Apparently, the Colebrookdale Railroad (well, it doesn't really exist yet) is interested in the number 19 according to this crowd-source fundraising campaign:

https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/bri ... ommunities

I didn't try to research the two coaches that they are looking at though.


Mr. Guest is really working hard on trying to get this tourist railroad started:
http://www.colebrookdalerailroad.com/

I am definitely interested, considering that I live less than ten miles from where it would be.

Informed sources suggest that there are multiple liens against No 19, and it is not clear that a sheriff's auction will clear them. It is a nightmare of Federal railroad law, California law and probably some laws not understood by anyone...

Sources suggest that while the locomotive has been operated recently, and currently holds a boiler permit, there are mechanical issues and boiler issues which could prove expensive.

Several responsible parties who I know have looked at the locomotive, had lawyers look at the liens, and have decided not to bid on what would likely become a legal nightmare, with expensive consequences... both legal and mechanical costs...

Reports suggest that the sheriff's auction has been delayed, while issues are being resolved.

This is a case where I might be suspicious of anyone saying that this locomotive is a viable purchase... they have likely not done due diligence... I would ask a lot of questions before buying in...

Randy

I am a Director of the Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust.  Thank you for mentioning our Crowdtilt campaign.  See it for yourself at http://tilt.tc/OYIf.   Nathaniel started it for us, but we are the sponsoring organization.

We are raising funds for a variety of equipment items.  A steam locomotive is, for our railroad and the story it seeks to tell, a Holy Grail.  The Colebrookdale connects some of the oldest iron-making sites of the early American Industrial Revolution.  Among them, the Pine Iron Works, located about mid-route, once produced locomotive boiler steel.  Certainly, a steam locomotive, perhaps the ultimate expression of an industrial America alive and in moving ahead, can give visceral impact to the narrative our route has to tell.  

However, we are also actively pursuing other equipment essential to our operation, including passenger cars and a diesel. 

The Crowdtilt campaign we’re using as one means to raise funds for equipment needs is a unique one.  Unless the tilt amount is met, no funds are collected from the would-be donors.  The effect is that everyone who gives knows that if they give, they’ll be giving to a successful campaign. Crowdtilt campaigns are brief; this one ends on November 29. 

The 19 is certainly a locomotive of interest for us—and apparently, lots of others! The full story is that there are a number of locomotives in our scope, but each requires fundraising in one form or another. 

We hope you will consider supporting the Trust and its mission, either through the Crowdtilt campaign or by becoming a member.
 
The Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust seeks to be a catalyst for community and economic development in Southeastern Pennsylvania through the preservation and interpretation of the historic, cultural, and natural heritage of the Middle Schuylkill Region, birthplace of the American iron industry.

I'm going to bump this thread since I just noticed the Yreka Western now appears to be under the control of RailMark. Not sure when that happened.

The link shows B. Allen Brown as President and Court Hammond as Vice President. Considering the "colorful" history the two have independently of one another it should be an interest place to watch for a while.


http://www.rail-road.com/?contact


Does anyone have any info?

If you want to observe a lot of contentiousness regarding the persons you mention check out this thread on the Altamont Press forum, suffice it to say that most think it is some kind of scam and that it will end badly:

http://www.altamontpress.com/discussion ... msg-146762

In regard to #19, the Railmark website you linked to says (under "history") it was sold in October of last year but not who bought it, but the above thread (and it was too much for me to make it completely through) says that JJJ of Age of Steam was interested in buying it but that it is still apparently there.

According to his own website, it says Jerry Joe Jacobson has acquired #19.

http://www.ageofsteamroundhouse.com/

The official press release

I read the other day that preparation work is currently underway to move the #19 via flatcar to Ohio. Can anyone provide verification?

Court Hammond has been cooperating with the move. He recently returned a number of items belonging to the #19. Several parts that were removed from the engine during the last repairs mad to her have been reattached.
Jerry J. is paying to return the YW diesel to operation so it can move #19 down to Montague for the loading onto flat cars for the trip to Ohio.

Martin

Thanks, Martin!

You weren't kidding! Contentiousness may be an understatement. Those guys didn't even mention Railmark's misadventures in Florida with its failure to pay for the the tourist operation on FCEN or all of the fires and legal trouble there and Canada with the attempt to fleece the Canadians on the Algoma Central operation.

Interestingly in early 2010 Railmark was claiming at that time that it owned the YW.

The sad thing is the YW seems like it would make decent self-sustaining tourist/freight railroad. Nothing to do with a tourist railroad is ever a gold mine but that one seems like it would be a shallower money pit than most.

A photograph of #19 atop KRL 701223 at Millersburg, Oregon has been posted to railpictures:
Jeremiah Lietke photograph of Yreka Western #19 on April 7, 2017

Any more recent news on this engine's cross-country trip?

Tom

Here is a video of it going through Chesterton, IN on NS April 27 (starting at around .50):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja5OHxSEgL0