Get the locomotive, and don't count on needing the steam generator.
Concentrate on getting the loco, before it gets to the scrapper, and the train it pulls will have the passenger power unit!
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According to the book "The American Locomotive Company - A Centennial Remembrance"... This locomotive is an ALCO MRS-1 built March - October of 1953. There were only 83 of them built for the US Army Transportation Corps and many were transfered to the US Navy such as this one.
ALCO was not interested in building these units but G.E. was and sub contracted ALCO to build them.
They have a Model 244 engine rated at 1,600hp. They were all equipped with a steam generator for heating internal components in cold weather operations. 20 of them worked for the Alaska RR.
They were spec'd to operate in temps from 40 below zero thru plus 125!
A second steam generator was added in units that worked passenger trains for heating the train.
INTERESTING STUFF - I Agree somebody should save this unit!
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