[CBQ] Re:Winton Engines

[William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>]

Andrew,

As someone else mentioned, parts is the big issue. Neither EMD nor anyone else has parts for a 201A since maybe the mid 1950's or earlier. Compared to the 567 and later models, the number of 201A's built was far less. Here is a link to an article that Preston Cook wrote that appeared in UtahRails.net.

utahrails.net/loconotes/pcook-winton.php

It provides a fine history of the 201A engine and the reasons why it would be very difficult to restore one. I am surprised the the FDNY fireboat operated as late as it did. They must have had an extensive warehouse of parts. I suspect that in addition to being obsolete by today's standards, they were also running out of parts to maintain the engines. I hope that they preserved both the fireboat and the engines in it.

Bill Barber

Gravois Mills, MO

On Dec 11, 2011, at 2:23 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Winton Engines

Posted by: "ANDREW KOETZ" andrewkoetz@gmail.com   andrewkoetz

Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:12 pm (PST)

Just thinking out loud here. What would it cost to get one of those Winton
engines re-built, or both of them possibly? Or hasn't the Cali State RR
Museum ever thought about that.

Preston Cook, the ranking expert on Winton has an excellent note on the
Winton engines at:
http://utahrails.**net/loconotes/**pcook-winton.**php.<http://utahrails.net/loconotes/pcook-winton.php.>
It
was he who personally warned me of the absence of any operable engines from
which to record. A minor addendum to his note is that there are two other
existing 201 Winton engines, the 12 cylinder pair removed from the A unit
of the first CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO E-2 A-B-B set. They reside in the
collections of the California State Railroad Museum.

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