Display to be Renovated Milwaukee Road
The city council of Cresco, Iowa, has been discussing ways to raise money for a cos- metic restoration of Milwaukee Road FP7 No. 101A. The streamlined diesel locomo- tive has been on display at Beadle Park, along with a boxcar, fl atcar, and caboose, since 1985. This photo from 2012 shows the current state of the park display. One idea proposed was to sell or scrap the boxcar to pay for a repainting of the diesel.
PHOTO BY JEFFREY D. TERRY
STEAM AND PRESERVATION JEFFREY D. TERRY
Minnesota & Western Collection Dispersed
Just before the New Year, Minneapolis & St. Louis 2-8-0 No. 471 was moved from its long- time home at Annandale, Minn., to a new dis- play site in Janesville, Minn. Owned by Don Borneke Construction, Inc., it was formerly part of the now-defunct Minnesota & Western Railroad Museum, a longtime project of upper Midwest railroad preservationist Don Lind. The Consolidation is notable for being one of only two surviving steam locomotives from the M&StL, the other being sister 457 now exhibited under cover at Mason City, Iowa. No. 471 was built by Baldwin in December
1910 for M&StL subsidiary Iowa Central, and in 1943 it was sold to the C.H. Klein Brick Company of Chaska, Minn. After retirement it was stored outdoors and was purchased by Lind in 1967. It was later moved to his pri- vate railroad museum at Annandale in 1973, where he and a group of volunteers did some restoration work and repainting. Unfortu- nately, Lind’s hopes of establishing an operat- ing railroad museum never materialized, and by the 1990s No. 471 had fallen into disrepair. After Lind passed away in 2013, the Colfax Railroad Museum of Colfax, Wis., led an ef- fort to preserve and salvage what remained of Lind’s defunct museum while working closely with Lind’s relatives. A number of small ar- tifacts, including a large collection of Lionel trains, have been sold to raise funds to help with the disposition of the collection. Some of the money was used by the Colfax museum to acquire and move Lind’s other steam locomo- tive, a 1911 Porter 2-6-2T that was built as Coronet Phosphate No. 5 (see February 2015 RAILNEWS). Lind acquired the tank engine in 1967 and temporarily stored it at the Iron Horse Central Railroad Museum near Lind- strom, Minn., before moving it to land along the Soo Line railroad tracks near Annandale for restoration. The locomotive was missing several critical parts by the time it arrived in Minnesota; Lind replaced some with parts
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salvaged from Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-8-4 No. 221, which was scrapped in Two Harbors, Minn., in 1967. No. 5 was moved to Colfax on December 30, 2014, the same day M&StL No. 471 was moved to Janesville. The Colfax museum plans to cosmetically restore the tank engine for display. Besides
the steam locomotives, Lind
amassed an impressive collection of equip- ment and artifacts. Unfortunately much of it fell into severe disrepair due to years of ne- glect. A Milwaukee Road reefer was relocated to Colfax, while a trio of Soo Line cabooses were acquired by a private owner in Rogers, Minn. Parts were obtained by the Minneso- ta Streetcar Museum from a wooden Twin City Lines streetcar deemed beyond repair. Additional items from derelict passenger cars (including a number of Barney & Smith parts) were salvaged by the Mid-Continent Railroad Museum. An assortment of freight and passenger cars, including a former Soo Line steam locomotive tender and the cab and short hood from Soo Line RS-3 371, have been obtained by the Iron Horse Central Railroad Museum.
Santa Fe 643 Moved to Oklahoma City
On January 2 the Oklahoma Railroad Muse- um moved former Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 2-8-0 No. 643 from the Oklahoma State Fair Park to the museum’s complex at 3400 Northeast Grand Boulevard in Oklahoma City. The Consolidation, which was donated by the fair commission, had been the center- piece of the fair’s Travel & Transportation exhibit since being gifted to Oklahoma City by the AT&SF in 1953. It is in excellent con- dition, having been displayed under a protec- tive shelter during its time on display. The lo- comotive had to be removed as part of a major upgrade and improvement project now under- way at the fair park. The museum was also given a former Frisco caboose and AT&SF handcar that were displayed with the 2-8-0. Number 643 started life in 1879 as the 4-4-0 H.C. Harden, AT&SF No. 73, which was
built by the Hinkley Locomotive Works. In 1897 some of the components of No. 73 were utilized by the Santa Fe’s Cleburne Shops to construct an entirely new 80-ton 2-8-0, No. 933, which was fitted with 57-inch drivers and 20×28" cylinders; in 1900 No. 933 was renumbered 643. After retirement, on April 13, 1953, it became the first steam locomotive donated for preservation by AT&SF. In order to reach the museum, No. 643 was
trucked through downtown Oklahoma City under police escort (the smokestack was re- moved for clearance purposes). It is now safe- ly stored under cover in the museum’s shop, and volunteers are hard at work cleaning and repainting the locomotive for exhibit. There are currently no plans for an operational res- toration.
Besides No. 643, the Oklahoma Railroad Museum rosters an impressive collection of Sooner State railroad motive power, includ- ing Rock Island RS-1 No. 743, Burlington Northern F9A 814 (painted in Frisco colors), AT&SF FP45 No. 90, and Oklahoma Gas & Electric (US Army) 0-6-0T No. 5.
L&N 2132 to Corbin
The community of Corbin, Ky., is working to bring former Louisville & Nashville 0-8-0 No. 2132 to the Corbin Railroad Museum, sched- uled to open in May 2015 in the former L&N passenger station. The museum is a project of the Corbin Tourism and Convention Commis- sion, the L&N Historical Society, CSX Trans- portation, and Eastern Kentucky University. Locomotive 2132 is one of only three sur- viving L&N steam locomotives. The 110-ton switcher was built by the railroad at its South Louisville Shops in March 1922 and is known to have worked in and around Corbin during its service life. In 1951 it was sold to Gulf Power and moved to Sneads, Fla., for service at a power plant. Through the efforts of the mayor of Bainbridge, the 0-8-0 was preserved and moved to Earl May Boat Basin Park for display the in the early 1980s, despite it hav- ing no connection to the community; it was later joined by an L&N caboose. Although it’s
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