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Well, here we are in 2013 now, anybody heard any recent news?

MX

The Christmas installment of the internet newsletter arrived recently, so I guess the FYRG must still be "alive".

MX

Unfortunately the contributions of volunteers in the museum field also tends to be overlooked and unappreciated. A great deal is made of a few famous photographers, some of whom never shared information or techniques with anyone or made any effort to teach or volunteer. Meanwhile the army of volunte...

Good luck to you in your efforts to help out. I used to think that it would be great to do similar work, but after seeing how some organizations operate, my views started to change. A lot of the organizations in preservation and railroad history turn out to be "Good Old Boys" clubs, they g...

First sentence correct.
Second sentence....why not just wait and see.
You might not know all the people who are interested in this.
Or on the other hand you might know them, but not know they are interested.

MX

The "guesstimate" of $3 Million of work remaining has been mentioned to me several times over the last few years by people who were involved with the project. It seems very reasonable, considering the cost of rebuilding the MBTA stretch F40s ten years ago was close to $2 Million per locomo...

The State of New Hampshire is the owner, they have the ability to resolve this matter. It might be more easily justified for them to work with the State of Pennsylvania to relocate it to the RR Museum of Pennsylvania, than to continue to try to get this done through volunteer groups in New England. ...

So in the spirit of Jeff's posting, lets shift gears here for a minute and talk about the "fiscal cliff". No I don't mean the change in the tax rates the end of this year, or the collapse of the US dollar (which will be next year's crisis), I mean the challenge posed by the cost of the rem...

How about LISTENING to restoration and preservation specialists when they give you ideas It would be such a simple thing for preservation groups to do, but so many times the advice of the people who built it, or maintained it, or operated it, is ignored. That kind of thing used to bother me. Nowada...

For the Flying Yankee, I suspect that both the decline in the economy and the unrealistic predictions of progress and completion dates have taken their toll, in either case the result is the same....not enough money coming in. I am a member at a number of non-profit organizations and despite the sou...

Yes, I share the opinion, that they should have not attempted the rebuilding and modernization, at least not with the project oversight arrangement they used. The state needed to employ a project manager experienced in rebuilding railroad equipment and familiar with Winton engines and GE electrical ...

I don't think that any of the "operating" entities in New England have the estimated $3 million in financial resources to turn this empty shell of a streamlined train into a repowered traveling showcase of modern technology, particularly considering the current economic environment. The wi...

Additional with regard to Flying Yankee and the BET: The facilities at BET are not designed to support an articulated train like the Flying Yankee. The center trucks cannot be serviced on the drop table, which is on a dead end track. If you could reach the center trucks without the end being off the...

Here is a little something to further ruin Paul's evening. (see his previous posting) In all the years that people have been messing around with this train, the only actual repowering study that I have ever seen produced was the one done in the 1980s by an engineer at EMD when there was talk of it b...

Something pretty close to that, Paul. They were going to complete the weatherization so they could take the tarp down, but then concerns developed over how the completed interior of the #2 car would fare if the train were exposed to sunlight. So my understanding is the tarp is going to remain up, at...