Train Derailment Experiments, Claiborne Polk Military Railroad - 1944 United States Army

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fAnkYRw8Bk



-Hudson

Hmm, Still looking for evidence this locomotive was destroyed or scrapped. LS&I #32 is an enduring mystery to me.

Seems these are two old boxcars. https://www.google.com/maps/@30.6303752,-86.4064939,83m/data=!3m1!1e3

Robert

Possibly boxcars, but I suspect they are just office trailers. In the satellite image, notice the stairways leading into them. In each case, the stairway on the north end is closer to the side than the stairway on the south end. This matches the image found here (scroll down slightly):

https://www.modspace.com/en/mobile-offices

Additionally, the northernmost trailer appears to be abandoned and rotting apart, showing its roof supports. A steel boxcar isn't likely to look the same.

Looks like an LS&I consolidation to me...

https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/139770

It's LS&I alright. I've heard from an anonymous person via email this engine still exists on the base. I find this claim highly unlikely though.

I would still like to see that photo that showed the engine being blown to bits the Eglin museum once had?

Robert

Which Eglin museum? Every museum and library I have contacted is unaware of the photo's existence.

It's like the photo has disappeared...

The only info I have came from a member here who claimed to see such a photo at the base museum.

Robert