I understand that the Black Hills Central RR has returned No.110, a 2-6-6-2T to steam this winter. Does anyone have any pictures of this articulated under steam yet? Should be an interesting site to behold. Thanks in advance.

Rob Gardner

train@nls.net

Here is a recent photo of #110 that I received from the Black Hills Central via e-mail this week. They mentioned that more photos of 110 will be on their site (www.1880train.com) soon.

Jon Davis

> I understand that the Black Hills Central RR
> has returned No.110, a 2-6-6-2T to steam
> this winter. Does anyone have any pictures
> of this articulated under steam yet? Should
> be an interesting site to behold. Thanks in
> advance.

> Rob Gardner


Mallets in the Tall Timber

fokkerdr1@email.msn.com

Many thanks to Jon Davis for posting this photograph! The No. 110 has always been one of my favorite locomotives, and I remember as a kid climbing all over it when it was on display at the Heber Creeper depot in Heber City, Utah. When the 'Creeper (Wasatch Mountain Railway) had a hold of it, they used the 2-6-6-2T only as a parts source and static display. In fact, for 20-plus years it sat in a corner of the yard, without its saddle tanks and painted in a particular ugly shade of green. This changed around 1988 when the shop crew did a quickie cosmetic job, which included painting the engine black and installing a headlight (the original had vanished before the engine was moved to Heber). Incidentlly, The Rayonier (and before that, Weyerhauser) always had the headlight mounted on the top of the smokebox, but for some reason the Heber shop put the headlight in its current location above the front cylinders, which is historically incorrect. It looks as though the Black Hills Central has decided to keep the headlight in that location, which gives the engine quite a different appearance than it looked when on the Rayonier. I think the blue saddle tanks and white lettering are nice additions as well. To see how the No.110 looked at the beginning of the rebuild, see the May 2001 issue of Railfan & Railroad magazine.

Jeff Terry

jterry618@msn.com