Chapter 2, Reassembling and Restoring the North Coast Limited Streamliner
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- Chapter 2 of Mike Gelhaus' efforts to reassemble and restore the Northern Pacific Railway's premiere transcontinental passenger train, the North Coast Limited. Includes interviews with Mike and Norm Lorentzen, a former CEO & President of the Burlington Northern. We also take a look at a former NCL dining car Mike considered buying.
Via Rail's "The Canadian" is the last of the original streamliners from Toronto/Montreal to Vancouver. Beautiful !
Mike Gelhaus did write to Warren Buffet for financial assistance, he was hoping to get lucky. From the research I have done about Warren Buffet is his goal to increase his wealth and he has no interest in transportation history, railroad preservation or passenger trains. His focus on trains is he owns BNSF, because it's a money maker and he can't loose. Thanks for reading.
Dining car refurbishment would take two persons working fulltime one year, assuming they had funding for the entire project. Not two weeks!
That's a restoration. My time estimate was to make the car "functional."
3 of Mike's Cars were purchased by Webb Rail. 2 of the Domes have been fully restored and in operation.
Thanks for the info, David! I hadn't heard of Webb Rail but checked out their web site. It is great to see that the cars are being cared for and getting back on the rails. Please update us if you get any further news on the cars. I've wondered a lot about what's going on with Mike's cars and this news definitely has a soothing effect. Dan
I thought all of the cars were bought by Webb Rail. If not where are the remainder?
They were not restored to Mike's dream, but upgraded to more current standards with more modern amenities.
Has he been able to purchase an ex-NP diner?