ATSF 3463

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Jared Childress	General	That just sad, looks liek she has been serverely neglected and is in MAJOR need of repair even as a static display. Some one needs to step in and take care of this old piece of Santa Fe history. If not that at least daonate her to a museum who will be worthy of taking care of her. Thanks for shareing, alot to be done but still a nice locomotive.	11/21/2010 12:14:23 AM

Jared Childress	General	Sorry for all the spelling/typing errors, was typing fast and should've looked before hitting submit and i look like an idiot. BUt thanks for showing us this old babe.	11/21/2010 12:16:18 AM

Austin Rees	General	Yes it badly needs care. I have tried to contact the museum that owns the locomotive but they dont seem very interested in it.	2/28/2011 11:29:10 AM

Todd Crim	General	I just saw a news article that claimed a group called the Coalition for Sustainable Coal has acquired this locomotive (I did another search on a popular news site and found a bunch more articles, so it looks like a real project). It said they plan to work with the University of Minnesota to restore and convert it to use "biocoal" under the ID "CSR 3463". The article went on to say the idea is that making coal out of sustainable forests is cheaper than diesel, virtually carbon neutral, and free of heavy metals and other unpleasant things. Other benefits included the fact that it could be deployed in countries where high speed railroads are not feasible. They anticipate it being able to pull a passenger train with "electric –like performance" for less than the cost of a diesel-electric. Personally, I hope it happens so I can buy a ticket.	6/6/2012 4:00:52 PM

Todd Crim	General	I just saw a news article that claimed a group called the Coalition for Sustainable Coal has acquired this locomotive (I did another search on a popular news site and found a bunch more articles, so it looks like a real project). It said they plan to work with the University of Minnesota to restore and convert it to use "biocoal" under the ID "CSR 3463". The article went on to say the idea is that making coal out of sustainable forests is cheaper than diesel, virtually carbon neutral, and free of heavy metals and other unpleasant things. Other benefits included the fact that it could be deployed in countries where high speed railroads are not feasible. They anticipate it being able to pull a passenger train with "electric –like performance" for less than the cost of a diesel-electric. Personally, I hope it happens so I can buy a ticket.	6/6/2012 4:01:23 PM

Todd Crim	General	Sorry - I hit refresh and it double posted.	6/6/2012 4:02:41 PM

ATSF 3463
Date: 10/2/2010	Location: Topeka, KS	Views: 3393	Collection Of: Sean Rodkey
Locomotives: ATSF 3463(4-6-4)			Author: Sean Rodkey

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