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25 TON LOCOMOTIVE

The 25 ton locomotive was built by GE  in 1943 for the US Navy. It its later years, it served as a switch engine at the Lafarge Scrap Yard in Carrollton, MI, a few miles north of where the museum is today. The locomotive was donated to the museum and is currently undergoing a restoration. Bushey Radiator in Saginaw and General Machine in Buena Vista built a radiator and the parts needed to install it. It currently waits for more manpower to push the restoration into high gear.

ALCO RS1 LOCOMOTIVE

On October 28, 2003, Consumers Energy donated the retired Alco RS-1 locomotive from their Karn/Weadock Generating Complex to the Museum.  The Saginaw Railway Museum now stores the locomotive for display, and is attempting to determine how to best restore it to working condition.

Museum President James Trier noted , "The old Alco locomotive from Karn/Weadock is historically significant to railroad aficionados because it is one of only five or six left in the United States.  We're pleased that Consumers Energy was willing to donate it to our group locally, to preserve the history of significant railroad artifacts in the Saginaw-Bay area."

The locomotive was built in 1951 in Schenectady, New York, and delivered new to the Rutland Railroad in Vermont that year.  Rutland used it until 1964, when they sold it to another Vermont railroad, the Green Mountain Railroad.  Michigan-based Consumers Power Company bought the Alco in 1967.  It was operated at the Karn/Weadock Generating Complex until 2002.

Consumers' Karn/Weadock site General Manager Calvin H. Talley stated upon donation, "We believe in being a good corporate citizen of the communities in which we operate."

The Alco was used to move railcars carrying coal and fuel oil at the complex, Consumers Energy's largest power plant complex.

SOCIETY CAR

The Society Car, aka the "Green Car" has been with us since the beginning.

THE CABOOSE

The Society currently owns two cabooses. One is a Pere Marquette caboose that never had electricity. The caboose was built in 1941 and served until the mid-1980's.

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