Bill,
I saw the MTZ at My Pleasant in 1967 and it had the engine in it but it was in
terrible shape.
Ken Martin
> On Apr 14, 2021, at 9:45 PM, William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Charlie,
>
> All of the first eight shovel nose Zephyrs had 201/ 201A engines in them up
> to the end of their service. No. 9900 had at least two different engine
> during its operation. Its original 201 was removed at some point in time and
> returned to EMD. The story is in the Bulletin, but as I recall, it was
> installed in a switcher locomotive. When that locomotive was traded in years
> later, someone was checking the serial number and realized that it was the
> original 9900 engine. Eventually, it was cosmetically restored and donated to
> the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC. Considering the damage when PZ
> encountered the mikado at Hamburg, IA, it may have had more than two
> different 201s.
>
> I am aware of no evidence that any of the other units were ever modified with
> a different engine other than a 201. It is, however, possible that the
> engines were changed around between units as they were overhauled at West
> Burlington. One question that I have concerns the Mark Twain Zephyr. Several
> articles that I have read indicate that the RR removed the engine before
> selling the train to the first private owner. However, sometime in the late
> 1960s or early 1970s, I saw the MTZ at the Threshermen’s park in Mt.
> Pleasant, IA.I would swear that, at that time, both the engine and the
> generator were still in the power car. I thought that I had a photo of it,
> but I haven’t found it so far. Other than scrap value, I am not sure why the
> RR would want to remove an obsolete engine from the locomotive.
>
> It will be interesting to see how the Wisconsin Great Northern installs the
> 6-567C engine into the carbody of the MTZ. My recollection is that the
> original 201A was an in line six. The 6-567C engine from the SW600 is a
> standard configuration V-6. There wasn’t much room in the Zephyr carbodies
> for the original engine, let alone a V type engine.
>
> Bill Barber
> Gravois Mills, MO
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