It should be preserved at a museum, not rusting away like that in what appears to be the middle of nowhere.
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I agree, I'd sure wish it was being restored somewhere for use on a museum's tracks. If it was feasible, I would love to back a trailer up and load it up to restore myself, use it to go to the mailbox so-to speak. Unfortunately it weighs too much for that.
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If the diesel components are as good as shape as the outside, you could probably just put new batteries in it, and then because I bet any diesel in the tank has turned foul and turned to varnish, you could just feed diesel from a small hand held 5 gallon tank straight to the injection pump, it wouldn't know any difference.
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This unit has the most odd looking hand rails of any sw1 I've seen before, I guess its due to the m/u capabilities it has. Nice find Mr. Scott.
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A little research has found that this may be the only surviving Georgia and Florida locomotive.
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| Posted by Kibu on December 2, 2014 | |
The guy that owns the locomotive fires it up every so often and moves it around, to make sure everything works. By his own statement, he only needs change the batteries. He was contacted about preservation, and noted that he would consider selling the locomotive to a museum, but would not donate it under any circumstances. As it is, he still uses it from time to time (roughly once every two or three months) to move the L&W cars around that aren't currently under lease. Whenever NS is ready to deliver some cars to him, they unclip the switch leading to this point, move the cars on, and leave the owner to sort out where to put them.
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