Page 3.

the Tioga Central.

The Tioga Central began on September 15, 1984, as an excursion railroad based out of the
Tioga Transportation Museum in Flemingville, NY.

It then also began freight operations, and moved to Owego, in 1987.

In 1992 it left Owego, was idle for two years, then in 1994 started up again in Wellsboro, PA
where it continues to operate passenger excursions today.

In 2007 the Tioga Central and the Wellsboro & Corning were both bought by The Miles Group.
the new owners plan to continue Tioga Central excursion trains into the future.

This roster will include both the Owego & Wellsboro locations, since both locations
share the same locomotives.

(see page 2 for a complete history and timeline)
 

A note about the roster data on these pages..the individual locomotive data sections below are all .gif images!
not text..I made the page this way because the rosters are built and maintained in excel,
and excel is a nightmare to convert to HTML code..it makes a bloated mess of a webpage..
so I simply do screen captures and convert my rosters to images to insert into the webpage!
much easier, neater, and makes a much smaller (in filesize) webpage. but! the problem with that
is there is no real text to be copied or searched! So I converted it all to one text page, which you can
see here. feel free to copy and use this data in any way you wish..I dont claim to "own" historic data! ;)
I myself gathered it from dozens of different sources to make these rosters as complete and detailed as possible.
Sources are listed on the last page.

thanks,
Scot
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Today, No. 506 remains the only 1976 Bicentennial locomotive still wearing its 1976
bicentennial paintscheme! Yes, the blue was given a fresh coat, but the striping and the 
red paint was never replaced, and the overall scheme (apart from the lettering) remains
original to the D&H bicentennial scheme first applied in 1975!

No. 506 was one of eight D&H RS3's rebuilt into chop-nosed RS3u units by Morrison-Knudsen
in 1975-1976. Today 506 is the only survivor of the eight.
506 (as number 1976) was also one of two D&H bicentennial units, the other being GE U23B 1776.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

In the 24 year history, so far, (1984 - 2008) of the Tioga Central, 
Six locomotives have been on the roster, all Alcos:

Alco S2      No. 14
Alco RS1    No. 47
Alco RS1    No. 59
Alco RS1    No. 62
Alco RS1    No. 240
Alco RS3m No. 506

Only one of the six (No. 59) didnt make the jump from Owego to Wellsboro.
Today (2008) all six still exist! Five units in Wellsboro, and number 59 in New Jersey.

Photos show that the reporting marks of the original Tioga Central in Owego were TCRX,
and the reporting marks of the current Tioga Central in Wellsboro are TIOC.
But from my perspective, they are the same railroad, just in two different locations.
Perhaps technically in my roster above TIOC 59 should be called TCRX 59, since No. 59
never made it to Wellsboro.

The reporting marks TCRX now belong to the Tennessee Central Railway Museum.
 

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