If the Money and the Technology were in place, what Long-Scrapped Locomotive (s) would you recreate to fill in gaps of Not Preserved in Time Engines?
Is this a Good Idea? or is 'A Replica just a Replica!"
I would say it would be a toss up between a SP cab forward and a UP big boy.[8D]
And speaking of cab forwards… What would it take to make the one in Old Town Sacramento run again? Cosmeticly it’s a great looking loco.[8D]
Chad Thomas, sounds like a plan!!![8D]
BTW- You can call me Chad.[;)]
how about an NYC Hudson?
Personally it would be a British “Dean” Single from the late 19th century, one of the most beautiful engines ever built…
Why thank you, Chad. [:)]
There was a Dean Single replica built for display at the old Windsor railway station. It used an original tender found on a weedkiller train but was ortherwise a shell carried on the bogie and trailing wheels, with dummy driving wheels that were just clear of the track.
The display closed down and I think the station was incorporated in a shopping centre, but I think the loco replica was retained, but I’m not sure.
I would think that a New York Central streamlined Hudson would be my choice - now do I want a “Twentieth Century” or an “Empire State” loco (can I have both?)
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I would go for an SP AC9 articulated [8D].
If I won zillions in the lottery,I would be building a B&O EM-1.Then if I had any left I’d build a Cincinnatian trainset with a replica 5302 pulling it.
How about a Pennsy T-1, or one of Boston and Maine’s 4-8-2 Mountains, or a Western Maryland I-2 class 2-10-0?
If I had the money, time, and resourses I would would bring back the C&O Allegheny
2-6-6-6!!! Most Certainly one of my all time favorites.
This is a no-brainer. If time and money allowed, I’d buil either a replica 4-8-4 Northern or a 4-8-8-4 Big Boy. As you can obviously tell, I’m pretty partial to the heavy hualers of the UP.
I would bring back the GG1.
Given some backing, this could be a real business - building replicas of locomotives. It would accomplish many things.
First - we’d get to see locomotives in steam that many of us never saw.
Second - they would be built with state of the art materials and technologies. This is a double bonus since they would be inherently safer than a 100 year old original, and might allay some fears of insurers.
Third - A shop capable of manufacturing the parts necessary would also be able to support those orginal locomotives still in steam.
Fourth - it would allow us to retire and preserve some true treasures before something bad happens to them.
Given the emerging technology of the Green Goat, it’s possible that a booster could be built into a tender or “auxiliary tender” to help eliminate the need for a protection diesel in many cases.
Would railfans and the public accept a replica vs an original? I suspect that a virtual twin of any of the locomotives already mentioned would draw just as big a crowd. Preservationists might appreciate that we aren’t facing the possible destruction of an artifact of the steam age, all the while celebrating steam nonetheless.
Tickets going on sale for a ride behind an NYC Mohawk, built to blueprint. LIne forms to the right… Gee Whiz! You don’t have to push! We’ll run an extra section if we need to!
C&NW Class H or H1
Hear, hear!!
I’d bring a Niagara and a T1 back, put both through a series of tests, and then celebrate with the Central fans.
I have to agree with Sarah,this would be a “Great” locomotive to ride the rails.
But lets not forget some of C & Os other ones,such as :
Their G-7,G-9 class 2-8-0s with Vandy tenders,K-2 “Mikes”
the 2-10-4s,and the other H class;H1>H6 2-6-6-2s,H7s 2-8-8-2s.
Then there are ALWAYS the ones you could find around;
the 0-8-0s and the 0-10-0s
Here in Britain, building replica locos seems to be a growth industry. I think TRAINS has reported about the new LNER A1 Pacific being built ; it turns out some of the people involved with this are also building a replica of a North Eastern Railway G5 0-4-4T. The Swanage Railway are also building a replica of the British Rail “Clan” 4-6-2. Only 10 of these were built; an order for a further 15 including some for the Southern Region (why on earth the SR needed more pacifics when it already had more than it knew what to do with!). The Swanage Railway “Clan” will carry the name and number of the first one that was intended for use on the Southern ie #72010 “Hengist”.
Some time ago the Midland Railway Trust acquired a pair of bogies from a scrapped EM2 electric loco with the intention of using these to build a replica of the LMS Diesel loco #10000 (the first main line diesel loco to run in Britain) but nothing more has been heard of this project.
Were I to win the lottey, I think I’d buy a couple of old class 40 bogies (I think some still survive as snowploughs) and build a replica of the Southern Diesels which employed the same bogies and were the forerunners of the class 40’s. As for steam loco’s, I think a HIghland Railway (Scotland) “Castle” and “River” 4-6-0 would be nice as would a Stanier Turbomotive ( a steam turbine 4-6-2). Perhaps also a replica of the Great Western “Great Bear” Pacific - the first Pacific to run in Britain.
A Hudson would be sweet, and I would support the idea of a Niagara. For me, CPR #9000 2-10-4, as modified with its three-sectioned boiler, 1600psi transfer system, and booster.
Finally, a PRR J-1.
As it is, CPR 2816 Royal Hudson is well on its way to running excursions again next spring. I’ll settle for that…I guess.