Anyone keen to buy Delaware Coast Line's Alco RS36?

This loco started life rebuilt by Alco from Atlantic & Danville RS2 102 in October 1962 into an RS36 for N&W subsidiary Norfolk, Franklin & Danville RR after N&W acquired the A&D from SR. At some point the loco was supposedly acquired by the Tidewater Chapter NRHS, but later sold off to the Delaware Coast Line RR.

Asking $59,500 but has "make offer." Railroad it's on changes hands at end of year. Shipment via Delmarva Central and NS or alternate modes.

www.sterlingrail.com/classifieds/classi ... p?id=19426

(I have no financial interest in this offering, only sharing for the sake of potential preservationists and to avoid the "We only have one week!" panic we see too often.)

Locomotive has been sold.

At the serious risk of sounding contrarian for contrary's sake:

We just had a kerfuffle erupt here a week or so ago where two reefers were threatened with scrapping because someone said immediately after the first notice "the cars have been spoken for" and thus eliminated active interest among possible other preservationists for a year or so.

Did YOU just acquire it?

If not, can you cite who supposedly is getting it, and its intended long-term plans?

I went to the Gaithersburg railroad collector show last weekend and left Sunday afternoon for the Delaware Coast Line Railroad.

I spent Monday and part of Tuesday there.

The RS36 was in the shop in primer paint. The DCLR is painting it before it is shipped to the new owner.
I think some people missed out here. While the locomotive needs some engine work, it was sitting on an almost new set of wheels. The old paint made it look worse then it is, as it's body was in very good condition.
I did not see it run, but they said the new owner ran it and that it had a couple of cylinders that need some work.

I would prefer not to say who purchased it, how it is being painted or where it is going, let the new owner do that.

It is safe to say it will live on and run for a number of years.

Looks like it was for a pretty good price too.

And the winner is...

The Southern New England Railroad in CT.

Whoever that is:

1) is reviving a historic name for a RR that was never completed; and

2) appears to have no online or business existence yet.

I can say that I'm not the only one asking who this is--I've had a couple of queries about this supposed new owner over the weekend........

DCLR president Dan Herholdt identified that organization as the buyer. In time we'll probably find out more about it.

Ironically, the Southern New England Railroad (Grand Trunk extension from Palmer Mass to Providence, RI aka the Titanic Railroad) was never going to operate in Connecticut - it's charter was blocked there by the legislators who were sympathetic to the New Haven Railroad's virtual monopoly of everything south of the Boston and Albany in CT, RI and Mass.

Cross-linking this post on RR.net:
http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=126&t=168929

It is my understanding that it will become leased power. To whom it will be leased to by the current owner, I’ve no idea.

Need I add, I hope they're wary of icebergs on the rails.
The "Titanic" Railroad, indeed.

Back in the 1990s, while employed by QARR, I ran this engine one day. (If I'm not getting my engines confused!). It was "out of service" and DCLR then President Mike Herholdt (father of current president Dan Herholdt) wanted to get it running. He hired a retired ALCO mechanic George Hockaday to come work on it. We had it running (kinda.......) and my instructions were to couple to the train (about 15-20 loaded coal hoppers from Conrail, headed to Indian River power plant) and then keep it in "Run 8 and control your speed with the train brake" while running about 15-20mph to load the engine. Lots of smoke and weird smells galore while these men were on the running boards with hood doors open, and ducking in and out of the electrical cabinet with tools and testers. Basically, everything you're taught not to do was being done. After a while, we put the train back and took the engine to the shop. I remember leaving in my truck and seeing smoke still coming out of the hood. I don't remember exactly what was done to it after that day.

A new video of this engine cropped up on Facebook last night. Still inside the enginehouse, but looks largely completed. Even looks like it has faux Alco builder's plates on it. I checked the CSX trace this morning and its listed as "waybill reported". Unit carries SNEX reporting marks. Interestingly an answer to a question about it moving was "when its paid for"!

Dave

Link?