“Parts of that trip was run with our steam engines and parts of it ran with that engine.”.Pirkle described the restoration work that Norfolk Southern undertook on the locomotive as if it were something akin to a godsend.Among the work done on the locomotive was the installation of new wheels, new brake lines, new water pumps, new gauges, new meters, new fuel injectors and an entire replacement of its electrical system for its control system.Get daily Gwinnett County and state news headlines delivered to your inbox every day.“They rewired it from one end to the other,” Pirkle said.One reason why officials at the Southeastern Railway Museum are so excited over the restoration is that it would have been hard for staff and museum supporters to pull off the restoration without Norfolk Southern’s involvement.“They did it entirely out of the goodness of their heart,” Pirkle said. The locomotive wound up being sent by NS to Pennsylvania and a local man we spoke with said it had sat for a few days in a yard in nearby Altoona before making it way to Hollidaysburg.The man said he understood that the 6901 will have asbestos removed from it by a company in Hollidaysburg.Seeing No. Anyone know it’s status. Winds light and variable..Cloudy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Mike Ondecker and I caught the Southern 6901 in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 6, 1974. Tags: E8A locomotives, Robert Farkas photography, Southern 6901, Southern E8A 6901, Southern Railway. It returned to the museum, which is located at 3595 Buford Highway in Duluth, in early February.“I couldn’t begin to put a value on it because wiring on something like that is extremely time consuming and complex,” Pirkle said. 6901, the Southern Crescent, right, was returned to the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth last month after four years away.After nearly four years away, an old locomotive from the mid-20th century has come home to Duluth.The Southeastern Railway Museum recently announced the Southern Railway No. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site 6901 locomotive echoes back to an old era in rail transportation in America.General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division built the locomotive — initially known as the No. (Photo: Duncan Carel).Recently restored E8a train No. 6901 and that would require minimizing the amount of wear and tear that it receives.“Special event days would be one of those reasons to run it,” Pirkle said.Officials may not run it, but fans of trains near and far will have a chance to at least see the No. Even after 41 years, she still looks great. Norfolk Southern worked with other companies that had similar trains to come up with a cast to recreate the original wheels with new steel, he said.“(Norfolk Southern), by partnering with that group, managed to get something done that would have been very, very expensive for us to have done,” Pirkle said.Even though it is not likely to be run very often now that it is back at the museum, Pirkle said there are rare occasions where the locomotive could do short runs.Those opportunities would likely be few and far between, however, since the museum wants to preserve the No. Cloudy.
Southern Railway donates the locomotive to the Southeastern Railway Museum No. The railway company took on the work of restoring the No. The locomotive had been dropped off earlier in the day by a Norfolk Southern local.It was in clear view from South Juniata Street in a residential neighborhood.E8A No. That was 41 years ago! Basically, you could wake up in Washington or you could wake up in Atlanta.”.Pirkle said the Crescent, in its heyday, would have provided riders with porter service to help with luggage. The wiring in an of itself with our volunteer staff would have run way more than the four years that it’s been gone.”.Some of the work required some historical replication though.Pirkle said the cast steel wheels took some work to replicate because their size is rare. For a time after its donation, it was used off and on to pull New Georgia Railroad excursion trains, extending its career until it was about 40 years old.“It was donated to us after its time pulling the Southern Crescent, so roughly 1979, and during the 1980s to early 1990s when the state ran the New Georgia dinner train out of Underground (Atlanta), it operated with them for portions of that,” Pirkle said.
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