ITG-Owned Locos - Irish Traction Group

Stored locos

Some locomotives in our collection very long-term restoration projects. It's better to have something saved rather than send them for scrap, and we do our best to preserve them for possible future restoration. Nobody in their right mind would scrap a rare Sulzer, for example! We hope that one day a project group will form with some additional skilled volunteers to take on some of these projects.

Some of our stored locos are simply there for spares, and will likely never be restored. Why do we keep whole locomotives? Just imagine the effort required to strip and store all the spares off a single GM loco, for now it's easier to leave them in situ until such time as they're needed.