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daveinstoke · Post by **daveinstoke** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:12 pm

How many of these Loco's still exist in the States. It would be interesting to see one with cowcatcher & bell. Which RR used them etc, perhaps this is a question for Richard.
Dave.

Post by **richard** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:07 pm

I don't know!

I do know there's one in Anchorage. I had some emails up that way from someone who was building a model with some questions about the frames. He ended up going down and investigating for himself.

I think most went for export during the War, usually by the US Army Transport Corps? I know they're scattered across Europe - I hear there are a few in Greece in deteroriating condition.

There have never been any RTR models in N (yes, I've looked!), and the only HO model I know of is made by a UK kit manufacturer (DJH) - which supports the 'little used in the US' hypothesis.

Richard

Post by **richard** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:12 pm

Google comes up with the following:

http://www.gregoriou.itgo.com/custom4.html
"a few came back to the US"

There are some more hits, but they're very sketchy and usually refer to my S160 page (typically with an out of date URL!).

Richard

Wandering1500 · Post by **Wandering1500** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:11 pm

Some cracking places to sample them in the UK at the moment....Churnet Valley's 5197 is incredible

David

Colombo · Post by **Colombo** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:26 pm

Some years ago we organised a holiday in the Southern States that took in Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee. I could not resist a trip to Chattanooga to ride on the Tennessee Valley Railroad behind no.610, built in 1952 and arguably the newest standard gauge steam loco in the States. This loco is a Baldwin (I think?) and a 2-8-0 and uses standard parts. The Engineer agreed with me that the S160 was almost exactly the same loco, but with a cut down cab and boiler mountings.

I have found the following site which shows up how much like an S160 no. 610 is. http://railga.com/oddend/tvrr.html

On the same holiday, we stayed in a hotel in North Charleston that gave us a grand stand view of a marshalling yard in which trains were being switched all night.

Colombo

Post by **richard** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:59 pm

Here's another Baldwin 2-8-0. A WW1-era Baldwin "General Pershing" class:

http://www.winwaed.com/rail/texas/state_railroad.shtml

I took the photos last May when the Missus took me out to East Texas for a weekend birthday trip. The Texas State Railroad is actually owned by the State. It was originally operated by the prison system, but is now the "longest and thinnest" State Park.

We had some really nasty storms that morning. The train was about an hour late starting whilst they cleared the larger trees from the line. Even then, we had to stop 8 or so times for the train crew to get out and shift large branches.

Nearly made it up to Chattanooga this Christmas. We thought about driving to my in-laws in Georgia, and taking a circuituous route up via Tenessee, and returning by New Orleans. Well New Orleans got cancelled pretty early on, but I was thinking of hiring a car and it soon became economic to fly instead.
I did get to see Tennessee (along with both Carolinas and probably Alabama as well) - whilst hiking in the Georgian Appalachians.

Richard