02-01-2009, 12:03 AM
Bigsteel Wrote:Quote:Unfortunately, the mikes were cut up instead--i dont understand why they would cut something up like that :| ,its such a waste.id rather see it as a park monument than as a new import car.--josh
They were cut up because the railroads were paid for the scrap value of the steam engines. Very few railroads saved locomotives to donate to parks. Most looked at what they could get for scrap metal without regard to historical significance. It also didn't help that by the time they were ready to scrap out and cut up the steam engines, the C&O had disappeared into the B&O. Any locomotives that the B&O saved or donated would have been B&O prototypes not C&O. What I find sad is that while I'm not a New York Central fan, it is a shame that not one NYC Hudson or Niagara was saved.