A caption for an article on this topic in flimisies includes the following quote:

One of the engines of the “Dinkey” rail line sits at an engine house in Ames.

What engine is referred to here?

Wesley

[quote="wesp"]A caption for an article on this topic in flimisies includes the following quote:

[i]One of the engines of the “Dinkey” rail line sits at an engine house in Ames. [/i] What engine is referred to here?[/quote]

From the Ames Historical Society's archival pages comes reference to Ames & College Railway #2, one of two steam donkey engines which served as said street railway's motive power. They operated 1891-1907, serving Iowa State College, when Ft. Dodge, Des Moines & Southern absorbed the line, and replaced the diminutive steam trains with electric cars.

The chronological information lists the engine[s] as having been victims of WW-II scrap drives. Apparently, one survived.

The quote refered to was placed beneath an historic photo of a dummy locomotive of this line. There is NO mention in this article that a historic locomotive from this line survives.

Tom Cornillie

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Ya know....I just re-read that caption and figured it out. Duh on me. As Emily Latella (Gilda Radner) would often say: "Oh, nevermind."

Wesley

I was hoping that a dummy loco had somehow survived. To the best of my knowledge there is only one preserved in the US.

Tom Cornillie

Actually, to pick at nits; there are six tram engines preserved in North America, of which only the Hercules at Mammoth Park in Kentucky still has it's carbody.

I have had what sounds like a seventh one described to me. It was shown to him on a hunting expedition in the backwoods of Louisiana when he was a young man; it was probably from the Garyville Northern operation. It was smack in the middle of a grove of trees; making it hard to see until you practically stepped on it. The man who knows where it was is too frail to make the trip now; if the story is true; it will probably be chanced upon again one day.

A Shay from the Garyville Northern operation is said to be in Hope Canal E. of Hwy 61, nr. Garyville, LA. It is Lima 1599/1905, a 37 ton two truck Shay. Once again, I have tried, but without a boat, you have no hope of seeing it as the land on each side is private property.

Some tracks and remains of logging cars are also back in the swamps; and the old company store is still there in Garyville.

-James Hefner
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