What type of diesel would you like to see preserved?

[MOPACnut]

 

I've been thinking of posting this after the "fallen flag car" discussion. I don't meant the obvious ones (i agree though, save every F-40PH left), i mean ones nobody would think of otherwise.
 Ok. If i won 100 mil in the lottery i'd find a place to build a shop, and restore these:

SD-45-2. Santa Fe bicentennial scheme
GP-35's in Santa Fe kodachrome (or a C-30-7 or SF-30c), and 70's blue and yellow
Something in Frisco mandarin orange and white
SD-40-2 MKT green and yellow
SD-40-2 MP with screaming eagle on side (the 1st one i'd do ;) )
GP-38-2 Rock blue and white
GP-35 RI red and yellow
SD-40T-2's in SP and SSW gray and scarlet, SP kodachrome, and Rio Grande (actually efforts are under way to save DRGW no. 5371 after UP retires it)
SD-50 CNW
no i'm not EMD biased
U-30-C NP yellow and black (if any 30-c's are left)
GP-38's and SD-40-2's in Clinchfield, SCL, Seaboard System, Family Lines, and L&N 
GP-10 ICG orange and white
and some others
See what i'm getting at? I'm not aware of any of these being preserved (hopefully i'm wrong).
  At least there's 2 MP diesels i know of being saved, a RS-3 in St. Louis and a former Kyle/NYC GP-7 has been repainted into gray and blue at Downs, Ks.

 

[espeefoamer]

An MRL F45(ex BN). Several Santa Fe FP45s have been preserved,but not one F45.

[EJE818]

I'd like to see a EJ&E SD38-2 donated to IRM. For years I wanted a WC SD45 preserved there and thankfully that want became a reality with the 7525. Hopefully it is the same for the EJ&E. I'd also like to see some Rock and GM&O stuff preserved and restored to their original paint jobs.

[fafnir242]

I know a couple of these have been preserved, but I'd like to see a UP turbine restored to running order.

Also, I don't know if any still exist or not, but I want to see a DD35.

And:

C855 (if still in existance)

U50C (same as above)

(can't you tell I'm a sucker for powerful locomotives.lol)

Oooo!! I know, and it's under 2000 hp this time.  If Illinois & Midland ever retires the RS1325s, or goes out of business, I hope they get preserved.  Send them over to Monticello or up to the IRM.

[Railway Man]

All gone but the RS1325s and a turbine.

[MOPACnut]

  Speaking of the SD-45-2's. After doing some research, i found out the only remaining original Bicentennial one is 5704, now BNSF 6484. Any idea if this one's still arround? If so if one needs to be saved this is it.

[J. Edgar]

anything pre-1950 by any builder other then EMD....not that i am anti-EMD its just that a plain vanilla Geep is a plain vanilla Geep

[New Haven I-5]

Any Alco or Montreal Locomotive Works diesels.

[Great Western]

A certain contender is undoubtedly D&RGW 5371 SD40-2T tunnel motor which I believe is now retired from duty.

  

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

A BRC cow-calf set would be nice.

[arkansasrailfan]

I would like to see any 40 and 45 series, along with the 60 and 50, 48 series I would like to see some C30-7s preserved, as I only remember them when I was 2.( I dare you to ask me what I remember) also some CF7s(why should we, their EVERYWHERE-JK, actually we should preserve a couple)

[Ham549]

 

(i agree though, save every F-40PH left)

 

You could help with that by getting stuff at my online store ^_^ 

[scottychaos]

GE C32-8

only TEN total were ever built! 

all bought by Conrail.

Today one survives in Brazil, and two to four (reports are unclear)at a scrap yard in Pennsylvania.  very unique units, could soon be extinct.

Scot 

 

[rogruth]

Try to get one representative of each model from every builder.Owner would not be important.

I know this is not possible.Too many already gone. 

[Mr_Ash]

I'd rather see more restored / operating steam

 

[fafnir242]

All gone but the RS1325s and a turbine.

***.  Still, though, are any of the surviving turbines in operating condition, or are they too costly to be operated by museums?

[ArtOfRuin]

-SD80MAC in Conrail colors (only about 30 were ever built)

-C415 (I know of at least one still in operation somewhere)

-One of each type of ALCo/MLW loco that haven't been preserved yet

-U30C (again, there's one operating out there somewhere)

-SD26 (two left- save one in Santa Fe colors and one in Guilford colors)

[oltmannd]

GE C32-8

only TEN total were ever built! 

all bought by Conrail.

Today one survives in Brazil, and two to four (reports are unclear)at a scrap yard in Pennsylvania.  very unique units, could soon be extinct.

Scot 

They would be noteworthy because they were the first production Dash 8s

[oltmannd]

GE C32-8

only TEN total were ever built! 

all bought by Conrail.

Today one survives in Brazil, and two to four (reports are unclear)at a scrap yard in Pennsylvania.  very unique units, could soon be extinct.

Scot 

They would be noteworthy because they were the first production Dash 8s

[pm_1225]

 -C415 (I know of at least one still in operation somewhere)

-One of each type of ALCo/MLW loco that haven't been preserved yet

 

The C415 ALCo demonstrator is preserved in Dampier West Australia, as is a shell of a C628 no engine/traction motors etc but looks the part, and an M636 that is complete also looks the part even though it is Australian built. Another M636 is preserved at Port Hedland in Western Australia while another is preserved in state capital Perth this one is not complete [no engine] 

[n012944]

-U30C (again, there's one operating out there

There is one preserved already:

http://www.irm.org/gallery/album41/aabsomewhere)

 

[MOPACnut]

  All of you have come up with some great examples of ones that need to be preserved. The question is is anybody who could do it listening?

Here's a few more:

GP-38-2 TP&W red & white

something in Soo Line red and white

F-7a's in MP gray & blue, MKT red, yellow, and silver, ATSF blue and silver,and ATSF cigar band blue & yellow (don't have to be an original, especially since few orig's are left anyway in original form)

C-40-8W Santa Fe warbonnet (this one would be in the distant future)

GP-39-2 Santa Fe blue and yellow

GP-50 BN tiger stipe scheme

GP-28

GP-7 GN big sky blue and white

[fafnir242]

I don't know if there are still any (pretty sure they've all been scrapped), but are there any P30CHs still left?

[oltmannd]

GE C32-8

only TEN total were ever built! 

all bought by Conrail.

Today one survives in Brazil, and two to four (reports are unclear)at a scrap yard in Pennsylvania.  very unique units, could soon be extinct.

Scot 

Normally, I'd say "no" to any locomotive model that was a real dog and I think that a neat paint scheme is a poor reason to enshrine a machine.  I think an example of the typical and the ground-breaking should be enshrined.

So, in this case, the C32-8 qualifies.  It was the first production Dash 8 model out of Erie and had lots of new features, not the least of which was a computerized control system, which, 20 years later are still at the heart of GE's locomotive design.  So, it was huge as a ground-breaker.

Along the same lines, I'd grab one of the EMD SD60 demonstrators and a BN SD70MAC.

For the typical, I'd make sure I had an SD40-2, GP40-2, GP38-2, U23B and/or B23-7, and a Dash 9W.

[Lord Atmo]

1. Any CNW SD40-2 in either old yellow or zito yellow

2. Any CNW SD50 in zito yellow

3. Any CNW SD60 in zito yellow

4. Any CNW SD45 in any paint scheme they carried

Basically nothing in traditional yellow unless it's a dash 8. the nose logo absolutely killed the look for the EMDs. and the class lights were removed too. TY was a big step in the wrong direction.

Oh, and no widecabs until at least 1 spartan cab makes it to a museum

[challenger3980]

How about ALL DISEASELS STUFFED AND MOUNTED, bring back STEAM!!!!

OK OK I know it will never happen, but in a what if kind of topic like this, that is what I would love to see preserved.

                                                 Doug

[hf1001]

AMTK GE P42DC

AMTK Dash 8

[TomDiehl]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned my personal favorite, the Baldwin RF-16 Sharknose. There's two of them stashed out of sight in a warehouse in (I believe) Michigan, and they're the only two that still exist. The last I heard, they had a quasi-D&H paint scheme.

[fredswain]

I may be kind of boring but my favorite diesel was always the SD-40-2. I'd like to see one in MOPAC colors and one in Burlington Northern colors live forever! Those were my favorite railroads.

[Ster1]

I think the Locomotives I like to see preserved:

1) ex MGA B23-7R's noteble because they were to only super-7's riding on Blomberg trucks

2) CSX's GP15T