I stopped by the Oregon Rail Heritage center on Friday. I was hoping to get one last look Doyle's Nickel Plate RR PA before it went to its new owners. I was too late, it left Wednesday morning. They thought it was in Pasco, WA on Friday. So anyone along the BNSF (I assume) in the north, keep an eye out for it.
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@cbojanower posted:I stopped by the Oregon Rail Heritage center on Friday. I was hoping to get one last look Doyle's Nickel Plate RR PA before it went to its new owners. I was too late, it left Wednesday morning. They thought it was in Pasco, WA on Friday. So anyone along the BNSF (I assume) in the north, keep an eye out for it.
She is still in the BNSF freight yard in Vancouver Wash., and might depart tomorrow, the 23, for Pasco, Wash.
Who bought it?
@SantaFeJim posted:Who bought it?
Genesee Valley Transportation in Scranton, PA. Same folks who operate the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad. Apparently they plan to complete the restoration to operation begun by Doyle.
Curt
The Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad's motive power roster is almost entirely Alco. They have the know-how and expertise to get it running and keep it running. That will be a good home for it.
Since it's painted in NKP livery, it would have been nice if it went to the Fort Wayne RR Historical Society, owners of Nickel Plate Road steamer 765, but it didn't happen that way. 
Wow!!! As a resident of NE Pennsylvania, I look forward to seeing the restored engine on a run in the neighborhood. Would it be heresy to hope it’s redone to it’s D&H paint scheme???
@Apples55 posted:Wow!!! As a resident of NE Pennsylvania, I look forward to seeing the restored engine on a run in the neighborhood. Would it be heresy to hope it’s redone to it’s D&H paint scheme???
Yes. Especially since it was originally a Santa Fe unit.
If I am not mistaken one is being worked on at the RR Museum in Frisco Tx. This will be Santa Fe scheme.
@SantaFeJim posted:If I am not mistaken one is being worked on at the RR Museum in Frisco Tx. This will be Santa Fe scheme.
Jim;
Apparently, this PA will be worked on by Genesee Valley Transportation in Scranton. I found the article below online. Should be an interesting project. While I’d love to see it in D&H (a personal favorite), I could see the original Santa Fe, and could understand leaving the current NKP livery - from a photo in the article, it looks like Mr. McCormack did a beautiful cosmetic restoration of the shell. Hopefully the local media covers when the engine arrives in Scranton.
@Apples55 posted:Wow!!! As a resident of NE Pennsylvania, I look forward to seeing the restored engine on a run in the neighborhood. Would it be heresy to hope it’s redone to it’s D&H paint scheme???
Yes.
Doyle McCormick (who was formerly a Nickel Plate Engineer and comes from a Nickel Plate family) put his money and his sweat into restoring the PA and he decided to paint it to memorialize that fine railroad of years past. We are thankful to him, because, due to his knowledge and hard work, there is an Alco PA unit that will run on a main line railroad again before long.
I'm in my 77th year, and the last time I saw an active PA was in 1968. I was 22 then, and I never thought I would see another one run during my lifetime. Nickel Plate will be just fine.
I'm with Rich and Tom. The experts at GVT are best equipped to get this ALCo running again if possible.
And look at it this way. There were instances of NKP equipment forwarded on the DLW tracks the PA would be running on.
Anybody remember this D&H PA operation... And the D&H PA's also ran on the EL in commuter service to Hoboken, NJ in early 1970's...and I actually saw this 1 passenger train at West End tower, Jersey City, NJ as I passed it while riding an ex-DL&W MU train west!
From Railfan & Railroad magazine... The Albany–Montreal route was not included in the initial Amtrak system, and so the Laurentian and Montreal Limited made their last runs in April 1971, and the PAs were stored. By this time, D&H and Erie Lackawanna were under common ownership of Dereco, a Norfolk & Western holding company. A set of PAs was sent to EL in Hoboken to test out in commuter service, but the set made only one trip before being returned to Colonie.
Walter
Didn't see them in NJ, but did at Colonie. Pictures taken by poster.
Saw them on a Fan Trip in May 1974. Pictures taken by poster.
Anyway to track its run to PA? I'm guessing it will likely run through Alliance Ohio.
@jini5 posted:Anyway to track its run to PA? I'm guessing it will likely run through Alliance Ohio.
Try going to the Genesee Valley Transportation website, as they might be providing up-dates.
Lot's of cameras along the way from Washington to PA. , on the VRF site on Youtube. Horseshoe Curve being the most notable that it may pass.
Whatever scheme it winds up in is fine as long as it's being preserved.
Bob
@GG1admirer posted:Saw them on a Fan Trip in May 1974.
Love that shot. That looks like the Starrucca viaduct in the background. If so, regrettably I believe that the D&H tracks are long gone. But maybe the restored PA can run over the old Erie trackage over the viaduct.
I saw these D. and H diesels back in the 70's when my wife and I would go to Erie.
@Hot Water posted:Try going to the Genesee Valley Transportation website, as they might be providing up-dates.
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