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A similar situation existed years ago when the Northwestern Steel and Wire ex-GTW 0-8-0's were retired.

 

Everybody and their brother wanted one, but no one could come up with the money or manpower to claim their prize, except the Illinois Railway Museum.  The best of them came to the museum property and the remaining ones sat on a siding in Sterling, IL, with title eventually going to IRM.

 

As I recall, there was still some interest in a couple of them, but again, no one could muster the resources needed to rescue one.

 

I forget how many years they sat in Sterling, but eventually usable parts were removed and the locomotives scrapped on the siding.

 

The good news was that some of the scrap money helped rescue CB&Q 2-8-2 4963 from being scrapped and moved to the museum.

 

Rusty

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