ARR F7A free to a good home!
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cascaderailroad
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I often thought about how exactly they formed the rounded nose on such locomotives ?
This one is beyond restoration, even if it was retrofitted into a summer mobile home ... sides missing, roof missing ... and everything else
This one is beyond restoration, even if it was retrofitted into a summer mobile home ... sides missing, roof missing ... and everything else
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hauntedclipp
copper-crowned
It could probably be turned into a nice static display in a museum or something, if wheels are found for it and the siding and roof are patched up. The most we could hope for in the case of returning it to the rails would be to make it into an NPCU, but that would still require loads of work.
MeowRailroad
CKRail
It's a shame the owner didn't try to get rid of it before it got this bad.
generalman
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Would make a heck of a playhouse for some kids though... Wouldn't be as hard for them to imagine they were driving a train! 
cascaderailroad
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Oh drop the sentimental scrap ... Its just another a rusted hulk of a junk train ... millions of locos, and trolleys worldwide were cut up for scrap, or purposely burnt, in a heatbeat ... some were still in running condition ... this one is completely gutted ... nothing left inside.
It didn't just rust away ... It was cut to pieces of scrap with torch's
One PRR steamer was torched because it kept derailing, and it still had fresh paint on it, and only had a hundred miles under it's belt
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MeowRailroad
CKRail
Some of the PRR steamers at RRMofPA are rusty and not in a good condition. They are outside and are only going to get worse, so lets go and cut them up so we don't have to later! I'll bring lunches, you bring the equipment? What lunch meats do you like?
If we don't have sentimentality, nothing would ever be preserved. Two of the RDG T-1's were saved because the scrapper decided not to cut them up, but stored them instead. None are operating, but we have a bigger chance of restoring one, because more were saved.
If we don't have sentimentality, nothing would ever be preserved. Two of the RDG T-1's were saved because the scrapper decided not to cut them up, but stored them instead. None are operating, but we have a bigger chance of restoring one, because more were saved.
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cascaderailroad
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Some things are just rotted beyond repair ... the belpaire firebox on the K4 #1361 was deemed by State inspectors, as being faulty, and faulty in design, and could explode, as many steam boilers can, and do explode. Due to the Altoona RR Mem Museum botching the job, and squandering all the money given to them, the State see's the #1361 as a "money pit"
MeowRailroad
CKRail
I know some things are a waste of money, but that could have been prevented by repairing them previously. If the F7A had been worked on before this, it could have been saved. Also, why does it seem like no one is interested in restoring the other K4, besides from cost? Everyone is wanting to restore 1361 but they can't. Strasburg has a very good shop, maybe if they got it to operating, RRMofPA could let Strasburg use it to pay for the repairs. At least they are building a new roundhouse so that the outdoor engines will be protected.
hauntedclipp
copper-crowned
Strasburg's already strapped for their current restoration LIRR #39, which they'll operate. Even that project needs another $800,000 or so to complete. Strasburg does indeed have a very good shop, but they're not going to restore a locomotive for free.
MeowRailroad
CKRail
That is true, one of their current locomotives was owned by someone and they were fixing it, but they couldn't pay for it so Strasburg got it. I was thinking about this and it was more hypothetical.