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SD40-2, caboose placed at Pomona museum
I am wondering why the boxcar was not restored to the original paint scheme.
Would be way cool if the box car could have been painted. Or add more graffiti to this box car and add another box car factory fresh!
Youd’a thunk’ UP would have at least painted the boxcar!!
I’m glad they let go of Big Boy, but it seems they could have legitimately gotten a lot more in the swap.
I notice that the news item mentioned the ex-Rock Island heritage of the caboose, but omitted that the SD-40 is, as I understand, ex-MoPac. Being a MoPac fan, I notice that this road’s ancestry is often not mentioned when something occurs regarding its former tracks and/or equipment. It seems that some fallen flags roads get better “press” than others! And, I add my “second” to those calling for restoration of these pieces of equipment to their original paint schemes. Wouldn’t a “screaming eagle” look good on the side of the 3105?
As a Rock Island fan, I would also like to see the pieces in their original paint schemes. However, this equipment also saw service in UP colors, and considering the location of the museum, I understand if they would want to keep the UP colors. If someone had restored one of the E units the Rock bought from the UP in Rock Island colors, I wouldn’t want them repainted into the original UP colors.
“RailGiants” traded away a true giant of the rails in return for three measly midgets.
Sure, one will lament the three “measely midgets” for the Big Boy, the that’s the tradeoff for an operable 4000.
Mel & Mo, an operating 4000 is going to be ver nice, but it’s not theirs anymore. It seems everyone here thinks they could have gotten a much better trade.
Did they run this in under it’s own power? I thought I read somewhere they were going to.
wow. They give you a true jewl. and in return they get three fake’s. wow i expected more from up. I thought they might get a steam locomotive to run at the rail giants mesuem. I mean they are putting one to steam why not return the favor and make one of there’s return to steam. Or i thought they were gonna give them some of up’s ( surplus) passenger cars. regardless of the story… I think the rail giant’s just got shafted. Like you posted in one of your magizne’s traded a jewl and got back a piece of junk instead.
To me the main thing I think they should have received is a permanent turnout to the metrolink line and permanent trackage so they would have access to live rail. It would have made things alot easier to move the Big Boy out and to bring new items in. Also they could have repainted the boxcar instead of giving it to them in such sorry shape. Just my thought on it.
To me the main thing I think they should have received is a permanent turnout to the metrolink line and permanent trackage so they would have access to live rail. It would have made things alot easier to move the Big Boy out and to bring new items in. Also they could have repainted the boxcar instead of giving it to them in such sorry shape. Just my thought on it.
I assume the 3105 is currently operational, and will stay that way?
UP had repainted a box car but when it was set out on a side track waiting to be moved, some cretin sent it off to be loaded as a customer. In haste, UP sent a an available back-up and a promise to pay for help complete a complete paint- job on the box car to the Museum’s satisfaction.
As far as painting 3105 and the baywindow caboose back into MoPac and Rock Island colors respectively, those railroads mean nothing to southern California since both got no farther west than Texas or Colorado. The Museum set the terms and UP complied. Plus in the future, additional cars donated to the museum can be trucked in, but there was noway to truck out the 4014. Even though the technology exists, the roads able to support the weight do not…
To say sou cal railfans would not appreciate RI or MP colors…is stupid