If only one of them could find a home at the B&O Museum in Baltimore...
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They already have way too much stuff that they can’t properly care for as it is.
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| Posted by on February 25, 2019 | |
I think i'd rather see them rust away on this siding than rust at the B&O museum. That place does not know how to maintain their equipment
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Very SAD. I was commuting daily on MRC when these first arrived as "the LATEST & GREATEST thing." Sic Gloria transit. It would seem they could find a working home somewhere. OR, put one on display at Brunswick. Curious about the RDC(s?) in the background.
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Better to be owned by someone less inclined towards eventual scrapping or rebuilding, in my book. And to be fair, I think part of the B&O Museum's problem is that they had to spend a decade repairing their prize locomotives - locomotives that had been already been restored and placed under cover - after the '03 roof collapse. That took up a lot of resources that they would have (or at least could have) otherwise invested in maintaining the outdoor exhibits. Takes a long time for a non-profit to recover from something like that.
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Rich, the neighboring property is a scrap yard and the RDC is on the siding to the yard. No idea if its there for scrap or not.
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Who would have thought - looks like #57 (second from the front) may have escaped after all! (see photo 803401) Still not properly preserved, but at least it will "live" to see another day.
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