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Reply to "Full size Switcher and old flatcars for sale via Auction - open house today, auction Friday and Sat"

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Hot Water posted:
 
Another thought, although the trucks are equipped with roller bearings, those old switchers did NOT have alignment controlled draft gear/couplers, thus big railroads will generally not move such a unit in-train. Any potential buyer will probably have to truck it to its new home. 

Understand your point about the lack of alignment control couplers. However this switcher still can be transported via rail if loaded onto a suitable flatcar. That's how the illinois Railway Museum moved a 1930-built Westinghouse diesel from Minneapolis, MN to Union, IL last summer - see picture below of same at arrival at UP/IRM interchange. Still need cranes and blocking ( <<< usually where most of the transport money goes) but depending upon arrangements / distance of movement rail may be cost competitive with a truck move.

That is an acceptable way for IRM to have many of their rail equipment moved into their large museum, especially since they have a good rail connection as well as their own trains to lift the item off the flat car. For the purchase of the switcher being discussed above, it will be potentially much cheaper to move the locomotive by highway truck, since the cost of cranes will be required to both load AND unload the locomotive, not to mention the charges involved with the railroad/railroads involved in moving the flat car (assuming the potential buyer does have a good rail connection).

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