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Long Island 4-6-0 to be restored to service
That’s Awesome!
Excellent news! After so many years and the 1361 debacle it will be great to see a Belpaire boilered Juniata product back under steam.
GREAT NEWS !!! A real honest to goodness operating Pennsy G5 !!!
Oh, if only it could be arranged to have it sent to Long Island after restoration…when was the last steam excursion IN NYC?
Well this is great, AND the thing is it’ll have a place to run. The LIRR has a “no steam” policy that’s not going to change in the forseeable future. Nothing worse than being “all dressed up with nowhere to go”.
Am I missing something here? I was part of a group in the seventies that was trying to get 39 running again on Long Island by 1976! And now it’s going to spend more than 50 years in Pennsylvania?? I understand that she was built in Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania but she went to the Long Island where not only she severed honorably, but she closed out steam service with her sister 35. She could have provided summer trips out to the Island. But it looks like that it’s not going to happen. Too bad.
When i worked at Grumnan in the 80’s rumors of G-Jobs on parts for 39 went around. Bearings and wheels come to mind. I think that NO 39 can replace No 90 and be a more apocopate locomotive on the Road to Paradise. I would go to see that now i am closer.
I have to agree with the other comments posted… strasburgh too sedate of an environment to run that loco. Doesn’t pennsy have enough attractions? Why can’t us islanders have a steam attraction? Grateful she will be restored but 50 years really? How about a clause or two permitting it to visit long island or even nj to Middletown for a run or two??
Of course, if and when this old LIRR steamer is operating again, it will probably be a lot more reliable then today’s politician built DE and DM junker fleet currently in use between breakdowns at LIRR!
Good for the Strasburg RR!
Being a PRR buff, and working for the PRR 1960-63 this is great news, as B-4 #643 at Williams Grove is the only operating PRR steam currently.
Ed K. Laurel Run, PA
Being a PRR buff, and working for the PRR 1960-63 this is great news, as B-4 #643 at Williams Grove is the only operating PRR steam currently.
Ed K. Laurel Run, PA
Strasburg is a fitting place for a G5 to operate as they will do the restoration right and the engine will be right at home with all its pennsy relatives across the street. It leaves one to wonder though if that spells the retirement of the faithful 31 that has been there since the tourist business began and what of the poor old CP 972 that has been waiting so patiently for the chance at life again…
Historic Preservation:
TRAINS’ Preservation Award NRHS Heritage Grant Program
Tom E. Dailey Foundation
Charity Search Engines
Grocery Stores Fundraisers
It’s wonderful that the G5 will be restored and sent to a friendly home, but it would sure be nice if there were a place where the world’s gutsiest 10-wheeler could occasionally get out and kick up its heels. The Strasburg environment is just too sedate for that.
That’s part of the Long Island, Can’t Do It Here attitude. Strassburg’s nice, but this loco needs to run here on Long Island. Since it won’t, extremely few Long Islanders will ever see it run.