Talk:Great Western 90

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90 isn't under 1472 overhaul.[edit]

Please contact the railroad to discuss 90's current disposition. 90 is operational but in storage to conserve its operating days before its 1472 SDI. This is information I got directly from their trainmaster. None of the sources listed verify the Wiki is correct.

72.95.19.35 (talk) 01:40, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever information you received directly from the trainmaster is not usable on Wikipedia. All information on Wikipedia must be based on published reliable sources. See WP:V and WP:RS. You will need to find a published source for this information. CodeTalker (talk) 00:27, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Read sources #9 and #11. 72.95.19.35 (talk) 00:31, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Per source #9:

No. 90, a 1924 Baldwin 2-10-0. No. 90 has 75 days remaining on its 1,472-day certification before a federally mandated inspection is required, and is expected to handle Christmas-train service before going down for overhaul.

Per source #11:

One of those, No. 90 (Baldwin, 1924) is due to go down soon for its federal 1,472-day boiler inspection.

@611fan2001: can you comment on this? In Special:Diff/1165992600/1166908250 you added the statement that "In April 2023, No. 90 was taken out of service for its Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) 1,472 day inspection and overhaul", but the three sources that follow that statement were all published before April 2023 (and in fact existed in the article before your change), and they don't seem to support the statement. CodeTalker (talk) 00:54, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see No. 90 operating today via Virtual Railfan camera. 611fan2001 (talk) 00:57, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Is that is all the support you have? The lack of something being visible in Virtual Railfan Camera certainly cannot be considered sufficient sourcing to make a definitive statement that the locomotive was taken out of service for a certain reason on a certain date. CodeTalker (talk) 01:26, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The sentence should simply come out; it's not substantiated in reliable sources and if it were it's trivial. Mackensen (talk) 01:11, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I know that! But I can't find any sources of No. 90 being prepared to be taken out of service in late 2023 or early 2024. 611fan2001 (talk) 01:30, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@CodeTalker @Mackensen @611fan2001

Since 90 has now been operating for the last two days and scheduled to continue as such, can we finally strike the inaccurate information from this article regarding it being down for a 1472 or in storage and move on with our lives until someone can provide a source for this engine being in any state other than operational? 2600:4040:B5FC:FE00:A1BD:8544:152D:30FF (talk) 02:50, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the claim. None of the three sources substantiate it. Mackensen (talk) 11:54, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The model that 90 was based on has got its own Wikipedia article: Baldwin Class 12-42-F[edit]

Proof: Baldwin Class 12-42-F 118.210.56.198 (talk) 10:39, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This means we can add links to link it up to the article based on the Baldwin Class 12-42-F 118.210.56.198 (talk) 10:40, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]