Change the existence and/or condition of 5 Steam Locomotives

This is intriguing:

My 5 would be:

1-  The last narrow gauge South Park Mason Bogie that was cut up during the scrap drives of World War 2.........wasn't.  It was ultimately restored and found a good home in Colorado.  These were such unique machines.

2-  A 1938 NYC Dreyfuss streamlined Hudson is recreated.  Given the tight clearances that these were built for, it could pretty well go anywhere that steam is permitted.  Matching Aux. tender with one or two authentic Twentieth Century cars that would accompany it.  An absolutely stunning, timeless classic that even the general public would be dazzled by.

3-  K-4 1361: pretty much like BessemerSam suggests.

4-  Bring a couple of the surviving Sierra Railroad locomotives back to Jamestown, CA.  that have been scattered to the four winds.

5- PRR T-1 TRUST project.

RDG T1 2101 - Running in her Chessie colors

C&O 614 - Restored to operating condition in her working colors without ditchlights!

An attempt to bring back all D&RGW narrow gauge steam locomotives at the C&T and D&S!

Let's make that PRR Big Jay functional !  We'll keep #6435 at Heinz Field during the Stillerz season, on display.  This will be an adequate replacement for Jerome Bettis... well mebby.  Then when the play is over, We get her out, run her over to Conway for a good tune up, and hit the ex-PRR main...running between Altoona and Columbus.  Could even run a fan trip on the Sandusky Line. Hardest part here will be a frame if we gotta do this from scratch...but in an alternate universe, 6435 survives intact.  There is a .001% chance this could happen anyway, as she was never sold for scrap, or cut up by the Penn.

  Even more unlikely, but still remotely possible...we bust thru all the politics, bad blood, and outright B.S. and send the 1361 parts to Strasburg, where she is re-assembled into a real functional chooch ( with new crown and boiler sheets) to operate at 205 PSI.  The finished machine then is sent to the NY&LB for some dynamite fan trips with ex PRR passenger cars. Pull this off, and you just might raise Don Wood from the grave !

Wow this is going to be tough (not). All restored to operating condition (as Stationary Boilers). Route the electricity as co-gen back into the grid.

UP #80 Coal Turbine (bending the rules just a touch)

N&W #2300 Steam Turbine Electric

C&O #500 Steam Turbine Electric

PRR #6200 Steam Turbine

UP #1 Steam Turbine Electric

I have 4 of 5 in O Scale. Waiting patiently for UP #1. Hey, I never thought I'd have my N&W 2300! It could happen....

Where? "Gilly's Turbine Town" in Midlothian, Virginia of course!

Relocate the overhaul of UP 844, 4014 and 3985 to Spencer N.C. As Larry the Cable Guy would say, "Git 'er Dun!"

Return them as a triple header under steam to Cheyenne Wyoming! That would be a spectacular sight.

For the last two, N&W 1218 & 2156. Again, off to Spencer and return them home under steam.

Ross has covers for the ditch lights when not required by the railroad (NJT).

Put Frisco 1522 back into operation.

I wish Sandy River & Rangely Lakes #24 was still around.

Restore NYC 999 to her as built appearance and get her operating.

N&W 1218 in operation again.

Recreate a J3A Hudson and see it operate.

Jeff C

Build track to the Ohio and float her across the river.  This would be tough but not impossible.  Or you could use the snap track approach to get  her through the point area.

I really like the idea of a complete restoration of 999;  84" drivers and all !

Just two.

Build a new J3 super Hudson and return one Santa Fe Hudson to steam

i think i'd at least bring the K4 and M1 in out of the weather at the strasburg museum. was there last summer and what a shame

No doubt have the Big Boy at Steamtown, 4012, in operational condition.

You mean like this? http://www.santafe3463.org/

Hey, I've been wondering about that one. They have upgraded their web image but it still sounds like a pipe dream to rebuild a formerly derelict loco for 130mph operation on bio-fuels. They're looking for a wealthy sponsor, I reckon. 

1. A NYC J1 or J3 would be nice to have around today.

2. As would a B&O EM-1. IMO the prettiest large articulated.

3. As if my opinion matters, I think a Soo Line N-20 mountain would be a handsome addition. The Soo O-20 northern ain't no slouch either.

4. I'll agree. SR&RL #24 should still be around.

5. And my personal favorite; Morristown and Erie #7. Just a 2-4-0 but I like it.

All these engines were scrapped.

Has anyone said IC #382 yet? Okay there's six.

OK.  I'll play. 

All IRM locomotives:

N&W Y3 2-8-8-2 2050

AT&SF 2900 class 4-8-4 2903

CB&Q S4 4-6-4 3007

CB&Q O1a 2-8-2 4963

IC 2-6-0 3719

Rusty

I just want one. I would have Norfolk Southern call up the Smithsonian and tell them they are reclaiming this for the steam program.

A Santa Fe Blue Goose that would be with the SBRHS (3751 Guys), a Milwaukee road Hiawatha Hudson, Erie Triplex, SP AC-9 and a NYC Dreyfuss Hudson

I wish my choices could be maintained and run as well as NKP 765.

All 4 Reading T-1's - 2100, 2101, 2102, and 2124 - restored and secure.

The first NYC Niagara, 6000, ditto.

One of the first 11 Reading K-1 2-10-2's rebuilt from 2-8-8-2's (3000 - 3010) upgraded with tapered main rods, cross-counterbalancing, and steam chest relief valves.

Philadelphia & Reading (Atlantic City Railroad) record-setting speed queen Camelback 4-4-2 1027. Have side-by-side steam chests to simulate a Vauclain compound. Beef her up with piston valves, a superheater, a front-end throttle, roller bearings, a cast frame, and a Reading G-1sa passenger whistle.

Have Nelson Blount purchase Jersey Central Camelback 4-6-0 774 for Steamtown and get her restored and running.

Lehigh Valley T-1 4-8-4's inspired Reading T-1's, so I'd like one to doublehead with a Reading T-1 now and then. Nods to LV T-1's were the class letter ("T") and the numbers (5100 became 2100). That fit nicely after the I-10sa 2-8-0's from which they were rebuilt (2020-2049). An Elesco feedwater heater would be a nice touch.

Looking at a Reading T-1, it's hard to imagine that wide Wootten firebox and the first two boiler courses and smokebox atop a frame and running gear of an I-10sa 2-8-0. So I'd like to save and run the first I-10sa, 2000. I could easily be persuaded to add a huge Lehigh & Hudson River 2-8-0 (90-95) because they had Worthington feedwater heaters.

For sheer size, mass, and power, I'd like to trot out a Western Maryland Potomac 4-8-4.

Finally, I'd like a dining car in an excursion consist so I could show my gratitude to crews who keep these bruisers running. Sit them down and serve scrapple, at least once, just to see our Webmaster's reaction.

Maybe that dining car should have doors that lock.

TVRM has a Canadian 4-6-1 that I think is a USRA design that could make for an excellent stand-in for a PS-4...

I guess I'm lucky, in that I've seen a Reading T-1 running in recent years and got to chase and ride behind her.

 

Sure would love to see SP 4294 back on the high iron someday. A volunteer at CSRM confirmed to me a few years back that Phillip Anschutz came into the museum once and stared at her for a long time, apparently pondering if she could be restored to run on the SP he was looking to control, at the time...

 

 

Originally Posted by SouthernMike:

I just want one. I would have Norfolk Southern call up the Smithsonian and tell them they are reclaiming this for the steam program.

 

TVRM has a Canadian 4-6-1 that I think is a USRA design that could make for an excellent stand-in for a PS-4...

I also consider myself lucky to see double headed around Horseshoe Curve and riding on the Blue Mtn & Reading.

I guess I'm lucky, in that I've seen a Reading T-1 running in recent years and got to chase and ride behind her.

Yes, you are! The rest of us dream

TVRM has a Canadian 4-6-1 that I think is a USRA design that could make for an excellent stand-in for a PS-4.

I have similar thoughts about Reading & Northern 4-6-2 No. 425

that BM&R Pacific is pretty small to stand on for a PS-4...

This is the one at TVRM I was referring to:

I don't think it'd be that big a deal to make her look like a SRR PS-4...

New York Central Niagara 

New York Central Hudson

DL&W N-3 class 4-6-2

DL&W  2-8-2

DL&W 4-8-4 (Pocono).

DL&W 'Worlds Fair' Pocono

Erie 2524, sent to help the Korean war effort