SCRANTON, Pa. — Alco PA Nickel Plate 190 has arrived at its new home.
Completing its cross-country journey from Portland, Ore., the locomotive is now in Scranton, handed over to new owner Genesee Valley Transportation by Norfolk Southern this evening.
GVT and the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad will restore the locomotive, which has an operable prime mover but needs electrical-system work, to running condition for use on office car and other special-event trains. First, it will go on temporary display at the Steamtown National Historic Site [see “Alco PA to be publicly displayed …,” Trains News Wire, May 16, 2023].
The Alco was built for Santa Fe in 1948 and was one of four sold to Delaware & Hudson in 1967. All four eventually went to Mexico in 1978; two were repatriated from there as little more wreck-damaged shells in 2000. This unit was restored by preservationist Doyle McCormack and displayed in Portland until it was acquired by GVT earlier this year. The other PA is at the Museum of the American Railroad in Texas.
— Updated at 8:35 p.m. CDT with additional photos.
