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Trains News Wire EXCLUSIVE: Alco PA restoration reaches milestone in Oregon
Fantastic! It would be great to see it power an excursion along the original Nickel Plate someday.
The PA in Texas will be painted in Warbonnet, so there’s no need to gripe about Doyle’s choice. Besides, the PAs looked great in every paint scheme ever applied to them. I know I’ll be more than happy to go into debt if I must in order to get out to Portland for NKP 190’s maiden voyage. Are there any private car owners with rolling stock that will match?
I’m glad I live in Oregon. Go Doyle !
Good job! Now send it back east here and reunite it with it’s (adopted) original habitat!
Great job to Doyle and company. The locomotive looks great and hopefully will get a chance to stretch it’s legs on a mainline real soon!
I agree, his engine, he can’t paint it whatever he wants! I remember the NKP PA’s as a young man and it looks just fine to me in the Bluebird paint scheme!
Hate to say this but I can see the day when some kook environ-mentalist group complains about a PA trying to do an impression of an oil fired steam locomotive going up a grade with an excessively heavy load, and gets legislation passed which effectively bans operation of anything of Alco heritage because it doesn’t meet emissions / noise / whatever.
As for the paint, it is like a house. If your neighbor paints his house some color you don’t like, the American way is to either accept it or too bad, accept it. It’s his house, he paid for it.
The PA count missed one. There’s still one of the Rio Grande B units out there converted to a HEP car.
One of the nicest guys in the business… Stopped in at the Brooklyn roundhouse with my son years ago, and Doyle couldn’t have been nicer.
Nice to see smoke coming out of a PA in 2013! Beautiful. Keep it up, brother - you’re an inspiration!
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It will always be D&H to me…
At first I thought it should be in atsf war bonnet but I agree wit Doyle the PA is stunning in NKP paint.
thank u so very much 4 all the time and effort u have put forth . i love what u r doing. keep em rolling. kudo’s doyle
Would be great to see this engine alongside 765 and 8100.
I have always liked the NKP blue&Cream scheme. Still impressive these days. Thanks, To Doyle and his Team!
Hope to see on December trip to Portland. Is it available for photos and if so where located?
Doyle…you nailed it: You own it…you paint it to suit your fallen flag. We should all be celebrating the fact that one of these beautiful locomotives is being brought back to life!
I actually helped to set up the four PAs while working as a machinist apprentice for the Santa Fe in Barstow when the four PAs nos. 59;60;62;and 66 were sold to the D&H. The PAs went form hell and back after their tenure with the D&H as nos. 16 thru. 19. When the D&H sold the units to Mexico I figure that was it for the PAs. As we seen, miracles do happen as two of them were repatriated back to the U.S. by Mr. McCormick. This story is certainly not short of an odyssey.
The “honorary steam engine” for sure!