SHORT VIDEO OF THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD MUSEUM

Wot's a GG-1 doing  in the NYC Museum?

Great video Alex thanks for sharing!

I sure wish the would get that Mohawk running again! That would be awesome!

Mike R

Hi Mike, 

 

Thanks, I agree that would be great to get it going again

 

Alex

Great video Alex! Seems like you were the only one there?

Alex nice vidio

 I think it is a shame the mohawk sits there rusting away.

that a great pice of history.

You would think that some one trie to set up funding to rebuild it.

So, does anyone know, where this hallowed place is?  New York, Ohio, maybe?

 

Richie

Believe it or not,,,,,Elkhart, Indiana!

The museum is in Elkhart, IN, right across the tracks from the Amtrak station. One can get a good look at it from the Capitol Limited or Lake Shore Limited. This photo was taken from the window of the train.

 

 

I remember seeing highway signs on I-80 for this museum. Thanks for posting the video Alex.

While it's been awhile, I remember two hobby shops in the Elkhart area that had pretty good O selections. I can't remember the names though.

 

The museum is a really great place to spend time snooping around. I recall there is or was an old wooded NYC caboose that looks just like the prewar Lionel scale caboose that Lionel and MTH have remade.

 

Sam

Very nice video Alex.

 

Here's the Museum's Website == http://www.elkhartindiana.org/department/?fDD=54-0

 

The GG-1 is painted in Penn Central livery.  I guess that's the link. A bit of a stretch if you ask me but I'm not complaining if they're displaying any locomotives.

Nice video Alex, that walk thru the engine room of the E unit brought back memories for me.

Not long after I moved into engine service on the Missouri Pacific, 1976, I was called as a fireman on Amtrak a number of times, which worked from St. Louis to  Sedalia, MO back then. I vividly remember having to walk back to the steam boiler in the back of the E8 or 9's locomotives to blow it down. It is quite the trek walking past two hammering  diesels in notch 8 rocking and rolling down the tracks. It was a very hot environment and it was common in the summer that one of the engines would overheat and shut down. So, once again, back into the engine room to see if it would fire up and idle a bit before putting it back on line.

Those engines in the video were pretty clean, it action, they were a oily mess!

Again, thanks for the memories.

 

Dan