Neat photo taken at Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 15&nseq=90

Ex-CP #1278 doubleheading with Strasburg's new acquired Decapod #90. Photo shows the 2-10-0 still with the extended smokebox given to her by former owner Great Western Railroad (of Colorado). It appears that the letterboard on the combine behind High Iron Company #127's tender has been recently repainted; perhaps reading HIGH IRON CO.? Also interesting is the Canadian National single sheathed wood box car with a wooden door yet! Wonder if any of these type cars so survived in some museum?

Number 90 still earns her keep at Strasburg. Will the 127 (1278) ever run again?

Les

I remember that trip very well.

I think we all remember 1278 with great warmth. It is truely terrible that she was allowed to deteriorate to the condition that nearly killed her crew and cost a functional, modern, steam locomotive its service life. According to Ohio Centrals steam page, 1278 is repairable and awaits her turn in the dead line. I fear she may simply become a store of parts to maintain 1293. If so, I suppose a worse fate was meted out to most of her sisters. Repairing 1278 would be a coup, particularly with the type of damage she sustained, then the replacement or cleaning out of all her piping, gauges, and boiler scale. As it is, I think we'll see Mr. Jacobsen tend out on his new prize well in advance of this dainty little Pacific.