Barn Finds can Still Happen!

ted66 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2022 9:26 pm

I love the barn find that has a happy ending. The family farm at West Thompson, Connecticut held the WW&F #9 ex Sandy River #6 for decades. Miss Alice Ramsdell protected the treasure all her life, including going to court a couple of times. She was Charter Member #1 of the WW&F Railway Museum, before her passing.

The WW&F people have installed a new boiler and restored the Portland Company locomotive of 1891. Today she is steaming on the re-built WW&F right of way.

While not a barn find; the volunteers are building a replica of WW&F #7; a Baldwin 2-4-4 with two-foot gauge of course.

Does anyone know of a locomotive that sat in a barn longer than from 1937 to 1995?

Ted Miles, WW&F Life Member, Build 11 Contributor

EJ Berry · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2022 9:51 pm

Jack Carling of Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority found a 1903 Scranton trolley in a restaurant that was closing. It will be running in a year or two.

Phil Mulligan

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2022 10:08 pm

Another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jSP0iqZ27s

Quote:

In 1929 two former Rhode Island Company Trolley Cars were retired and sold off after being used in Woonsocket, RI. These cars were then set up as a diner, called the Purple Cat, which expanded sometime after. This expansion added a structure around the cars covering them up from view. Now the diner has been closed for years and the structure is being torn down. This demolition uncovered the cars after about 75 years. The cars are planned to be saved and repurposed as part of an antique shop on the former diner site. This video shows the exposed cars as well as demolition work that is currently in progress.

Filmed at 11 Money Hill Rd., Chepachet, RI on March 12, 2022