Western Railroad Discussion > Campo, CA Museum - any F-Units?

Quick question I hope someone can help with. I'd thought I'd heard somewhere that the museum down in Campo had recently acquired an F-unit with a snowplow pilot (ex-SP?). Is this true, and if so, anyone have a unit number?

Thanks

PE

Weren't those the three that came over Tehachapi a year or so ago? IIRC they were either ex-Alaska or USS (memory fades over thyme)


TCS - ethpee

The Campo museum doesn't have any F units, but would love to have some of course. CZRy has 2 A units and 1 B unit, that I believe are stored unservicable in Jacumba. I might be wrong about the location and the status, but I don't think so.

6088 Wrote:
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> The Campo museum doesn't have any F units, but
> would love to have some of course. CZRy has 2 A
> units and 1 B unit, that I believe are stored
> unservicable in Jacumba. I might be wrong about
> the location and the status, but I don't think
> so.
>
>Would these Fs be ex B&LE ? I seem to recall a set of these came out to California or maybe the ones down there are ex Washington Central Just the rantings of a confused out fart

Caught this at Jacumba in Oct 04. Is this what you were referring to?

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This may have been why you thought the museum owned the F-Units. The F-Units belong to CZRY, but previously pulled the "Spirit of Washington" dinner trains. Here they pull the inaugural run of the newly restored RPO. That car *is* owned by the museum and is one nice piece of restoration!

November 23rd, 2002

(Isn't that Lumpy "photogging" Herb Kerr??)

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Same F unit between tunnel 10 and 11.

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TopcoatSmith Wrote:
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> Weren't those the three that came over Tehachapi a
> year or so ago? IIRC they were either ex-Alaska or
> USS (memory fades over thyme)

roberthedgecock Wrote:
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> Would these Fs be ex B&LE ? I seem to
> recall a set of these came out to California or
> maybe the ones down there are ex Washington
> Central

You're both right.

They were originally Bessemer & Lake Erie units, then worked for US Steel out of Atlantic City, Wyoming, then were on the "Spirit of Washington" dinner train, before heading for the CG.

Yes, I do believe they went over Tehachapi on the way down here, and a friend of mine went along as a rider on the equipment, and he did get to ride through Tehachapi.... kinda a highlight for him.

6088 Wrote:
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> Yes, I do believe they went over Tehachapi on the
> way down here, and a friend of mine went along as
> a rider on the equipment, and he did get to ride
> through Tehachapi.... kinda a highlight for
> him.
>
Not only that he got to ride over Tehachapi in an F unit !!!!

I do have some pics of the F's over the Tijuana river bridge,

I once caught a neat lashup: the museum's MRS-1 1820, CZRY 4324 Geep9 and Spirit F7 No. 102


Geep