December 06, 2023 10:14AM
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The building of a replica is no easy matter. Today it can run into the MILLIONS of dollars. With the original artifact you have many of the components already made. I heard (and my information could well be wrong) that Disney back in the 1950s built his locomotives for Disneyland for something like $50,000 each. I think the Jupiter and 119 built by O'Conner in the 1970s 50 years ago cost something like $750,000 each . Those days are LONG GONE. Making each component of a steam locomotive from scratch is VERY expensive. You have engineering drawings that need to be made, pattern making and foundry work and casting, forging, machining etc. Not to mention making a boiler, and appliances like air pumps, injectors, gauges, handles, throttles, johnson bar, and the like. Then there is the wood work of making a cab, running boards tender tank, wheels, and god knows what else.
I remember about ten years ago or so, one of the guys involved with the RGS 36 visited me when I had Eureka out and about. He told me of the RGS 36 plan to be done in a year or two. Well, I admire them for what they have been doing, but it is now many years later and I have not seen the RGS 36 yet. For that matter there is also the replica of the V&T Lyon. That has been decades in the making and it is still not done. That Dave Kloke was able to build the Leviathan and York is a miracle, but he did not have to depend on donations or volunteers to get it his locomotives built. And then he sold both of them.
It is far easier and less expensive to start with an artifact and restore it, than it is to build from scratch. I am not saying you can't build one from scratch, but you better have cubic millions of dollars and a helluva lot of time now days to do it.
Dan Markoff
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