p]

I may be a died in the wool easterner, but this girl does look very nice! Well, now I know why it appealed to me! Erie had a group of high wheel 4-4-2s from Baldwin in classes E3 and E4, built as compounds and simpled when they were superheated, if not before! See them in Fred Westing and Alvin Staufer's "Erie Power" Pg.232-245.

[vsmith]

How about this...

exSP #3025 4-4-2 Atlantic w/ 81" drivers and 3 or 4 restored coaches, this engine is rusting in peace here in L.A. at Traveltown Museum in Griffith Park[:p]

[PBenham]

The N&W A class 1218, but I wonder if $5 extra large would do it.[:(] BTW Digital Griffin, If $5 extra large could get an H-8 out on the road, I'll be there, if only to experience the earthquake that puppy would start as it rolled by me at, say, 60 per![:p]

[GN-Rick]

GN 2584, GN 3059, GN 2523, GN2507, GN 1147, GN 1246

[Gunns]

LOL half a mill would fin***he 2926... we should have the tender back together tis year (maby as soon as next month)
Gunns

[trolleyboy]

Wow tough choice. that's years of operating money for oue museum,however our first two cars in the collection have not operated regularly in years,both need complete top to bottom rebuilds,bout $1m of it would do, and 1326, a double trucked deck roofed TR car from 1915 and 55 a single trucked arch foofed 1917 car from the Toronto Civic railway would be back up and going, the rest of the money would be used for mainline and storage building repairs, construction and upgrades,heck i bet we could make two or three other cars operational as well. www.hcry.org

Rob

[TomDiehl]

It would be a tough choice, between steam and classic diesels.

On the steam side, I'd like to see the NKP 759 restored. If not possible, one of the Reading T-1's that could stay in NE Pennsylvania

On the diesel side, I'd like to take a trip to Michigan and see if I could get hold of the last two Baldwin RF-16's, my favorite of the early diesels, and I understand, the last two of them in existance.

[DigitalGriffin]

I'm sure it's been asked 1000's of times before, but I was wondering,

If you had $5,000,000 to be used to restore a train and take it out of mothballs, and restore to working order, what would it be and why?

My vote: the H-8 (2-6-6-6) at the B&O museum down in Baltimore. She's in real real bad shape and might not be saveable. But I would act now before she deterioates any more.

While there is one in "decent" condition at the Henry Ford museum, there are only 2 left of the biggest baddest beast in the east.