Wednesday, December 5, 2018

The box motor is missing

Our friend Joel Salomon from the Rockhill Trolley Museum was kind enough to send along a series of photos of York Railways 010, an attractive railroad-roof box motor thought to have been built by Niles that as of 2006 was displayed on the grounds of Steam-O-Rama, a steam tractor meet location in Windsor, Pennsylvania just southeast of York. The car looks to be in reasonable condition but aerial photos taken more recently do not show it. Where did it go? It's not unlikely that it was just demolished and scrapped, but then again there are a couple of buildings on the property so it's possible that it's still there and stored inside a la CSL 1278. Any information would be appreciated; if this car is still in existence, and at Steam-O-Rama, then it qualifies for the PNAERC list.

UPDATE: Olin Anderson relates that he's learned York Railways 010 was scrapped in 2016 by Steam-O-Rama. They'd been using the car body as an admission booth, but at that time they built a structure for that purpose and decided to scrap the box motor, which they judged to be in fairly poor condition. So this one is no longer a mystery.

All photos are copyright Joel Salomon.





And Joel included this nice shot of the box motor when it was in service with York Railways. It's more of an interurban-type car than you'd expect for a city system, but then York Railways did have an interurban division.

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