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Curious what the recovery tab wound up being. I saw $160,000 being batted around somewhere... but not sure if that's just for the crane/rigging work just to get them on the flatbeds? There was also a cost for sidebooms to move them 200 feet to a temporary storage area on the site (one article said ...

SST wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 7:17 am

Alcoman wrote: ↑Sat Aug 25, 2007 8:23 pm I have just learned that some plans have been made to rescue some of the equipment....Good News to hear!

This is the second posting from 2007. I guess he was right!

I'll admit - I was the biggest critic of this. If it wasn't for the construction project and new haul road, this never would have happened. But it did. I'm humbled and impressed with the efforts to make it happen. East bound and down, loaded up and truckin' A-we gonna do what they say can't be done ...

Update from August... huh... they might actually do it after all! Pictures here: https://www.facebook.com/DanburyRR/posts/pfbid02MRHZQw5yjJDKUygY6aRnvGnzVh5itaEwHRkady2LUyiw21ZBCMiCuDahhyPub9x3l The Danbury Railway Museum News from Glenmont! The site around the two historic New York Central electric...

Hey Dan... Once most of the site is cleared, the smoke stack and boiler are supposed to come down at once via controlled demolition (explosives) later this year or next year. The turbine building will come down next by mechanical means. They're doing it in this order to protect the 24,000 > 345,000 ...

Fireman43 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 8:28 pm Forgot to ask - did the plant have its own dedicated switcher?

Any updates?

I'd imagine that Alco was on live rails and easy to move to a transload area for OTR transport. Once these things are on heavy haul equipment - the move should be fairly straightforward. The OTR move for 2 locomotives (including the Alco) cost $350,000. https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-w...

DRM mentions a financial backer by name in the article. If I remember right from previous posts, he pledged $500k towards the move himself but I could be wrong in remembering that. He offered a loan (unspecified amount) that needs to be paid back. If the museum didn’t think they could be saved, why...

So far the museum has sunk $110,000 into this project to move these things 200 feet. They're looking at another $125,000 for the crane to disassemble what they can (*if* they can) and place onto heavy transport equipment. Then the costs to hire a heavy hauler with specialized over the road equipment...

They're out of the way, for now, yes - and that took a bite out of the money needed to move them to Danbury. But there will come a time where the property owners will give an ultimatum to remove them from the property - either in one piece, or many small pieces. The project will not wait for some ho...

https://railfan.com/rare-new-york-central-electrics-safe-for-now/?fbclid=IwAR0kMcvuZyCQ_lcGQg35S6fLenyleUcpCDb3fmXf7uJeRVA-Rhayp0HNV5g The electrics have been moved via side booms to a safe area out of the developers way so that they can be disassembled and prepared for transport to DRM. That's goo...

Here's the state of all of the equipment when this thread started 15 years ago... Colonie Alco FA-2 - WM 302 - saved* 2008 D&H Box Car - saved** 2013 by person(s) unknown / location unknown D&H Cabooose - saved** 2013 by person(s) unknown / location unknown Alco RS3 - ex B&M, nee D&H...

A preservation travesty. Scrappers just want the steel and don't give a damn about the preservation of artifacts. Nah. Scrappers are disposing of artifacts set aside for 'preservation' but sat rotting in the elements for 30 years. The cost to remove those things for actual preservation / restoratio...

Finally an update. The 4 cars, RS-3 and U-25 have been cut up. From the private Delaware and Hudson Railroad Facebook Page... https://www.facebook.com/groups/513534422005160/ Hal T. Raven All that’s left at glenmont today…. The U25b and RS3 as well as coaches are gone! The scrappers were supposed to...