Found this picture (below) posted on the internet. It was sitting on a flat car in Frisco, TX. Anyone know anything about it? Where's it going? Where did it come from? Etc?

Greg Schultz


greg@nospam.skittercreek.com

Believe this is ex-LS&I #19 recently sold by Grand Canyon after long being on display at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. I don't remember right know who the buyer was.

Found this picture (below) posted on the
> internet. It was sitting on a flat car in
> Frisco, TX. Anyone know anything about it?
> Where's it going? Where did it come from?
> Etc?

> Greg Schultz


tedloco@aol.com

> Believe this is ex-LS&I #19 recently
> sold by Grand Canyon after long being on
> display at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. I don't
> remember right know who the buyer was.

> Found this picture (below) posted on the

It is supposed to be displayed at Frisco, TX. It is former LS&I #19 which the Grand Canyon Railway had on display at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

don C.

milw261@sbcglobal.net

Is that Grand Canyon #18?



glueck@maine.edu

Steamlocomotive.com says it (19) is in canyon city Co at the canyon city and royal gorge.

> It is supposed to be displayed at Frisco,
> TX. It is former LS&I #19 which the
> Grand Canyon Railway had on display at the
> MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

> don C.

The loco was supposed to go to the CC&RGRR....but the deal fell through for one reason or another. Don't remember the details.

jasonsobczynski@yahoo.com

> Is that Grand Canyon #18?

No, it is former LS&I #19, sister to #18 and #20, which are still on the GC Rwy.

Don C.

milw261@sbcglobal.net

Understand the confusion, but any idea why the town (I'm assuming a Frisco town?) would want an LS&I engine for display is beyond me, given that there are Frisco engines around, unless they are intending on operation?! Did the LS&I 2-8-0's mimic something on the Frisco, i.e. like the G-3's on the Hocking Valley?

My regret that there are no LS&I engines displayed in LS&I towns is but a personal matter. ;-)

TJ

tjgaffney@phmuseum.org

IIRC, they just wanted an engine to display in front of their newly restored depot, and this one was made available to them.

I have gotten these sorts of requests in the past, but there are few engines just waiting to be hauled to Texas for display.

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a

> Understand the confusion, but any idea why
> the town (I'm assuming a Frisco town?) would
> want an LS&I engine for display is
> beyond me, given that there are Frisco
> engines around, unless they are intending on
> operation?! Did the LS&I 2-8-0's mimic
> something on the Frisco, i.e. like the G-3's
> on the Hocking Valley?

> My regret that there are no LS&I engines
> displayed in LS&I towns is but a
> personal matter. ;-)

> TJ


Surviving World Steam Locomotives
james@survivingworldsteam.com

James and all,

I think you are right. To most people an old steam engine is just like an old anything else. You can just pick one up anytime you want.

Here at Maritime, we are often get asked where can we get a "Tall Ship", Steam Tug Boat etc like the ones we display here. The answer is of course the reason that they are in a museum is that they are rare and valuable!

And they don't grow on trees! Neither do steam engines. Maybe a couple of locomotives will come home from Cuba; but that is another story.

Ted Miles


ted_miles@nps.gov

> Found this picture (below) posted on the
> internet. It was sitting on a flat car in
> Frisco, TX. Anyone know anything about it?
> Where's it going? Where did it come from?
> Etc?

> Greg Schultz

City of Frisco (hellish yuppie suburb of Dallas) bought it to turn into a Frisco engine. I tried to hook them up with Ted Leman's engine, and even put them in contact with Tulsa, so they would have a genuine article.

I was told that it was decided that authenticity wasn't that important. "an old train is just an old train."

They bought it because it was what the house fraus could find for sale on the computor.