Just saw an interesting article in the Arts section of the February 5th New York Times about a proposed sculpture by Jeff Koons of a steam locomotive dangling from a crane. It is going to be installed in Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Should be interesting to see this sculpute in reality. It is supposed to 161 feet tall and a replica of a 1940’s engine. There was a picture with the article but I can’t seem to find any pictures of it on the internet.
Heres a link with a pic on how it might look.
I don’t know how to make it clickable so someone please quote this
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Looks to me like a ATSF 2900 class 4-8-4 without the tender. Supposedly it was the heaviest non-articulated steam engine ever built. The tender was huge also. Several 2900s have been preserved.
In the article he stated that it would not be a real steam engine locomotive.
How convincing of a replica will he build?
Andrew Falconer
When the gallery loses interest, we could end up with another 2900 to preserve somewhere!
I suspect the model was a Bachmann 3760.
M636C
Wow. I wonder who the “lucky” civil engineering firm will be. Outside of the wind factor, it’s in an earth quake zone. Can you imagine the permitting process? Can you imagine being the hapless maintenance man who is told, it’s time for preventive maintenance…? Alot of moving parts… There was a kid oriented facility on the East Coast that used the front end of an Alco FA…which I thought was neat. Another railroad oriented place is in Lake County, Illinois called Caboose Park, which I think is in Lake Villa…they have a restored wooden Soo Line caboose that kids can play in…lucky kids.