A new home for Milwaukee Road #265?

Just my opinion, but if that lady, or anybody in her "group", told me the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, I'll check THAT info for sure this evening!

This whole thing sounds just like that guy, back in the late 1990s, that was going to overhaul the 4018 in the Dallas Museum, and make a movie with it. The guy collected a LOT of money and donations at the Sacramento Rail Fair in 1999, then nobody has seen him, NOR THE MONEY, since!

Hmmmm, interesting.

They named the locomotive "Old Smoky?" You've got to be kidding me. What a terrible, hoaky name.

Steve Sandberg and the 261 have the market sowed up in that part of the world. Where will the money come from?

It sure is a sweet looking locomotive.Hope it is well taking of.

Here is a scan of a photo I took in 1997.

Like many "talking points" in regard to pipe dream proposals this one is DOA with nothing substantiated behind it and is safely regarded as a loopy and unfunded concept with no basis in reality. It is on a par with rebuilding a GG1 for operations on the corridor. Wouldn't it be nice. The name of this tune is cash that requires a structural reality of well heeled voluntary contributors. Or, if pigs fly.. in regard to kitchen table -internet -virtual organisations.

I worked for a while in Milwaukee in the '80s. I read news stories that the old shop complex is nearly a toxic super-site according to the EPA. Lubricants and contaminants permeate the soil.  This is where the group wants to make a museum? A mall tried to start up there and ran into too many obstacles. Things could have changed, I haven't been north of the Cheddar Curtain much since then, so I can't say how the area is now.

But I'd wager the 265 isn't going anywhere.

Thank you for the info and photos jay jay. The 261&265 are two of my favorites.I just love the looks of them.