DYNARAIL

The founders of DynaRail organized an effort in 2002 to save locomotive #231 from imminent scrapping, which was a success, and that effort was repeated with the saving of locomotive #6976 from similar scrapping in the following year. The ongoing care, maintenance, restoration and operation of such preservation efforts remains our number one goal... Locomotive 231, which is owned by Dynamic Rail Preservation Inc., was built in July 1977 by Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in La Grange, Illinois. It worked for Amtrak from 1977 through 2001, pulling many trains across the midwest and western parts of the United States, with some trips to the eastern region as well as Canada... In October 2001, 231 operated its last revenue trip on a San Joaquin train into Oakland, California, and was towed dead-in-train on the California Zephyr to Chicago, and then to Beech Grove, Indiana for disposition. Chris Fussell, a fan of the locomotive, then raised over $30,000 in ten days in fall of..

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