The Bard of the High Iron does it again! Thank you, Dr. D, for sharing those tremendous memories! It must have been something to actually see and hear those exhausts cracking off the miles! Greatly appreciated! Thanks again for a most enjoyable read!
Thanks, Selector! You know, when one thinks about the “inventory” of restored steam, it seems like the absence of a representative of the two titans of the Northeastern US - New York Central and Pennsy - is a gaping hole.
We have 611 operational and maybe someday again 614 representing Super Power passenger service in the mid-Atlantic states, and 1309 and 734 representing pre-Super Power in that region. We have 4501 and 630 representing freight power from the south. We have 765 and 1225 representing Super Power freight hogs of the industrial Midwest-Pennylvania heartland (soon to be joined by 2100), and 261 representing dual service Super Power of the Upper Midwest and Grainger roads, along with 1003 representing the same pre-Super Power. We shall soon have 2926 representing dual service Super Power of the Transcontinental Southwest, and we have 3415 representing Great Plains passenger power (would love to see that doubleheading someday with 2926). We have 3751 and 4449 as additional representatives of “California-style” passenger service Super Power, and 700 as dual service Super Power of the upper Northwest. And of course we have 844 (hopefully soon) and 4014 and 3985 (eventually) representing mountain-climbing Super Power of the Rockies. And I am sure I am leaving some other great locomotives off this list.
But there is no NYC Mohawk or Pennsy M to represent those roads that so dominated the rail industry north of the Ohio River from Illinois to the Hudson River.
So it would seem if there ever is an effort to restore something different than what is already in our operational “collection” in the United States, apologies to the T1 Trust and their magnificent and audacious effort, but the NYC 3001 is most certainly a worthy candidate for that mantle.
Now, if I just hit that Powerball…
Thanks for the thorough inventory. Hopefully some of the same sort of realistic visionaries that restored those engines will find a way to rescue 3001 from its limbo and restore it to glory.
Here in 'Sconsin, we have long given up on reality. We hold on to a sense of humor . . .
Better not quit your day job.
I heard the name Chicago comes from an old Indian word, “chick-a-goo”, meaning “smelly river.” Is that true?
The way I heard the story, the original site at the mouth of the Chicago River was a swampy, boggy area where a lot of wild onions grew. The name is said to be a corruption of a Native American term meaning “onion place” or some similar meaning. I guess the connectioin between “onion” and “smelly” may be valid. As many are aware, large areas of the Chicago shoreline are actually landfill.
Tom
To borrow the title from one of Clint Eastwood’s early movies:
For a Few Dollars More
kgbw, got your Powerball ticket for tonight? Me too!
As Clint would say, “Do you feel lucky?”
Love that photo you posted, man that says it all!
Excellent advice, especially when persons from outside the state without a sense of humor make for a “hard room.”
Cheeseheads have no sense of humor.
Having been born in Chicago, I can see where a person whose Wisconsin experience is limited to the Mars Cheese Castle on I-94 reaches such a conclusion [pi]
Sounds like you have spent some time behind The Cheddar Curtain!
It is sort of like The Iron Curtain, but instead of pledging loyalty to the Politburo in Moscow, you have to root for the Packers, gosh darnit doncha know.
Bear down, Chicago Bears!
I probably know Wisconsin better than you, since you are in MADison, which is not part of the Dairy State, as any real Wisconsonian would tell you. [B]
I suppose I know Illinois, or at least Cook County, as well as anyone given that my parents migrated to Door County, which everyone knows is part of Greater Chicago [au]
I think of myself as maintaining “deep cover” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Chapman.
I haven’t drawn too much attention to myself for not hating the Bears, but I compensate for this by being vocal about the Vikings . . .
As to Door County, my wife was born in Evanston, and lived there until her father was transferred to Memphis (while she was in boarding school in Beaver Dam). One September, just before the vernal equinox, the family took a vacation near Ephraim. Going home, they raced an incoming storm, and for some time she thought the storm was the equinox, for people spoke of the coming equinox! In time, she learned better.
Is this thread hijacked?[^o)]
Maybe a bit, not that it matters. It stopped acomplishing anything a while back now.
Actually the New york Central management sold the 3001 to the Texas & Pacific RR who donated it as one of their 4-8-2s to the Texas State Fair in Dallas, in place of a 2-10-4 that was so badly vandalized that it had to be scrapped. Some years later Elkhart acquired it in a deal struck with Dallas for the swap of (of all things) a Pennsylvania GG-1 electric. Somehow the 2933 managed to escape scrapping and was given to the Museum of Transportation near St Louis. This and the 999 4-4-0 were the only steamers that the NYC itself saved.