Noblesville update

The Indiana Transportation Museum officially gets evicted from its site in Forest Park in Noblesville in a day or so, and plans for the equipment seem to have been changing quickly. The current status or condition of the equipment - at least, the electric equipment - haven't changed quite as quickly. Most of the traction collection is in the same state and location it was a week or two ago.

The big change is with Singer 1, the diminutive 250v switching locomotive that was stored in a small display building along with the Indianapolis mule car. The Singer locomotive was evidently moved on the 10th into storage in Francesville, Indiana, north of Lafayette about halfway between Noblesville and Chicago. Final plans for this locomotive have not been solidified. Its new location - as well as a control type (it's the only piece of equipment on the roster with K-21 control) - has been noted on the PNAERC roster.

Of the other electric equipment on-site, Twin Branch 4 has had its condition changed from "displayed" to "stored" given that ITM is no longer really open to the public. A visit to ITM by yours truly allowed me to add a motor type - it has WH 908CD motors, the same type as the Phelps-Dodge locomotives preserved in Arizona - and allowed me to figure out what type of master controller it has. It has 349C2 master controllers but unfortunately I don't know whether its control wiring scheme is HB, HBF, or what (it's a battery locomotive so I'm assuming not HL). Anyone know?

I was also able to get updated photos of some of the electric cars at ITM and they're online here, on our sister blog Hicks Car Works.