From what I've heard and read, old fashioned capitalism might save quite a few of them. With the popularity of Halloween and Christmas themed train rides, excursion railroads can't rent enough of them. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk
Got to spend a bit of time chasing trains from Jefferson to Boone, IA and back last week. Caught this coal drag a couple of times. Here's the first time at the west end of Jefferson, The second sighting was of it sitting on the new Kate Shelley trestle, Then lastly, I caught it eastbound through Boone. Turns out it was sitting on the trestle for a maintenance window on Boone's west end.
I stayed in the local area for this one. This is Beaconsfield station, on the CP main (also used by commuter trains) on Montreal's West Island, another nicely preserved example: I thought, wouldn't it be nice if a train came by? Of course, CN obliged with a couple of GE units, 3027 and 2928, pulling a stacker on its own tracks on the other side of CP's right of way: It was invigorating to watch, hear and feel the rumbling of the train as it went by. I was grinning from ear to ear. Mike is very, very happy.
You got it right - around here we can get a lot of snow, and a roof like that is just the thing for mini-avalanches dumping on unsuspecting people waiting for the next commuter train. Keeps the lawyers away too!
From October 1985 at a locomotive rebuilder at Cornelia, GA, E-8A SOU 6901 awaits. She resides today, in full operating condition, at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, GA.
@Hardcoaler, yes she does! Went there a long while back. She looked sharp! I climbed up the ladder. I saw someone looking at me. I climbed down the ladder. Foiled again!
On June 10, 1995, the Gulf Coast Chapter of the NRHS sponsored an excursion of the UP 3985 between Houston and Bryan-College Station. They stopped to unload passengers for the first photo runby spotting the first few cars in a cut. The bank was loaded with poison ivy so I stayed at the edge of the ballast. It was a little too close for my liking but I would rather brave the blast of a thundering steam locomotive passing at speed a few yards away than acquire a raging case of poison ivy. Some folks braved the poison ivy. On the way home they stopped next to an large field so I was able to stand back a ways. Here the train is backing up after unloading the photographers.
Finding run-by sites must be tough. Here's one at Spruce Run (Hampton), NJ on 10/10/1982 where someone should have bush hogged the area (it was just as overgrown down where the crowd was). New Jersey Transit E-8 4267 is former PRR 5767.
