Reply to "Burlington Zephyr 9903 Injun Joe (Mark Twain) Restoration"

Casey Jones2OGR Forum Member

Hot Water posted:
GVDobler posted:
Just curious. What would it cost to be operational
Many, many, many millions!
and could you run on any RR tracks?
Similar to steam locomotives, plus the massive liability insurance requirements, I doubt any class 1 railroad would allow it to operate.
Like the confederate Air Force restores and flys old military aircraft, could a group do that with a train? (I know they were forced to change the name to commemorative Air Force, but I'm not PC)
The big difference is, the Commemorative Air Force does NOT really need permission to fly their aircraft in the earth's atmosphere.

That's not quite true as I think they (CAF) were involved with moving a B-36 Peacemaker years ago. They wanted to move it from one airport to another under it's own power by flying and the government said NO! Civilians can not fly long range strategic bombers in US airspace. I guess that B-29's are the biggest.

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