What is this? *PIC*

Stephen Hussar · **Posted:** Mon Sep 01, 2003 12:59 am

My brother shot this picture down in the Nashville,TN area and sent it to me for identification. I wasn't sure so I thought I'd try posting it here. Can anyone shed some light?

The strange small object atop the far hood (above the bell) appears to be a Tennessee Titans football helmet on a stick...go Titans.

SJHussar@aol.com

Alan Maples · **Posted:** Mon Sep 01, 2003 7:26 am

Jay Reed's "Comprehensive Guide to Industrial Locomotives" references an un-numbered Davenport 80-ton locomotive at Steiner-Liff Iron & Metal, Nashville, TN. Built in 1953, for the US Army, later with the Department of Energy at Oak Ridge, TN.

I also checked Jay's "Critters, Dinkys & Centercabs" identification guide and the locomotive does indeed appear to be a Davenport.

A rather rare bird in this day and age.

Alan Maples

AMaples@aol.com

A Underwood · **Joined:** Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:48 am **Posts:** 2

This locomotive was in a flood last year (the operation is alongside a river) and was heavily damaged. It is being dismantled/torched in the same scrap yard where it was used to move gondola loads of scrap for pickup by CSX. I sent one of its two trademark plates to the National Museum of Transport in St. Louis to be placed on their Davenport Gas Turbine loco. on display there.