Fairbanks Morse for sale in Texas

[thebigham]

The pics look like it is at a museum:

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Fairbanks Morse #44
Water Damage
Roller bearings
Price: $30,000
Location: TX

[mowingman]

It is at the Galveston Railroad Museum in Galveston, Tx. It was flooded by ocean saltwater during a hurricane a few years ago, as was their entire collection of equipment. This is the museum that used some of their flood damage insurance funds, to purchase and rebuild two, ex WAG F units. They are now painted in the red and silver Santa Fe paint.

[mp15ac]

That was one of three H20-44 diesels owned by Southwest Portland Cement. Sad to see that it got water damaged, and isn't operable. I was hoping that one of the sound DCC companies could use it to record the sounds from a larger FM diesel for the 10 and 12 cylinder units, like the Erie Builts and Train Masters.

Stuart