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Western Railroad Discussion > Military Units in Alturas?Date: 08/27/14 14:08 Military Units in Alturas? Author: CCT41 Anyone know what the 4 Lima RS4TCs are doing in Alturas?
 Date: 08/27/14 14:11 Re: Military Units in Alturas? Author: CPRR "Loose lips sink ships"
This is top secret from what I heard...... Date: 08/27/14 14:14 Re: Military Units in Alturas? Author: weather Tule lake.
Date: 08/27/14 14:31 Re: Military Units in Alturas? Author: pdt How cool. Thank goodness for the military, or their wouldnt be and baldwin/lima stuff left.
Note to the kids...this is the really neat old stuff, not SD-60's, or B40-8's Date: 08/27/14 14:33 Re: Military Units in Alturas? Author: mmciau Going to god?
Michael McInerney Marion, South Australia, Date: 08/27/14 15:18 Re: Military Units in Alturas? Author: Pullman Like those NCO logo's. Nice touch.
Date: 08/27/14 15:28 Re: Military Units in Alturas? Author: trkspd If they ever come up for sale, I'll buy one. Just to have a model of the first loco I ever operated.
Posted from Android Date: 08/27/14 15:34 Re: Military Units in Alturas? Author: callum_out Weren't those connected with the Modoc Academy??
Out Date: 08/27/14 16:08 Re: Military Units in Alturas? Author: CCT41 Well, they are obviously not stored inside at the moment :)
Posted from iPhone Date: 08/27/14 16:11 Re: Military Units in Alturas? Author: TCnR Phew, thought we were invading Nevada.
Gol' durn Burning Man people. Date: 08/27/14 17:47 Re: Military Units in Alturas? Author: 28hogger Actually they are Baldwin/Whitcombs built 1952/53
1: Sierra Railway's 1265. Railtown 1897 2: These are the current spec's for the 1265. The locomotives where rebuilt by the military in the late 1990's   Date: 08/27/14 20:20 Re: Military Units in Alturas? Author: miralomarail Many years ago, these Units, were sent to Alturas, for a proposed RR Museum, rumor says someone with the Modoc RR School helped in getting these. The RR Museum fell apart, and these were placed into storage
I saw them in 2003, and the last I heard, they were on their way to Oregon, but as your photo shows, that did not happen either.  Date: 08/27/14 22:21 Re: Military Units in Alturas? Author: sp1827ml As miraloma noted, these units were for a proposed RR museum that did not happen. I believe they are owned by Modoc County or the city of Alturas. They have been hidden away at the old Juniper Mill for several years and now it has been reported that the mill is set to be reopened. I'm thinking that's why the locomotives have been taken out of the building.
Mark Reno, NV (former resident of Alturas) Date: 08/28/14 08:16 Re: Military Units in Alturas? Author: callum_out And pigs are flying too, announced this morning that the state is actually going to allow
burned areas to be logged (over the screams of the enviros) rather than left to feed beetles. Out Date: 08/28/14 11:18 Re: Military Units in Alturas? Author: FT There was another post recently from someone visiting Alturas. Someone from the Washington-Idaho RR, Marshall,WA to edge of Idaho, reported they owned them.
Keith A Date: 08/29/14 01:46 Re: Military Units in Alturas? Author: CanyonTiger pdt Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Note to the kids...this is the really neat old > stuff, not SD-60's, or B40-8's Amen. They're absolutely beautiful! I'm glad to see they're still around. Tiger Date: 08/29/14 09:45 Re: Military Units in Alturas? Author: SantaFe9820 Not sure how relevant this is, but there's one of these ex-military Lima's almost identical to the red one stored in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa for years. I'm pretty sure it belongs to the Burlington Junction Railway.
By the way, I'm one of the kids that thinks SD60s and B40-8s are "neat old stuff".. ;) |