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Post by twincities on Oct 29, 2019 17:47:34 GMT
on virtual rail train cam the tanks of an SD-9 being drained as the township refused the engines donation from bnsf and so it will go to a scraping facility or at least that is what the chat is saying. I feel like am losing an old friend that I grew up with watching them blaze the tracks for the now modern GE engines
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Post by ptc on Oct 29, 2019 17:52:16 GMT
Very short sighted on the townships part. The folks love trains and it could have been made into a nice attraction.
The mayor should have had a model train as a kid. |
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Post by twincities on Oct 29, 2019 18:04:38 GMT
ptc I heard they had a chemical spill and the cleanup dug up a lot of the town so that too might be a side reason as well as its a very small township so maybe not enough money to support the donation not sure myself how it all works.
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Post by Joe Saggese on Oct 29, 2019 18:09:42 GMT
Do you have a picture of it? Its to bad another town didnt grab it.....
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Post by twincities on Oct 29, 2019 18:33:37 GMT
  Here you go I really shrunk it down from screen shot |
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Post by ptc on Oct 29, 2019 20:40:39 GMT
Perhaps if the the word was spread, a train museum will pick it up. The one in Sacramento might work as it is on the West Coast.
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Post by 4dogsinjersey on Oct 29, 2019 21:05:48 GMT
In the 1960s there was a C&O Berkshire (or Kanawha) that was donated to the city of Buffalo, NY and displayed in Front Park. The city refused to fence it in or simply maintain it. It was slowly vandalized to the point where people complained about it being an eyesore. There were no takers to get it off the hands of the city, so it was simply scrapped in place after a few months on display... Tom  |
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Post by dennym57 on Oct 29, 2019 21:07:51 GMT
I wish I could buy it. I know just the track to run it on.
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