Arborway TT & Northwestern Railroad Disposition

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A post on the Railway Preservation News site concerning this 15" railroad's disposition. Rather than paste the rather lengthy post, I'll just post a link. http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=21878
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Pictures of the dismantling of the Signal System. https://www.flickr.com/photos/23430972@N04

Very depressing way to end such a fantastic little railroad.
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801 is for sale on Discover Live Steam.

https://discoverlivesteam.com/discoverf ... /index.htm

Not a bad price for a working museum piece that will serve very well.
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I’m only about $309,999 short. Not to mention a place to run it.
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mspetersen wrote: Fri Apr 08, 2022 9:35 pm I’m only about $309,999 short. Not to mention a place to run it.

I could possibly manage a down payment on one of the rods...
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BDD, we could go in together to buy the rod, plus a picture of all the other parts…
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Glenn Brooks wrote: Sat Apr 09, 2022 11:37 pmBDD, we could go in together to buy the rod, plus a picture of all the other parts…

:D :D :D
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it will never sell.
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Loco112 wrote: Wed Apr 13, 2022 7:47 amit will never sell.

Never say “Never!” Maybe we can convince Elon Musk to buy it and give it to one of us. He probably spills 300K on the floor each day at work. :D After all, this is the guy that bought a good-sized chunk of Twitter.
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I hope it does sell to someone or some group who will use it and preserve it. Hate to see such a beautiful locomotive languish in some shed for the next 15 or 20 years.

In the end, I think it is better to sell it for whatever you can manage to get for it than to have it sit in a shed or barn for 20 years and then try to sell it for 1/6th the original price to someone who will have to restore it. I guess we will see how badly they want to move it, or how badly someone wants it. Problem with a locomotive that size is that the infrastructure needed to support, maintain, and operate that locomotive would be huge and costly. Much more so than the cost of the locomotive itself. I might could someday afford a $250,000 car (not really), but I surely couldn't if I also had to build the road to drive it on!

This scenario played out recently with some 1 1/2" scale stuff I knew about. Original builder/owner died, and his widow was wanting a mint for his equipment. She was asking about 2X what comparable stuff was going for at the time for his stuff. She would not drop the price any, and thus it all set in the garage for another 20+ years until the widow died. It was finally sold for less than half of what she was asking for to begin with.

Wasn't there a 15" or 16" gauge 2-8-8-4 or some articulated locomotive that was up for sale a few years ago? I don't think it ever sold.
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The wood fired one? Yes, sold, I can't remember where it went. Might have gone across the water.
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Mike Walsh wrote: Thu Apr 14, 2022 2:27 pm The wood fired one? Yes, sold, I can't remember where it went. Might have gone across the water.
Wouldn't that be cool to see on the Romney Dymchurch railway! I bet that would be a big draw over there for special runs
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