EMD E8 - Surviving Examples

Surviving Examples

It is estimated that 58 E8s have survived into preservation. A notable example is the former NYC 4085, preserved at the New York Central Railroad Museum, which has the distinction of having been the lead locomotive on the final eastbound 20th Century Limited. Another surviving E8 is operated by the Midland Railway, in Baldwin City, Kansas. Privately owned, this unit is ex-Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad E8A #652 and is used for special events. NYC 4096, recently restored from scrap in the past, is also currently on display. New York Central 4097, privately owned, is on display at Merli Mfg Co, Duanesburg, New York. Southern Railway E8A unit #6900 is operational at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, North Carolina. It pulled the original Southern Crescent consist. Southern #6901 is on display in Duluth, GA, at the Southeastern Railway Museum. Another Southern Railway E8 #6913 is currently being restored at the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum in Oak Ridge, TN for use on their Southern excursion train. And yet another, Southern #6914, is under restoration at Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. Of the aforementioned units owned by Conrail, three were saved after their freight-service retirement and went on to be refurbished by the Juniata Locomotive Shops in Altoona, PA for use as Conrail's Office Car Special (OCS) until the merger of 1999. One unit went to CSX, and two were sold off to Bennett Levin, CEO of the Juniata Terminal Company, where they have been meticulously overhauled and painted up as twin Pennsylvania Railroad E8's. In June 2008, two authentic New York Central E8's units (4080A & 4068A) were brought to the Medina Railroad Museum in Western New York. They were to be used on train excursions. However, a few mechanical problems arose which sidelined them across from the museum. Reportedly the locomotives have been blue-carded as of September 20, 2011.