Western colors of bright maroon and red with gold striping. It’s scheduled for wheel work in 2012, but should be back on-line by mid-summer. Two Alco locomotives see frequent
use. Number 1098 is an Alco S-2 built for the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis in 1942. Later sold to RELCO, it was used at a grain elevator at Deni- son, Iowa, before coming to B&SV in the late 1990s. With Union Pacific’s permission, it was painted in UP colors and given the fictitious number “1098” to commemorate the date of its restora- tion, October 1998. Alco RS-1 244, built in 1951, is paint-
ed in the blue and gray colors of the Minneapolis & St. Louis. It started life in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula work- ing for Lake Superior & Ishpeming, and in 1967 went to Calumet & Hecla. Later, it switched cars for Continental Grain Company at an elevator in Pick- ering, Iowa, which is where the B&SV found it in the mid-1990s. After being shipped to Boone, it sat on static dis- play for many years before being refur- bished and repainted into M&StL col- ors in 2008. Why M&StL? “Back in 1893, our railroad started down at the bottom of the valley and went up the west hill, where it interchanged with the Minneapolis & St. Louis,” Steven- son says. “So that road is a part of our history here.” The blue paint was one of nine colorful schemes worn by M&StL’s fleet of 35 RS-1s. Another operator favorite is FP9A
6540. It was built for Canadian Nation- al in 1958 by General Motors Diesel in London, Ontario. Used mainly in pas- senger service, it was transferred to VIA Rail in 1978 and was re-engined in 1983. Retired in 1991 after 33 years in service, 6540 was purchased by a pri- vate owner and displayed at a railroad museum in Atchison, Kan., before be- ing acquired by the B&SV in 2002. To- day it sports a C&NW-inspired yellow and green scheme, and is normally as-
TOP: The Iowan steams upgrade at Pilcher’s with an excursion returning to Boone on June 2, 2007. Number 8419 was the last of just over 1900 “Jian She” class 2-8-2s produced in China between 1957 and 1988. They were de- signed for use in main line service, pulling both freight and passenger trains, and thus were equipped with large boilers, mechanical stokers, and feedwater heaters. Of the six Chi- nese steam locomotives currently in North America, 8419 is the only example of the JS type. RIGHT: Crab Orchard & Egyptian 17 “steams” during a night photo session at Boone on October 3, 2010. The locomotive operated on CO&E until 1986, when its dry pipe failed. It was acquired by B&SV in 1987, and plans were made to return it to service. Unfortunately, further inspections revealed other significant problems, and it was instead made into a static display. LIGHTING BY CHRIS GUSS; SPECIAL EFFECTS BY JEFF TERRY
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