The one at the station is a Glover product which went to decorate a restaurant after 6 Gun Territory died. When the restaurant went belly up, it was moved by a private individual to Ohio. He has reportedly run it on air, but I don't have a clue if it will ever be truly restored or if it is available to be seen up close and in person. Somewhere I have the history and C/N, but not readily at hand.

Sure P, there's a link to a photo posted above.

As I understand it and please assume this is unsubstantiated rumor, the Glovers kept everything at the machine shop in fairly good condition.

This would depend on the definition of "good". I can personally attest to the crawling around on collappsed racks of patterns help up by stacks of other patterns in an effort to find the pattern for a sand dome cover needed for the restoration. Never used castings - including 2 sets of cylinders and steam chests - were buried under tons of stuff when a roof collapsed inside the erecting shop.

The Glovers got tired of waiting on the City to get the movement of the artifacts organized and finally departed to set up a new machine shop in south Georgia (near Albany).

The foundry part of the works had been in Cordele for many years before the closure. raw castings were trucked from Cordele to Marietta for finishing.

The artifacts (plan, patterns, etc) were left in the to-be-demolished buildings that were open to the weather by that time. Dick Hillman (who wrote an extensive history book about the Glover history of locomotive construction - "Glover Steam Locomotives The South's Last Steam Builder") found out and he went out in the freezing rain and snow flurries to rescue what he could.

Dick and I had to thaw out the lock on the gate with a fusee to get in and worked insoide the roofless walls of the erecting shop to triage what was left. The archival material had already been thrown out the second story windows of the laboratory and drafting building. Most of the other structures apart from the sawtooth warehouses were in very bad shape by then.

As I understand it, there are seven or eight Glovers left. The one in Ohio is running on air and is not available to the public. It is like the Texan who owns the Garratt and does not allow visitors.

There are two Glovers at the Kennesaw Museum of Civil War and Locomotive history. This has the two incomplete 0-4-0t Glovers (different gauges) on display and in a setting to look like they are being worked on.

There is one Glover (2-6-0) that is on public display in Marietta fully restored. It was repossessed by (returned to?) by Glover and was never resold.

Returned to - and never found a new home.

There are two ex-Chattahoochee Brick Company 0-6-0s at Agrirama near Tifton. These were custom built since the Brick company track run underneath a railroad trestle with only 8 feet of clearance. They are an ungainly looking pair. One has only one driver set remaining. The Brick company used two sets of the drive wheels on a diesel when the dieselr wheels wore out.

These poor critters sat outside at Cherokee Brick for long enough in one place for a pretty large tree to grow between the frame and boiler on one of them. They are unique, and represent a lot of history: Glovers got into locomotive building when a Glover married into the Dunwoody family, who ran Cherokee Brick. Glover also built a lot of brickyard machinery. A Glover was a receiver of the M&NG narrow gage and copied a lot of the Porter technology including slanted cylinders from this experience.

The other Glover is in Puerto Rico. I think it is a 2-6-2t.

There's a link from a recent thread to Latin American steam with a photo of this little 2-6-2T. I had lost track of it.
FYI

Doug vV