Edit post

Edit your reply below.

Post Body
Enter your post below.
I rode on board an FP9 recently, and I have seen what goes into restoring an E8.They are both beautifully maintained, but parts are hard to come by.  If you actually get one, I hope you have the ability to build your own.  The E8 is huge; it's two sets of everything, plus sometimes an additional generator in the back.These locomotives haven't been built from the erection table up for a long time.  Your competition is out there in the form of short lines, excursion lines, and museums all hunting for the same parts.  Then you have to deal with actually mounting those parts, and keep in mind that we are talking about a large machine with heavy duty parts, not the Camaro under the tree.  To keep this megatonnage machine going, you have to have a place to maintain it, and it's best if that place has a crane or two capable of lifting your engine off the tracks.  Add in test equipment and tools and you are talking some serious bucks.Then you have to find a place to run the engine.  If you are going to buy the locomotive, it makes sense to buy a passenger car (or a caboose) that it can pull.  The cab of a FP or an E is not a real comfortable place.  These things aren't cheap, and getting permission to run them on a railroad is not cheap, either.You might want to rethink the whole thing.Erik
Tags (Optional)
Tags are keywords that get attached to your post. They are used to categorize your submission and make it easier to search for. To add tags to your post type a tag into the box below and click the "Add Tag" button.
Add Tag