No. 9 All Steamed Up


Locomotive No. 9 steams away in Sheepscot Yard at the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum’s annual “Victorian Christmas” event on December 19, 2015. Built by the Portland Company in 1891, it is the oldest surviving Maine two- foot gauge locomotive. It served the Sandy River Railroad; the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes; the Kennebec Central; and finally the WW&F in a career that spanned more than 40 years. Saved from scrappers in the 1930s, this engine spent 50 years in a barn in Connecticut. She returned to Maine in 1995, and emerged from a nearly ten- year restoration program at the museum in December, making its first public runs during the Christmas event.


PHOTO BY KEVIN MADORE


STEAM AND PRESERVATION JEFFREY D. TERRY


Rare B&O Coal Hopper Preserved


A Baltimore & Ohio coal hopper that spent three decades in a scrapyard has been preserved in Chambersburg, Pa. The car, whose number is unknown, has been repainted and placed on display near the Chambersburg Rail Trail, thanks to the efforts of Randy Anderson and other local preservationists. It


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believed to be the final survivor of some 3,000 class W-2, W2-1, and W2B, coal hoppers that were built for B&O in the 1920s by Standard Steel Car. Its


survival was pure chance; the hopper was involved in a derailment in the 1960 at Sykesville, Pa., and was salvaged and taken to a scrapyard near Everett. Left upside-down in a swampy area, the scrapyard never got around to cutting it up (however, they did scrap its trucks; a replacement set was acquired prior to the car being put on display). The Kalathas family paid to have it relocated to its new display site, and it can now be seen along the trail near the Historic Ice Cream Station Restaurant in Chambersburg.


Electric City Restoring Scranton Transit 505


The Electric City Trolley Museum of Scranton, Pa., has initiated the restoration of Scranton Railway Company No. 505, one of ten “Electromobiles” built for the railway in 1929 by the Osgood Bradley Car Co. These cars served Scranton until 1954 when most were retired and


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scrapped; only No. 505 survived and was sold to the Rail City Museum and moved to Sandy Pond, N.Y., in the late 1950s. In the 1960s, it was acquired by Magee Transportation Museum in Pennsylvania, whose owner, Ed Blossom, planned to rebuild the car. Little progress was made before the museum was swamped by Hurricane Agnes in 1972. After two decades of outdoor storage, No. 505 ended up at Rockhill Trolley Museum in Orbisonia, Pa. The carbody, trucks, and stored parts were offered to the Electric City Trolley Museum Association, who brought the Electromobile back home to Scranton in 2012.


A “505 Committee” was formed three years ago to fund the estimated $350,000 needed to restore the car to operation, of which $120,000 has already been raised. In December, metal work on the carbody was started at Advanced Engineering Systems LLC of Mertztown, Pa. Despite its rough outward appearance, much of the original car is salvageable. When completed, No. 505 will be used for regular excursions at the Electric City museum, whose line includes the 4,747-foot Crown Avenue Tunnel on the former Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railroad (Laurel Line) right-of-way. To donate to No. 505’s restoration, visit www.ectma.org.


Baldwin Decapod to Age of Steam In December, Woodward Iron 2-10-0


No. 41 was moved from its longtime home at Wisconsin’s


Mid-Continent


Railroad Museum to the private Age of Steam Roundhouse at Sugar Creek, Ohio. Out of service for nearly 60 years,


the Decapod was purchased at auction by Jerry Jacobson in May 2015. The tender was moved by truck to Sugar Creek in November, and the locomotive, weighing 106 tons, was trucked from North Freedom to Rock Creek, Wis., where it was transloaded onto a flatcar for the trip to Ohio.


No. 41 is a Baldwin light 2-10-0, one of 22 built between 1924 and 1933, mostly for southern short lines. It was originally Alabama, Tennessee & Northern No. 401 and was delivered in 1928, the first of three light 2-10-0s purchased by the railroad. In the 1940s, AT&N sold No. 401 to Birmingham Rail & Locomotive, which reconditioned the Decapod and resold it in 1948 to Woodward Iron. Numbered 41, it spent the last years of its working life in Jefferson County, Ala., shuffling iron ore between Woodward’s mines and blast furnaces. In tired condition, No. 41 was retired in June 1959 and donated to Mid-Continent in 1965, becoming the largest locomotive in its collection. It never operated there, instead being relegated to static display. In 2015, No. 41 was deemed surplus by Mid-Continent and was sold, along with several other pieces of equipment, to raise funds for the ongoing restoration and rebuilding of


Chicago & North Western 4-6-0 No. 1385.


Anacortes No. 1 Steams Again


Anacortes Railway 0-4-4T No. 1 was fired up and operated at Anacortes, Wash., for the first time in 16 years on November 30. Today owned by the Anacortes Museum, the 18-inch-gauge locomotive, which was constructed by


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