Re: ALCO PA's? How many preserved-where?
Author: Ivan Love
Date: 03-31-2014 - 20:18
BOB2 Wrote:
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> I have a diesel preservation challenge for the
> learned crew at Altamont:
>
> How many Alco PA's and FA's" are still out there?
>
>
> Preserved and/or working?
>
> And, where are they?
>
> As an old San Diegan rider, and someone who still
> has my AT&SF PA builders plate, for locomotive #
> 76545, built in November 1948, still with original
> silver paint, it would be interesting to find out
> how many are left, and where they are.
>
> Also, as I am getting dim, as some have also
> remarked on this blog, I would like to know the
> original AT&SF engine number, or a source for that
> serial number and the engine, as I can't remember
> the number this came from (I had thought it was a
> seventy something "c"), and never wrote it down
> way back when........?
I just won ALCO PB-1 plate number 76545 on ebay it was chrome plated