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Trains News Wire EXCLUSIVE: Alco PA to be the ‘cherry on top’ at Spencer, N.C.
Thanks MR. McCormick. What a great gift to all of us.
Now thats a comeback story! Awesome!!!
This got me off the fence about attending. This is every bit of history as the Big Boy, perhaps more so considering it was a individuals will to bring it back to life.
I can appreciate that. It’s a beauty.
Great news! A beautiful locomotive being restored by real preservationist!
How do you top 611? This is how.
Wish 4449 was in condition good enough to head to Spencer, but a PA is AWESOME!!!
Been waiting for the PA to make the list!
Beatiful job, Doyle,
My favorite passenger diesel…performance with style and classic esthetic excellence.
But you did a lot of body and didn’t replicate at least one feature that set apart the NKP PA’s from, I’m pretty sure, all the other PA’s,
Talking…well, writing…about the bell mounted in that compartment cut into the vertical nose sheet on the fireman’s side about in line with frmn’s chair about 4 feet above the coupler.
Merely curious, not accusatory.
You’re a national treasure. Stay well. You were a trainee at the simulator; met you there, I was one of the instructors then, what…32 yrs ago?
If the 611 isn’t the cherry on top, it is definitely the hot fudge topping. Now only if the C-liner from canada could come. …
Well, now. A real coup for NCTM and Mr. McCormick. Major props to both! I think this is the last rabbit NCTM could possibly pull out of their hat… wait, did I hear the “JAWS” theme music???
I agree with Fred!
I have been hoping to hear this news since the Streamliner event was announced. Great news!
I have been hoping to hear this news since the Streamliner event was announced. Great news!
I have been hoping to hear this news since the Streamliner event was announced. Great news!
I have been hoping to hear this news since the Streamliner event was announced. Great news!
Great news, but Trains missed a PA. One of the Rio Grande B units is still around as a HEP car.
It sure would look nice behind NKP 190 someday if there’s a third set of trucks available to put under her since those were replaced 30+ years ago.
The nose bell was a later addition which is why it isn’t here. Check out the picture of the NKP PA on page 34 of the fondly remembered PA retrospective in the November 1966 issue of Trains. Clearly no nose mounted bell on her.
His stated intention is to get her looking like the original 190 at the time he had a cab ride on her as a child.
Love the PA. AT&SF’s standard; BUT no pics of 4014?
Coverage of thank yous and whats for lunch! Come on guys;
get it together! Put the cam on the engine not the crossing gates. Give out, repetitively, info on the 4014!
Nice engine, but I wish he would’ve painted it back into its original Warbonnet scheme. But hey, Nickel Plate Road is better than the scrappers torch.