Volunteers may move a historic steam locomotive to Route 66 Station park in the 3700 block of Southwest Boulevard in Tulsa later this month, according to the Tulsa World.
The operative word is “may,” because the group of railroad buffs has blown a number of self-imposed deadlines before.
Later this month, a steam locomotive, a passenger car and a caboose – all restored by Massey and a crew of volunteers – will be moved from the Holly Corp. refineries, where they are being stored, to the Route 66 Station.
To get there, the train will be pulled 2 1/2 miles west along railroad tracks before coming to a rest on the south side of Southwest Boulevard.
Getting the train to the north side of the boulevard, where the station is, will require shutting down the street and placing 300 feet of temporary track.
“We still have things to finish on all three,” Massey said. “Primarily, the interior of the passenger car and the caboose and the cab of the locomotive.”
The three units of the train include the Frisco 4500, a vintage steam locomotive built in 1942; the Murray Hill, a solarium lounge car built in 1929; and a vintage caboose that was built in the 1930s or 1940s as a boxcar.
The Route 66 Station is home to the commemorative 154-foot-tall Red Fork Centennial Oil Derrick. Other items planned for the park include oil-field pump jacks, a replica of the old Frisco Railroad Red Fork depot, a replica of an airport hangar, and stadium seating near the locomotive.