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Lehigh & New England Alco S2 No. 611 has toiled at a grain elevator in Indiana since the 1980s (seen here in at Emporia, Ind., in 2011). The sole survivor of the LNE diesel fl eet, it was recently purchased by the Lehigh & New England Historical Society. Working in partnership with the Lehigh Valley Chapter NRHS, both groups are raising $60,000 to transport the locomotive east to the Allentown & Auburn Railroad in Pennsylvania. Because the unit is equipped with friction bearing trucks, the locomotive must be moved on a heavy-duty fl at, increasing the cost of transport.


PHOTO BY KERMIT GEARY, JR.


identical sister Tahoe, spent much of its working life in California on the shores of Lake Tahoe. Its first owner was Carson & Tahoe, which logged the area around the 2-6-0’s namesake town of Glenbrook. After the area became logged out in 1899, Glenbrook was put to work by Lake Tahoe Railway & Transportation Company in passenger service between Tahoe City and Truckee. It was last steamed in 1925, and after being in storage in Tahoe City for over a decade was sold in 1936 to the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad of Grass Valley, Calif., which used it as a parts source for sister Tahoe (now preserved as NCNG No. 5 in Nevada City, Calif.). In 1942, Glenbrook was purchased by


the heirs of the Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Company. Its missing parts were gathered up and replaced, and the engine was repainted and donated to the State of Nevada. For the next 40 years it sat outside the Carson City Mint as one of the displays in the courtyard of the Nevada State Museum. In 1981, deteriorated due to years of exposure, Glenbrook was moved to the Nevada State Railroad Museum where it was fully dismantled for a full-up restoration. Unfortunately, the project ran into trouble when a mistake with the dimensions of Glenbrook’s replacement boiler put the project on indefinite hold. The locomotive then sat in storage until 2010 when the restoration resumed after the museum received a quarter-million- dollar grant from the E. L. Wiegand Foundation of Reno. Unlike many other surviving locomotives from the 1870s, a surprising amount of Glenbrook was found to be original. Therefore it was decided to return the 2-6-0 its original 1875


appearance, which included rebuilding the original boiler and removing air brake equipment added in 1899. The tender received a new wooden frame and the cistern was taken back to its Baldwin factory appearance and lettering (surprisingly, it’s the original tank). Despite it being a freight engine, Glenbrook is a rolling showpiece with lavish striping, decoration, and polished brass. Additionally, the 2-6-0 is equipped with working crosshead pumps just as it was in 1875. A Nevada treasure, Glenbrook has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1981. During the unveiling ceremony on


May 23, the restored Glenbrook was christened by former Nevada First Lady Bonnie Bryan. The engine then made periodic runs on NSRM property throughout the weekend alongside V&T 4-6-0 No. 25 and 4-4-0 Inyo, also built by Baldwin in 1875. The museum’s trackage at its Carson City has been dual-gauged to accommodate Glenbrook and visiting narrow gauge locomotives.


Trainset to Wisconsin Columbia Star


The locomotives and passenger cars formerly used by the Columbia Star Dinner Train of Columbia, Mo., have been acquired by the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad (WGN). Owned by the Vreeland family, the railroad operates excursions and dinner trains out of Trego, Wis., and contract freight service over CN’s Hayward Branch line. The Columbia Star equipment includes a pair of ex-Great Northern F7s painted in Wabash colors; the train ran


at Columbia from 2011 until 2014, and before that served as the Grand Traverse Dinner Train out of Traverse City, Mich. The acquisition will allow WGN to expand its excursion train options; it’s anticipated that the F7s could also see limited freight service alongside WGN’s ex-Chicago & North Western F7 No. 423.


Hocking Valley No. 3


Ohio’s Hocking Valley Scenic Railroad reached a significant milestone on May 9 when 0-6-0 No. 3 was fired up at HVSR’s Nelsonville shop. The 46-ton switch engine, which was donated to Hocking Valley in 1982, has been undergoing extensive restoration since 2003. Nearly all the major work necessary to return it to service has been performed by volunteers. No. 3 was constructed by Baldwin


in 1920 for the Beech Bottom Power Company of West Virginia, and later migrated to the Midwest, becoming Ohio Power Company No. 3. After its donation the locomotive spent many years as a static display, and was nearly derelict when the decision was made to return it to operation 14 years ago. Since then its boiler, cab, tender, and running gear have been extensively rebuilt. As of this writing Hocking Valley


hopes to place No. 3 into regular service sometime this summer, which would return steam to HV for the first time since 1996, when its ex-Lake Superior & Ishpeming 2-8-0 No. 33 was retired (and later sold to Jerry Jacobsen’s Age of Steam Roundhouse collection). Once it enters service, No. 3 will be the only regularly operating standard gauge steam locomotive in the state of Ohio.


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