SIRT possibly getting a New Locomotive

Supposidly an out fit in maine bought the 2 units and the float bridge on the NYCH will be used to move these engines to the natinal rail network.

The date is this sunday the 9th at 7 am so get your camers ready.

So are they being barged or trucked? Ive read both..

The engiens are going to be barged out from cliftion acording to SIRT and the subway locos are being truck out. So dont miss this cool event.

Changed again the time have now been moved to monday at 8 AM. I might not get to go.

Barge images from Tugster:

http://tugster.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/weeks-2/

Gentlemen, bear with me.
Why would the MTA need four locomotives like this on Staten Island?

All four were off-loaded and inside the shops by 130pm. Quite an interesting thing to watch. The barge and crane were huge. The Alco's are still there, and from the information I received while I was watching the operation, they will be scrapped on-site. It proved too expensive for the tourist road to move them off Staten Island and up to Maine. The two NYCTA GE's will be sent back to the Transit Authority via truck.

After a three week break-in period you should see them on the road in service.

How did they get from the pier to the engine house? I heard both trucking and laying temporary track to the pier.

The crane/barge company, Weeks, would not provide a quote to the prospective buyers of the ALCOs so it was very risky to bid without knowing the costs involved in getting them back to New Jersey.

They were lifted from the barge which was held in place off shore by a few tugs (there is no place to tie up in that area....at least safely), placed on low-boy high capacity trailers and towed a short distance (about 75 to 100 feet) to the Clifton yard to where they were once again lifted by another crane and placed on the rails in the yard.

It was interesting to watch, and amazingly, it was all accomplished in about 4 hours.

Sorry, no photos, I was a "guest" of the SIRT at the time and was asked not to take photos.

Interesting...thanks for the info. We were told by MTA they were going to the pier at the Naval Station and then temp track laid to get them near the track by the engine house.

Sad to hear the Alcos are going to be scrapped.

AndyB wrote:Gentlemen, bear with me.
Why would the MTA need four locomotives like this on Staten Island?

this is what happens when you buy in bulk.

eriously, this is one to one replacment of SIRs existing locomotive fleet. 4 coming in, 4 going out.

Here is the link with a picture of the lift.

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/20 ... rrive.html