Back in Steam B&H No. 11
The Everett Railroad joins the ranks of steam excursion railroads as No. 11 heads out of Hollidaysburg, Pa., with a test train of two covered hopper cars on October 11. No. 11 passed with flying colors and is now hauling passenger excursions out of Hollidaysburg on the weekends. The 2-6-0 Mogul was built by Alco for Cuban export, but instead was sold to the Naragansett Pier Railroad in 1923. It was later acquired by the Bath & Hammondsport in 1937, where it served until its retirement in 1949. Acquired for preservation in 1955, it went through a series of owners and was later purchased by the Everett Railroad in 2006.
PHOTO BY DUSTIN FAUST
STEAM AND PRESERVATION JEFFREY D. TERRY
McCloud No. 9 to Age of Steam
Former McCloud River 2-6-2 No. 9 has been acquired by Jerry Jacobsen’s Age of Steam Roundhouse and moved from its longtime home at North Lake, Wis., to Sugar Creek, Ohio. The logging Prairie was one of two built by Baldwin in January 1901 to serve Northern California’s McCloud Lumber Company via its common-carrier shortline, McCloud River Railroad. With 44-inch drive wheels, 16"x24" cylinders, slide valves, and a weight of 55 tons, they were designed for use on McCloud’s logging spurs, where grades were steep and curves were sharp. Originally wood burners, they were converted to oil firing in the 1920s. Both served the railroad faithfully for nearly three decades until larger locomotives were
purchased;
surplus, they spent much of the 1930s in storage at McCloud. In 1939, No. 9 was sold to California
short line Yreka Western. It joined No. 8 on the Amador Central in 1944, but its stay there was brief; in 1945 it was sold again and moved east to Idaho where it joined the roster of the Nezperce & Idaho, a 13-mile shortline that rambled through the hills between Craigmont and Nezperce.
Retired around 1952, No. 9 was acquired by the late Richard Hinebaugh in 1964, and in November 1967 was sent via flatcar to Wisconsin’s Mid-Continent Railway Museum where it was restored to
operation by Hinebaugh and his friends. It was first fired up in 1970 and ran a few times at MCRM during 1971.
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In the summer of 1972, No. 9 was moved to Hinebaugh’s Kettle Moraine tourist railroad, which operated over a rural four-mile stretch of ex-Milwaukee Road track at North Lake, near Milwaukee. Urban sprawl forced the Kettle Moraine out of business in 2001. Number 9 was stored indoors until August 2015, when it was trucked to Ohio to join the Age of Steam collection.
Replica Progressing V&T Lyon
On September 14, a major milestone was reached in the fabrication of Lyon, a full-sized working replica of a 22-ton 2-6-0, when the locomotive’s new boiler was mated with its frame, wheels, and cylinders at the Iowa Trolley Park of Clear Lake, Iowa. The crane for the move was provided at no cost by Tony’s Tire, Truck, and Auto Center of Clear Lake.
The original Lyon was built by H. J. Booth and Company (Union Iron Works) in 1869 and was the first locomotive purchased by Nevada’s fabled Virginia & Truckee; it was scrapped in the late 1890s. The Lyon replica has been under construction since the 1990s and is a project of the nonprofit Mason City Clear Lake Electric Railroad Historical Society, headed by Stan Gentry. The all-welded ASME boiler, with crown bars holding up the crown sheet, was partially fabricated by Strasburg Rail Road in the 1990s and recently finished by Kloke Locomotive Works of Elgin, Ill. It is designed to operate at 125 p.s.i. and will be fired by wood. The Iowa Trolley Park hopes to have the locomotive under steam by 2016. For
more info, and to donate to the project, visit
vtlyon.org.
Rock Island No. 1275 The Eldon Depot Museum of Eldon,
Iowa, has restored a former Santa
Fe GP7u to represent a Rock Island GP7. The unit was purchased from and refurbished by National Railway Equipment, which occupies the former Rock Island shops in Silvis, Ill. The unit was completed in August, and was to be shipped to Eldon in early October. At press time it was to be hauled via flatcar by BNSF to Agency, Iowa, and then trucked to the museum. The Eldon Depot Committee was formed in 2001 to save the town’s former CRI&P depot, which saw its last train on March 31, 1980. Members have refurbished the building and it now houses railroad artifacts and exhibits. In 2014, the museum began searching
for a locomotive to restore as a tribute to the Rock Island power that once frequented Eldon. With no original CRI&P units available, NRE offered the group former BNSF No. 3822, built as ATSF 2830 in December 1952, and recently retired by BNSF Railway. NRE restored the locomotive to represent Rock Island No. 1275; the number was decided upon by museum members (several are former CRI&P employees) that had fond memories of operating the original 1275. That unit was unique to the Rock; it was damaged in 1965 and rebuilt at Silvis with a GP20- style chopped nose and cab. Remarkably No. 1275 still exists, wearing the paint of former owner Iowa Interstate, on the Northern Lines in Minnesota. The “new”
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