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| Author: | Jdelhaye [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | IRM acquires A-B-A set of ALCOs |
The Illinois Railway Museum has just announced the acquisition of three more historic Diesels, Union Pacific ALCO C-855's 60, 60B, and 61. Rumored to have been scrapped in 1972, the locomotives were instead purchased and hidden inside a Council Bluffs, Iowa cold storage warehouse by a wealthy fan. Having recently been overhauled, the trio will be entering service at IRM later this spring.  Jeff |
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| Author: | robertmacdowell [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IRM acquires A-B-A set of ALCOs |
Darn it! IRM always gets all the good stuff. |
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| Author: | Howard P. [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IRM acquires A-B-A set of ALCOs |
Especially anything big and yellow, with "UNION PACIFIC" on the side..... Good thing your mainline is rather straight. If it wasn't, these beasts would make it so.... Will you guys have to buy another corn field to make room?? Howard P. Envious, CT |
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| Author: | Mark Jordan [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IRM acquires A-B-A set of ALCOs |
As I understand it, these units were originally headed to Cass. However, the management there decided that although they had the required power, they ultimately would not prove successful on the Bald Knob run. Mark |
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| Author: | wsflco [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IRM acquires A-B-A set of ALCOs |
Too bad delivery will be delayed until they can retrofit the "alignment" couplers. Chris |
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| Author: | Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IRM acquires A-B-A set of ALCOs |
The bad news: Thanks to these locos and their fuel appetite, the fare for IRM demonstration excursions will be $37.50 per person in 2009. |
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| Author: | car57 [ Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IRM acquires A-B-A set of ALCOs |
Oh yeah this is the same guy that stored the coal turbine in his garden shed. April again mike |
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| Author: | Jdelhaye [ Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IRM acquires A-B-A set of ALCOs |
Well, if I was gonna tell a "fish story", I figured it may as well be a real "whale" of a story.... ...And yes, we IRM people do love our big, yellow, UP "2-headed calves". Jeff (Trivia question: Where did I quote the "2-headed calf" remark from?) |
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| Author: | Howard P. [ Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IRM acquires A-B-A set of ALCOs |
Oh, geez, that's a real easy one. From the "Aarne-Gram", of course. Which is much-missed, at least here in New England. Howard P. Droll, CT |
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| Author: | k5ahudson [ Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IRM acquires A-B-A set of ALCOs |
Who got the New York Central Hudson that was stashed away in the same warehouse? |
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| Author: | car57 [ Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: IRM acquires A-B-A set of ALCOs |
The same guy that found the series 1 and 2 turbines and the other 3 UP 4-12-2's, in the understairs cupboard. |
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