Mastodawn

Does anyone know a museum or other institution that would be willing to take this large vintage railway wheel(?) press? It's marked "Chambersburg Engineering Co., No. 863", and a long time ago it was used to help maintain rail cars at the Port of San Francisco. Unfortunately it's going to the scrap yard this week because no museums we've tried are willing to come haul it away. boosts appreciated.

edit: Sorry folks, there was less time than I thought. It's already out the door this morning 😔

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Bob Tregilus

@nomi Three rail museums I'd check with are:

1) Northern Nevada Railway in Ely. They have a full operational machine shop and maintain their equipment onsite. They probably could use the machine.
https://nnry.com/

2) Laws Railroad Museum, near Bishop, California.
https://www.lawsmuseum.org/

3) Nevada State Railroad Museum, Carson City, Nevada. They have a lot of operating equipment and machine shop as well.
https://www.carsonrailroadmuseum.org/

Hope that helps!

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