AT&SF 2-10-4 # 5000 To Become Operational?

Where would you run it?  The Queen is a heavy thing!  And the Transcon is not a slow place!

I would love to see her run! Thanks for posting.

=Glenn

Well, we do have the ex-Santa Fe line to La Junta via Las Animas Jct. as well as the ex-Fort Worth & Denver line south to Fort Worth via Childress and Wichita Falls and north to Trinidad -- all three single track and one dark, one half dark, and one ABS then dark.  However, we are out on the high plains, hundreds of miles from any usable passenger cars and any population.  The territory served by the single track lines to the north is the very definition of sparsely populated -- mostly grassland and cows.

I would be thrilled to see this happen, but I am not holding my breath for a 50 MPH medium sized steam engine to be financed, restored, and operated here in the windy ol' Texas panhandle.

Not to mention the Wadder.

They would have to pull the flues and test each and every one. The jacket comes off and so on.

I am familiar with that part of the Nation, Everything is mostly single track and BNSF takes care of the trains in the area.

This would be awesome if it happens!

Good luck to the team!

Henry J

It will be interesting to follow....guess we will see what happens.

They would have to do a LOT more than that! All the flues would have to be REPLACED, plus all the other CFR 230 work would have to be done. Measure the thickness of the boiler steel every square foot; repair whatever the ultra-sound inspection revealed; calculate a new Form 4; overhaul the running gear; overhaul the appliances; overhaul the valve gear...$1 million might do it.

I'll believe it when I see it.

With the economy in the pits where is all the money for steam restoration coming from.  I love steam but is it feasonible to get all the engines running again.

I know the Grand Canyon line stopped using steam full time afew years bank as it was too expensive and now will run on a limited schedule using recycled corn oil they use in there restraunts.

Check out the lines website and read about it.