Restored 60 Year old Switcher Moves to Manhattan Park

[Anonymous]

From the New York Times:

"Celebrate not the Midnight Special or the Wabash Cannonball, but trusty old No. 25, the floating locomotive. Yesterday it embarked on the most colorful chapter of its saga: a barge ride from Brooklyn across New York Harbor to its destiny as the centerpiece of Manhattan’s newest public park.

"No. 25 is neither Thomas the Tank Engine nor the Little Engine That Could, but a proletarian switching engine that finished its life of toil on the Brooklyn waterfront. It is destined now to spend the rest of its days “as a magnet for children, as only a locomotive can be,” said Adrian Benepe, the city’s parks commissioner.

"The 95-ton, 60-year-old engine was barged yesterday from the New York Cross Harbor Railroad in Brooklyn to Jersey City, where it was loaded on another barge equipped with a crane. Tonight, it will float across the Hudson to a slip on West 45th Street. In the early hours tomorrow, it will be lifted onto a flatbed truck, transported and then carefully deposited to the east of the West Side Highway on 62nd Street — about 50 yards from the river."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/11/nyregion/11engine.html?

Dave

[ericsp]

Unfortunately, it will probably be so vandalized withing a year that nobody will recognize it.