Is there any update on the status of NKP 190? It’s stored at the same place as SP 4449, right? Is it operational yet, PTC issues, or what is going on with it? Haven’t heard anything since 2017.
If you go to the T1 Trust open house in early March you can ask Doyle all the questions you want about it, and get better answers than anyone here is likely to have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erdozXTWrXw
Skip to 4:50 for a short interview with Mr. McCormack himself.
If the video won’t play for some reason, at 6:58 he says “I got three more connections to make in there with the diode bank and the electrical system will be all complete and then we can take it back out back and start it up again and see if it’ll actually move under its own power”.
A wrecked ex-BC Rail MLW M420B provided the 12-251 diesel engine and a number of other large, important parts.
The trucks came from one of three ex-Pennsylvania Railroad FM Erie-Built B-units which had been purchased by Canadian Pacific, and were then gutted and converted into a rail welding plant. I believe the trucks from all three units were saved, but one pair was badly damaged and ended up being scrapped.
If you can’t make March, he will be at the Mad River and Nickel Plate Railroad Museum in mid May: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=kfejbcdab&oeidk=a07egw044gg8c999809
Wow! That’s fantastic! Great to hear that it’s finally almost done. Maybe I’ll get to go and see it run in Oregon sometime soon.
Considering what a piece of wreckage that thing was when Doyle got his hands on it what he’s accomplished is a downright miracle.
A great achievement, but not as much a ‘miracle’ as this:
If something was once made by man, it can be remade…all it takes is time and money - in mass quantities.
OK, that thing’s such a horror I have no idea what it is, aside from the obvious fact it’s an old steam engine. The General perhaps? The Texas ?
I’m probably wrong, but I think it’s that steam locomotive that was dug up in New Zealand a few decades ago after many years of being used as rip-rap on a river bank, that eventually was restored to operation.
Leo is quite right. New Zealand K88 Washington. Thrown in a river in the late '20s, and retrieved in the early Seventies as very famously covered by Trains Magazine. (Strange that I remember the issue being in that time period, and not many years later in the '80s as is apparently the actual restoration timeline…)
If you think this is grand, there are two more from similar ‘sources’, one running.
To put things in some perspective, these came out of the Rogers Works in Paterson and are only about a decade and a half younger than the Hunley.
I followed the link to the K88 Washington, and that is an incredible restoration, although I’m not surprised a new boiler was called for.
Not to denegrate what the Kiwi’s accomplished by any means, but I still think Doyle’s faced a much harder uphill climb, considering the much more sophisticated technology involved in an Alco PA compared to a 19th Century steam engine.
You know, there was a New York and Hackensack Railroad 4-2-0 that went off a bridge in the Hackensack Meadows just about where HX Draw is today back in the 1850’s and was never recovered. Supposedly it’s still there. Makes you think, doesn’t it? Although what it looks like after 160 years in a salt marsh is anyone’s guess.
Ask and ye shall receive! [:D] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280832/New-Jerseys-deep-sea-train-graveyard-Locomotives-lost-1850s-preserved-90-feet-water.html
There are two of them.
Yes, I know! Right now, the question is what to do with them. They’re still sitting 90 feet down while those interested are trying to figure it out.
That’s one way to cheat the scrappers.
Here’s the whole story from the New Jersey Museum Of Transportation.
Do you believe the size of those barnacles on the boiler!!
They must be eatin’ good!
Isn’t that a place where they put gangsters wearing “concrete galoshes,” as Scotty from Star Trek would say?
Not that far offshore. The East River was good enough for the New York mob, the Passaic for New Jersey. Chicago I’m not sure. [:-^]
The Chicago outfit tended to stuff their victims in car trunks.
Maybe Jimmy Hoffa is in the boiler of that engine.