current museum cost is about $75 per foot of track for any piece of equipment
That is over and above the cost of movement, which right now is a serious issue.
If a piece was to be accepted by the museum, it would have to be essentially at
no cost to the museum to acquire it or move it.
current budget constraints are due in par to the economy in general, and partly
due to the expense of the new barn going up this summer.
we are facing a cost of serious dollars just to get the ballast for the tracks
in the new barn, much less purchase any equipment.
If you are interested in arranging such a move, feel free to contact Bob or me
and we can help you proceed on the inside.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Webber
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Preservation of Q Diesels
Phil will likely provide the specifics, but for the IRM, you not only
purchase the loco, get it there (i.e. pay for transport), then you
have $x per running foot of the locomotive.
The Western Class Ones have been getting less and less behind the
movement, and there are no more free lunches (when it comes to moving
it by rail), even for established and prior customers.
This all being said, you also have to have someone present the
acquisition to the board - preferably with ducks all lined up (in
terms of financing).
Right now, there is a glut of locomotives, especially of the SD45
variety. But also other marqs are almost over represented.
I would love to see another Chinese Red or Blackbird there. I would
love even more to have a certain Havelock baggage car there and a
certain HW baggage car there (which my understanding the IRM owns the
latter, and may the former). But they are 900+ miles away, and the
baggage is on plain bearing trucks.
At 06:44 PM 8/20/2008, Tom Mack wrote:
>It recently came to my attention there are three ex-CB&Q U28B's left,
>all at TTI in Kentucky. Only 1 U28B has been preserved, and ex-L&N
>unit that is currently at the Kentucky Railroad Museum. To my
>understanding, the TTI units are the last U28B's around outside the
>L&N unit.
>
>It would be a shame if we lost all of these ex-Q U28B's, not just from
>their CB&Q significance, but also from their significance as examples
>of GE locomotive history. It seems at least one could be saved,
>possibly to the IRM. Does anyone know the requirements to get a
>locomotive saved to the IRM? My understanding is it needs more than
>just a purchase, it needs a sponsor of some sort to make sure it has
>space allocated, etc. Does anyone know how this works (a la the Q SD24)?
>
>Does anyone have suggestions on how one goes about saving a
>locomotive? I would be willing to contact TTI, but it seems to me we
>would definitely need to have a home lined up first. I know at one
>time the Galesburg Museum was hoping to get an ex-Q unit they could
>paint up for display (they were talking about a GP30). Although it
>would be nice to have the unit somewhere it could run, the main thing
>is making sure we don't wake up one day very soon to find that all the
>U28B's sans one are gone, and especially one that could go back into
>Chinese Red.
>
>Please let me know your suggestions or whatever experience you might
>have. Perhaps we might even solicit the help of the BN fans out there
>since the U28B did end up in BN green.
>
>Tom Mack
>Cincinnati, OH
>
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