We heard for several years there was a Clincfield 2-8-2 used as a stationary boiler in Alcoa, Tennessee. When Mr. Moore rebuilt the little Number 1, he actually tried to find it. I guess he didn't.

My first job was making milkshakes at the Biff-Burger in Kingsport, Tennessee. 90 cents and hour and all the grease I could carry home in my clothes!

http://www.amazon.com/Steam-Diesel-Albert-J-Churella/dp/0691027765/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194901206&sr=8-2

You bet I want a copy, I can read forever without a stupid activation.

'd pay a C-note, but not what's half a mortage payment!

If he still has any interest, tell him to get in touch with DLM in Switzerland. For $40M I'd bet they build him pretty much anything he'd want, with no lead paint, porous pot metal, or otherwise sub-standard work.

I must come clean and confess that I have been the Trustee of a secret Endowment left by a very wealthy deceased senior executive of the NYC RR which has been funding the secure storage of the one NYC 6000 class loco. that was saved. He arranged for it to be sent to a just shuttered shippers building for secure indoor storage and shortly thereafter purchased the bldg. and further secured it from outside viewability/intrusion.
His instructions via the endowment (which pays to maintain the bldg.,pay the taxes etc.) are that the loco. shall stay sequestered until its 75th. birthday at which point it is to be restored to operating condition and made available for public enjoyment.
He was of the opinion that the 6000 class engines were the finest steam locomotives ever produced and he was determined to see that one survived and was later used for the public good!! Thanks to good investments of the Endowments principal there's more than enough funds to pay for her restoration and operation.
As the 75th. anniversary is now not too far away I felt it was permissable to break the news in this appropriate thread!!!
Ross Rowland

Ross, you're either 5 months early or 7 months late with this announcement (which I really wish were true!)

Anyone here remember when Model Railroader magazine had their 50th anniversary? The premise was that Al Kalmbach had a friend who, upon his death, left the staff and enginehouse in the sticks. Turns out, there was a Hiawatha inside. They restored it and ran it all over the country. It was a really neat premise, photographed on model RR layoutsd all over the country, they even made a diorama of the weed-covered enginehouse with a rusted MLW #1 sitting inside...

Hey Gary and Sandy,

There are currently operating Kenney Burger rests in Buena Vista and Lexington. If either had old equipment, I'd bet it would be Lex. BV is all new. The old one got pretty wet every 15 years or so.

Mike

Yep, I've got that issue of MR somewhere. It was a fun idea and well-presented. I would have chosen a MILW F7 streamlined Hudson though.

There is a Morehead and North Fork 0-6-0 still sitting in the Morehead, KY enginehouse. Along with two Baldwin Road Switchers.

About 1984, after seeing a 1955 photo of a PRR K-4 steam loco being used as a stationary boiler at the Woodbine, N.J. State Hospital, we rushed down there to find that the railroad and hospital were abandoned, the siding was still there with weeds growing, but no engine remained!

You all do know that all Seven of the Presumed Scrapped K-28's off the D&RGW Narrow Gauge still run today on the Chili Line...though all the trackage has been relocated to secret tunnels between Los Alamos and Sandia Labs...

I thought that equipment was moved to the Ultra-Super Secret complex underneath Dulce.

Folks,

And then there is the story of the narrow gauge engine that was in a barn in backwoods Connecticut.

But this one was really true!

The WW&F #9 spent 60 years in a barn in Northwestern Connecticut. In 1993 it went back to Maine on the back of a truck and you can see some of it today at the WW&F Museum in Alna, Maine

They are building a new boiler and frame for the Portland built locomotive so it can run on home rails again. Built in 1890, she is the oldest of the 5 surviving two foot engines.

Ted Miles

I KNOW that Ross is kidding; but if you think about it, that is basically what Howard Hughes did with the "Spruce Goose"; which makes me wonder if there were any other crazy millionaire business owners who did the same thing.

There is the old one of the 4-4-0 in a barn near Circleville, Oh. Heard this first about 20 years ago from friend in college. It seems to come up now and then but has never been "found".