Re: GE 25 Ton Contractor's Boxcab

mikerowe Wrote:
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> Being narrow-gauge, that kind of limits the
> alternatives.
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> Mike

The alternatives are not nearly as limited as you might think. I am continually surprised at the number of museums in the country. For example, in 1973 I was personally surprised to see the "Flying Yankee" (56.5" gauge) at Edaville (24" gauge). Last year, my sleep-dazed eyes instantly woke the rest of me to full alert when the "Lake Shores Ltd" took me past a South Shore "800" (aka "Little Joe") in Pennsylvania. Yeah, today I could have found either of those before-hand by doing an online search, but diesel fans continually discuss the fate of one of the early Burlington shovel-nose locomotives. Apparently there are hundreds of companies that resell locomotives, and they see no necessary obligation to repeat their activities on the Internet (and some museums don' put their full collection there either).

I haven't seen it, but I've been to only a fraction of the museums, and I'm guessing the the entirety of those who visit here have collectively missed many of the smaller museums, and even some corners of bigger museums (for example, Greenfield Village now has a corner of their area marked as "authorized personnel only"). So it could be hiding in plain sight or it could be huddled in obscurity.