I'm reading elsewhere that the TE70-4s' better known as Popcicles are now scrap. At least 7031. This is a very sad moment. Here is the quote:
THAT MAKES ME SICK in a scrap yard in buttonwood next to the tracks that cp serves we were watiting for a train and i notest 3 boxcars that were sitting in downtown wilks-barre on the site of an old station and small yard for jersy central or D&H they could at least of reastored them they were sitting not harming anyone and all of a sudden here comes a flat bed truck and a crane coming to get it and they are sitting there with no detail old perfict condition with no trucks the surviving cars there in the yard are 4 refrigarator cars and 2 of them are wooden 2 standard 6-axel coaches 1 caboose i think and a streamlined diner that is still numberd 3332 any clue what railroad that car belonged to those box cars never had a chance
Is this the one that was behind some building in San Francisco? If I recall right, it was close to One Market street.
These are the orange and red repowered GE units that sat behind the GE plant in Oakland. A real shame if at least one does not get saved.
I must have read the story wrong. I swear it said one of them was near One Market. So they were all kept together?
Yes. They had been repowered with Sulzer marine engines. The fella who bought them wanted to put the engines in tugboats or such. Deal fell through and they sat ever since. He refused to donate them to a museum. (They are the only 4 like them.) Appearently he was willing to sell but wanted a rediculous amount. Personnally I was hoping he'd drop dead before he scrapped them and then maybe we'd have a better shot at preserving them.
I've seen this happen before. Where precious Fairbanks-Morse units were gutted for their power plants. Selling at a price less than offered for them intact! Sickening! Boxcab E50
campp They are U25B's rebuilt with a Sulzer 12 cylinder prime mover. The paint scheme is what gave them the name "popsicle"
as a side note, you may have seen Bachmann N locomotives painted in the popsicle scheme that should have never had it. The popsicle's were the only locomotives to wear this scheme, which was a MK variation of the Daylight paint scheme.
They look fruity fresh, like a juice pop on a warm summer afternoon. That is really too bad if they are getting scrapped. There are all sorts of railfans that, i am sure, would love to be able to rescue one. I hate seeing SP anything get scrapped. Adam
