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| Author: | wesp [ Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | "Dinkey" Locomotive in Ames, Iowa? |
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 |
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| Author: | hi-plains [ Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | "Dinkey" Locomotive in Ames, Iowa? |
[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. |
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| Author: | Tom Cornillie [ Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: "Dinkey" Locomotive in Ames, Iowa? |
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 http://www.zwire.com/site/tab1.cfm?newsid=15890598&BRD=2700&PAG=461&dept_id=554314&rfi=6 |
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| Author: | wesp [ Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: "Dinkey" Locomotive in Ames, Iowa? |
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 |
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| Author: | Tom Cornillie [ Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: "Dinkey" Locomotive in Ames, Iowa? |
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 |
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| Author: | survivingworldsteam [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: "Dinkey" Locomotive in Ames, Iowa? |
Tom Cornillie wrote: I was hoping that a dummy loco had somehow survived. To the best of my knowledge there is only one preserved in the US.
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 Hebrews 10:20a Surviving World Steam Project |
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