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Guatamalan 4-4-0 JFK Memorial Park Washington, DC
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Author:  SZuiderveen [ Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:43 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Guatamalan 4-4-0 JFK Memorial Park Washington, DC
It is about 90% restored and stuffed and mounted in the Smithsonian as Santa Cruz Railroad Jupiter. It was moved a few years ago from the "castle" to the America on the Move exhibit.

Steve
Author:  steaminfo [ Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:46 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Guatamalan 4-4-0 JFK Memorial Park Washington, DC
I do not know what became of the 4-4-0 shown in the Ebony article to which you linked. In 1974 O. Roy Chalk, a New York entrepreneur (and founder of Chalk Airways) purchased Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. 0-4-0T No. 59 from Rail City in New York, had it refurbished and it was subsequently placed in the park. Our own ADMIV provided the photo below of this locomotive.

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What is fascinating is that the headlight on the Allied Chemical 0-4-0T appears to be identical with the one on the 4-4-0 shown in the Ebony article to which you linked. Curiouser and curiouser.
Author:  steaminfo [ Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:49 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Guatamalan 4-4-0 JFK Memorial Park Washington, DC
And thanks to Steve (above) we now know where the 4-4-0 is! The photo below (provided by ChessieMike) illustrates the 4-4-0 in the Smithsonian. Note that it also passed through O. Roy Chalk's hands.

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Author:  tom moungovan [ Sat Oct 12, 2013 9:44 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Guatemalan 4-4-0 JFK Memorial Park Washington, DC
That little pot was able to keep a job on the old IRCA due to her very light weight as she was one of the very few engines that were authorized to operate on the Ocos Branch. This was on the Pacific Division right near the Mexican border. The branch was only 13 miles long, but EMP TT 23 shows 4 trains a day on Sunday, Tuesday & Thursday.

She gained a small degree of fame around 1962 as she went to the shops in Guatemala City, was nicely painted and then posed in the yard with 2-6-6-2 250 and one of the big Alco-GE 6-4-6 diesels for the company calendar. IIRC, her number on the IRCA was 84.
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