A selection of the items listed for auction in June.
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. – The city of Noblesville will auction 36 pieces of rolling stock from the Indiana Transportation Museum collection in June. The city has hired Ozark Mountain Railcar to dispose of these items, which were not picked up by other organizations during last year’s emergency disposal and rescue missions.
The museum plans to move to a new location in Logansport, which is about 50 miles northwest of Noblesville.
Among the items are nine passenger cars, 19 freight cars, six locomotives, and two maintenance-of-way machines. The auction is scheduled for June 5-7, 2019.
The passenger stock includes an office car, two ex-Santa Fe stainless steel Budd-built coaches, baggage cars, a Railway Post Office, a steam generator, and a diner. The freight equipment includes seven wooden boxcars and five steel refrigerator cars, as well as a tank car and a wooden caboose.
Four EMD F units including an F7B, a GP9, a Baldwin switcher, and a 44-ton GE will be sold, as well as a tie crane and a tamper.
Indiana Transportation Museum was evicted as part of a long and complicated battle between the museum and the City of Noblesville. The museum operated on 35 miles of isolated track, which it did not own.
For more information, go to ozarkmountainrailcar.com.
–This story was updated to reflect the party selling the equipment
Looking for help to find LIRR caboose #29 – built as a 4 wheeled woodie bobber with wooden cupola- seen reconfigured – standing on main line – well worn – in need- Smithtown NY- east of water tower – adjacent to railyards ramped loading dock – East of Ice Factory spur – South of future Whitey Ford Smithtown Bowl site [ now AMF Smithtown Lanes]
Reconfigured as stretch- two truck- 8 wheeler- with an added rivet clad sheet steel cupola repair covering damaged wood all around – First Long Island vehicle so sheathed- Run as endurance test prior to Pennsy [PRR] year 1914 Altona shop’s “Worlds’ First all steel built similar vehicle – Anybody know where this steel clad cupola Long Island RR #29 bobber is
According to Roger Nash Baldwin- last of the blooded Baldwin line- who worked tirelessly past the 1972 closure of Baldwin Locomotive Works to gain funding for their redesigned Diesel Electrics , indicated this #29 hitched to a Baldwin built -main line – link and pin locomotive – held rights with the Golden Dime Society for future funding of Baldwin
This link and pin purchased from Baldwin during a shop clean out , made its new life working for J.E. Henry, Lincoln, New Hampshire – Henry sold Lincoln to Parker Young Company who assigned the old puffer to forest work on the Beebe River Logging Railroad [ currently operating under suspended operations] PO Box 1, Post Office Square, Plymouth , NH. 03264
Beebe chained her to a flat and shipped her off to Broad Street in Philadelphia for Forest work modification, It seems she may have been the last Broad Street work order to Steam under her own volition to the new Eddystone facility
She was returned to Bebee by flat to work the twenty plus mile of forest track
Considering Rogers request, Golden Dime in realizing he was on in years, wanted to check his faculties. which was simply done by taking him to an unfamiliar house in Nissequogue NY [ near his adopted son’s house – also named Roger Baldwin] to talk technicalities of Baldwin’s biggest and best Locomotives for a very full half hour,
After which he, Roger was blind folded , taken to a table which held a recently delivered part taken from the old link and pin puffer and , after about 3 minuets was able to correctly identify the part by use of finger tips, ,state its location on the machine, top/bottom, fore/aft , and sequence of installation
Roger gained funding for a new plant subject to one condition, – the new generation of Golden Dimers wanted to see the old puffer their predecessor had funded – weekend in the woods sort of adventure-
However during initial discussions to set up a viewing, the old puffer turned up amongst the missing
If any of you have ever heard the sound of creaking carlings, imagine old #29 as she followed out of the yard to whisper, past the village , going toward town, amplified in sound by the weight of added sheet steel
Comments; Carter River RR [also operating under suspended operations] PO Box 1 Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264
Ozark Mountain Railcar is not working for ITM. But rather the City of Noblesville
Whoever wins the bid, make sure your trucking firm follows the maps correctly and knows the bridge heights!