Finger Lakes Railway - All Time Roster

Update..
FGLK B23-7 2304, out of service in Geneva for the last 2 years,
has been repaired and returned to service!
She is operating as of mid-June. (source-FGLK)

I updated the roster:

http://gold.mylargescale.com/scottychaos/FGLK/

and am also beginning a section for cabooses and passenger cars.

thanks,
Scot

I have updated the page:

http://gold.mylargescale.com/scottychaos/FGLK/

Now with some Passenger car data..
I cant find the original numbers for the VIA RAIL cars..
anyone know their heritage?

(also looking for the heritage of the Baggage car)

thanks,
Scot

scottychaos wrote:I have updated the page:

http://gold.mylargescale.com/scottychaos/FGLK/

Now with some Passenger car data..
I cant find the original numbers for the VIA RAIL cars..
anyone know their heritage?

(also looking for the heritage of the Baggage car)

thanks,
Scot

The 4 Gray Passanger Cars are originaley built for Canadian National they were later transfered to VIA Rail Canada I do not rember the orignal car numbers althow I'll tell ya that they are stamped in the door handles on push bars on the doors inside the cars. Two of them had electric heat and set up to run on a HEP Unit and 2 still had steam heat on them and required a steam generaor car which VIA Rail still uses on there Churchill, Manatoba route on the Hudson Bay Railway.

The 2 Maroon color 6 axle cars are orignal Ex Norfolk & Western Railroad after they were sold by N&W.

Update!

We had a report of a new unit, to become FGLK 2309..
Was rumoured to be another Camas Prairie unit, (same as 2308)..I have now confirmed that rumour is untrue.

I took a look around the internet this morning, and found photographic proof of TWO new FGLK units!
FGLK 2309 and FGLK 2310.

Originally Santa Fe Units, still wearing ATSF Warbonnet paint!

Photos here:
FGLK 2309 - http://www.locophotos.com/~locophot/Pho ... oID=108610
FGLK 2010 - http://www.locophotos.com/~locophot/Pho ... oID=108611

Locomotive - FGLK 2309
Model - GE B23-7
Built - 1979, April
Bld No. - 42422
Arrived on FGLK -
Paint - ATSF Warbonnet Yellow & Blue
Status -
History:
1979 - April, built as ATSF 6376, part of order 1496. built with AAR-B trucks
1988 - (late '88 or early '89) Rebuilt, received current FB2 trucks.
1989 - (late '88 or early '89) was briefly Re # ATSF 7210:2
1989 - Sep - Re # back to ATSF 6376
1999 - to BNSF 4233
2008 - to Ohio Central 4233
2010 - March - to FGLK 2309


In 1988 ATSF Rebuilt 16 of their B23-7 units.
they were upgraded to 3,000 HP and were briefly renumbured in the 7200 series.
FGLK 2309 was part of this group. 2310 was not.


Locomotive - FGLK 2310 Model - GE B23-7
Built - 1979, April
Bld No. - 42430
Arrived on FGLK -
Paint - ATSF Warbonnet Yellow & Blue
Status -
History:
1979 - April, built as ATSF 6384, part of order 1496, built with AAR-B trucks.
2000 - to BNSF 4241
2008 - to Ohio Central 4241
2010 - March - to FGLK 2310


(2310 also received FB2 trucks at some point, but uncertain when.
she does not have the same 1988 rebuild history as 2309)




FGLK roster page is updated:
http://gold.mylargescale.com/scottychao ... index.html

Still no confirmed spottings of either unit in Geneva yet..

Scot

Awesome! Good find, Scot!

by RS-3 » Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:53 pm

BTW, I think I saw somewhere they might be getting two B23-7's, and I want to say they are from the Ohio Central, ex-BNSF. But don't hold me to that. (Their *just* GE's, not like they were Alcos or anything.

Funny how RS-3 had it right all the time and everyone else keep saying it was something different....Wonders what kind of condition they are in and how much work is going to be needed to get them running

Not terribly surprising since GWI bought out the Ohio Central and GVT is pretty much all-EMD so has been slowly dumping the GE's (and didn't get any of the Alcos OHCR had at all, they stayed with previous ownership in the sale).


Edit: I've no idea why that said GVT, perhaps I shouldn't reply to posts early in the morning.

That would be GWI, not GVT....hopefully GVT never goes all EMD!

FWIW, current issue of Railfan & Railroad (with the Ski Train F40PH's on the cover) has a shot inside of 1702 in service on FarmRail last winter.

Looks like they need a little work.

RailBus63 wrote:Looks like they need a little work.

Knowing the Fingerlakes Guys, As small as they may be, I give it 2 weeks... not even.. 1 week before both units are on the road. Patched, of course.
I wonder when they'll do up 2308, these two, and the P&W boat in the lightning stripes.

Lehighton_Man wrote:

RailBus63 wrote:Looks like they need a little work.

Knowing the Fingerlakes Guys, As small as they may be, I give it 2 weeks... not even.. 1 week before both units are on the road. Patched, of course.
I wonder when they'll do up 2308, these two, and the P&W boat in the lightning stripes.

Most of the outher B23's got painted when traffic was a bit slow. So I would assume that They will more than likley run as is till 2309 and 2310 arrive when ever that will be. I did not know that they had bought a 10th B23-7 I knew about the 9th one.

Thats now 9 B23s?
I'm sure they can take the time to paint 2309 and 2310, since usually 2 or 3 handle the GA turn... to the best of my knowledge. (Do correct me if I am wrong) Though I may not like GE's, its good to see that the FGLK is surely prospering to continue purchasing more power.

Lehighton_Man wrote:Thats now 9 B23s?

Ten:

2301
1989
2303
2304
2305
2306
2307
2308
2309
2310

Scot

Ah yes. Thank you. Forgot about 1989. There is no 2302? Or is that the one in Texas?