Where is this 0-4-0 Now?

Rick Rowlands · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:24 pm

I can't seem to find it listed on steamlocomotive.com. Just wondering where this boomer has gone to. In the late 80s it was on the Buckeye Central Scenic, then to the PL&W, then I lost track of it. It started life as an 0-4-0T then converted to a tender locomotive. I think the owner's name was Hal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSZHuFYuMuc

BTW she looks so tiny pulling around that SW8, Y&S no 71 which now resides at Age of Steam. At the very end of the video notice the abundant clearance between the coaches and Mill Rock cut!

Mark Z. Yerkes · **Joined:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:47 pm **Posts:** 486

Nice little engine. I'm sure just about every small tourist railroad in the country would be gunning for that if it resurfaced for sale.

softwerkslex · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2012 9:32 pm

There is another thread on this engine here somewhere. Cute, she is plinthed at a shopping center now.

SteamPWR · **Joined:** Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:01 pm **Posts:** 52

Its on display at Heritage Park in McDonough, Georgia.

Rick Rowlands · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:04 pm

Well that is about the dumbest thing I have ever seen! Thanks.

Phil Raynes · **Posted:** Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:08 am

It is, indeed, in Heritage Park, McDonough, GA. Here is a link to a short video of the loco, where it is currently nicely stuffed & mounted. Supposedly it is there because it is "like" the original old #7 that wrecked nearby in the Camp Creek wreck of 1900! (Since it was built 28 years after that wreck, I wonder what the original "old #7" must have looked like!!!)

http://www.co.henry.ga.us/ParksRecreati ... Locomotive

Rick Rowlands · **Posted:** Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:45 am

I would like to know how it went from being a rebuilt, operating locomotive in 1994 to a static display 18 years later. As Mark stated, it would be perfect for a small tourist railroad.

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:54 am

Hot Metal wrote:

it would be perfect for a small tourist railroad.

I suspect, from my experiences, that the maintenance-of-way department of said railroads might have cause to disagree. Short-wheelbase 0-4-0, looks like it's got a lot of weight on the drivers for its size....... there's a reason that the old "wild west" parks that rebuilt 0-4-0T's into "wild west" locos ended up adding lead axles, after all, and it wasn't entirely cosmetic.