It's amazing to think that in countries where governments spend significant amounts of money on culture and history that you will find sites like those, but in the US, where culture and history don't seem to be high on the priority list of the government, everything railroad-related belongs to someone or some group.

I reported the above history of this ex-Southern 2-6-0 and figured that the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad was a forerunner of the Southern, which is how the little Mogul ended up in the Southern Railway system as its # 2100. Apparently this is not so! According to the Richard S. Simons/Francis H. Parker book "Railroads of Indiana", The E&TH was actually a forerunner of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad! It is true, that the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis ended up as part of the Southern but apparently the Cooke built 2-6-0 must have actually been sold by the E&TH to the LE&StL with the engine being absorbed into the Southern roster for a while before being unloaded on the Augusta Southern.

Which brings up another thought. I stated that if the locomotive could somehow be repatriated from Cuba back to the U.S. as an historic artifact, that the logical place for her was probably the museum in Spencer, NC. But considering her ties to Terre Haute, Indiana, maybe an alternative place for her would be the Wabash Valley Railroaders Museum in that city. She is small enough that she wouldn't overwhelm the WVRM limited property, and might be a nice little draw for the group there.

Les

The Smithsonian does run their John Bull under its own steam every 50 years, so there may be some hope for 1401