First 7 Loco announced for Streamliners at Spencer

Are the UP E units coming?  

Have they even been requested?

If only there was a way to get the Medina NY RR Museum's NYC E-8 4068 & 4080 down to Spencer in 2014.  Perhaps a collective effort could do it?

http://railroadmuseum.net/the-...passenger-equipment/

Well looks like the UP 949 and C&NW 411 from the IRM will be there also...this should be quite the gathering.

Especially with ACL E-3 501 up and running.  Does anyone know if her "sick goose" horn has been repaired or replaced?

I just left the museum and they were working on a Southern unit's front pilot's paint job. I can never be in the right place at the right time!!! I bet it's going to be another great event.

Yunz people are really stoking my inner Dieselover !   Whew, this will be majorly outstanding. Wishing all involved the greatest success possible !

Well I sure don't know who "Yunz" is, but just wait until you find out what the rest of the  units are that are going to be at Spencer Shops!

Are you talking about ones other than these as mentioned below as "More Attending Locomotives To Be Announced Soon"?  Please let us in on any rumors you may have heard?

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More Attending Locomotives To Be Announced Soon

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I don't deal in rumors. You simply will NOT believe what "other" diesels are being planned for attendance there.

"Thr Great Gathering, American Version"!

Yunz have to be from Pixxburgh to unnerstand......yunz !   Or was it Pizzburgh ? 

Hey, if you're having N&W 611...then UP #18 from IRM ought to be there too !

Why?  I'm not aware that ANY of the Union Pacific turbines were EVER considered "Streamlined" nor "Streamliners".

It would be nice to see those new rebuilt Santa Fe F3 to make the trip to Spencer!

Not streamlined??? !!!  I'd call UP #18 every bit as "streamlined" as any Alco FA or PA cab unit. Same with any of the "standard" Turbines.  Veranda's?? Well, maybe not. How about a cab / hood hybrid ?  OTOH, If #18 is not streamlined,  then what is It, eh?   Is she a streamliner?  Certainly not...unless she's subbing for an ailing Alco PA, on Mail #5 !  Huzzah !

Yes indeed!!!

Frankly, I would suspect the 18 needs a lot of work and $$$ to become road worthy again, even for a dead-in-train movement.  Time and money better spent on other IRM restoration projects.  The 18 is a paperweight now.

Rusty

Number eighteen is indeed a paperweight now, because the cost of restoration, even back to her original config, would make the 4014 affair look like a Sunday picnic ! IF it ever happens, look for both GE and UP to be involved, along with big time outside corporate sponsors. 

You guys need to get the B&O and the RDG engines. Santa Fe may be had if you got BNSF(tell them UP is sending one) TO haul east and get the NS to go the rest of the way…maybe

The BNSF and NS railroads are already planning movements.

I think the only way 4068 & 4080 would ever get to Spencer would be if CSX bought them from the Medina Railroad Musem and made them FRA certified.  CSX did haul them up to Medina NY from Tennessee in 2007.

The Museum purchased a pair of historic New York Central E-8 diesel locomotives (NYC 4068 and NYC 4080) from Michael Fox of Kansas in 2007. The Units were transported via CSXT from Nashville, TN arriving in Lockport, NY in early April 2007.

New York Central E-8 diesel locomotive

New E-8’s on display in Lockport on April 29, 2007

E-8 experts Roger and Dwayne Fuehring (sons of the late Bill Fuehring who was instrumental in forming the national Rail Passenger Car Association) were on hand to check them over and fire them up. However, having not been operated in the previous 3 years, the E-8’s needed a good deal of maintenance and service. The units were stored in Lockport for a couple of years and are now stored in Medina, where they are undergoing restoration as time and funds permit.

In early August 2007 the Fuehring brothers were back in Lockport assisting with the servicing necessary to bring these units up to FRA maintenance standards for return to active duty on the “Falls Branch and Erie Canal Excursions” between Medina and Lockport, NY. New motor brushes and a pair of bolster shims have been installed. One replacement governor has been installed and checked out. Most of the FRA 92-day inspections have been completed. The brake valves were sent out for re-certification. Volunteer labor has been difficult to schedule and these units have not been in service here yet. Hopefully they will be ready for service soon.

Your help in preserving these great locomotives will be most welcome. Upgrades and service work on these units is very expensive. Donations and gifts for this work will be greatly appreciated and can be mailed to us.

Here are few videos explaining how the E-8 operates.

OK WHAT ATSF F3 units?  The two ex-SP units rebuilt and painted Warbonnet sitting in Galveston  TX?

Yeah I was thinking that they where F3 but they're really F-7 that where repainted into the Santa Fe warbonnet scheme.

Still it would be nice if they showed up for the event!!

Long gone but since it was built at Spencer it will be there in spirit to help #611 support streamline steam. "The Tennessean".

"I don't deal in rumors. You simply will NOT believe what "other" diesels are being planned for attendance"

when will this be public?

I don't know when the museum and Trains Magazine will make any "official announcements".

Is Doyle McCormack's NKP 190 (former ATSF 62-L, DH 18, NdM ?) ALco PA1 ready for a cross country trip from Portland, OR?  A PA1, E3 and 611 would be enough to get in me in the car and drive to Spencer.

Ed Rappe

Ed,

Wouldn't it worth a drive there to see BOTH an E3 AND an E5?

The E5's not on the list (at least, as of this posting so far.)  Is a little birdie saying something?  I was wondering if the 9911 might be considered "too valuable" to travel so far afield.

Rusty

Hot

The E5 is neat and it would make a great addition to the list of EMC/EMD locomotives making an appearance.  My enthusiasm for NKP 190 relates to never having seen an ALco PA1up close and personal.  I checked the NKP 190 site and it appears from photos that Doyle and crew have fully restored the body. Does anyone on the forum know if it's capable of running in excursion service? 

Ed Rappe

Yes, someone on this Forum knows.

Now, if YOU would also like to know; the answer is, not quite yet. The engine has been run, but the heavy cabling from the electrical cabinets to the traction motors needs to be installed, and then she should be able to move under her own power.

To get an Alco PA to the streamliner event would be EPIC to say the lease.

I bet FedEx could be talked into it.

It absolutely would be worth it...

I don't get the FedEx connection?  Donations, perhaps?  I don't think they shipped locomotives?

Have you ever asked them for a quote?

found a couple more. I took a lot of the stalls in the Spencer shops and the museum's trains. U can't walk thru where they're working so I didn't get all the engines. There's an E8? ACL there for example back in the dark area behind.

 I was told they sent out one of the Southern Es for some work.