Does anybody know of any operating vulcan locomotives?

superheater@beer.com

> Does anybody know of any operating vulcan
> locomotives?

The Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum is operating a 1904 Vulcan 0-4-4T. You can see it at the link below or better yet, visit the museum ;-)

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mcnamara@theworld.com

not operating yet - but one of the pair should be running by Xmas. currently finished with running gear overhaul and boiler beung retubed

> The Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington
> Railway Museum is operating a 1904 Vulcan
> 0-4-4T. You can see it at the link below or
> better yet, visit the museum ;-)


http://www.bpr.org.au/vulcan.html

> Does anybody know of any operating vulcan
> locomotives?

I know of three or four more. Monson #s 3 and 4 (both 2' gauge Forneys) at Maine Narrow Gauge in Portland, Maine. A 3' gauge 0-4-0 at Georgia Agrirama in Tifton, GA. And I believe the "Henry Clay" (42" gauge 0-4-0T?) at the coal mine museum (sorry forgot the name) near Frackville, PA is also a Vulcan.

To the best of my recollection,
Glenn


christensenge@yahoo.com

New Hope Valley 17 at Bonsal, NC.

Dave

irondave@bellsouth.net

Our 0-4-0T Vulcan was built in 1941 for New York Shipbuilding. A typical oil burning slide-valve saddletank with inside Stephenson gear, about 44 tons wet and 17,500# T.E.

We are finishing up tuning work to get her into a regular operating schedule.

Bill

staybolt@bellsouth.net

> Does anybody know of any operating vulcan
> locomotives?

There are 50 VIW steam locomotives listed as operational (or in some cases recently operational, but not at the present time) in "Surviving World Steam Locomotives".

Ten are standard guage. Remember that some of the 0-6-0T pannier tank engines built during WWII were built by VIW.

Twenty-three are operational in Cuba. One Skyliner, 56359, is stored operational; the rest are stored awaiting scrap.

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james1@pernet.net

I think there was a post about those engines on here a while back. I think the turks have a rr museum over there where the one of the "skyliners" is preserved.

To bad we can't get one back. Skyliners were tested on the Lehigh Valley in pusher service. So i guess they would be the only surviving Lehigh Valley steam engines.

For all the talk about the global economy as a something that emerged in the last 20 years, it seems Vulcan was quite the dynamo of international commerce. Australia, South America, Cuba, Europe all saw vulcan engines.

superheater@beer.com

> I think there was a post about those engines
> on here a while back. I think the turks have
> a rr museum over there where the one of the
> "skyliners" is preserved.

Skyliner 56375 is preserved in a museum in Ankara. #56337 is preserved in the museum in Camlik. #56359 is stored operational, as I mentioned before; numbers 56369, 56376, 56378, 56382, and 56336 are/were all stored by Turkish Railways (TCDD) awaiting scrap.

> To bad we can't get one back. Skyliners were
> tested on the Lehigh Valley in pusher
> service. So i guess they would be the only
> surviving Lehigh Valley steam engines.

The previous conversation was about repatriating American-built steam locomotives back to America. The Skyliners were mentioned, particularly in light of their current status.

Didn't we get back some ex-US Navy warships from Turkey in recent years? It would seem like the same would be possible with a Skyliner; money and organizing the effort may be more of a problem.

> For all the talk about the global economy as
> a something that emerged in the last 20
> years, it seems Vulcan was quite the dynamo
> of international commerce. Australia, South
> America, Cuba, Europe all saw vulcan
> engines.

Many of the steam builders spearheaded international commerce. Baldwins can also be found on every continent, and in many countries. A pair of H.K. Porter tank engines similiar to St. Elizabeth Hospital #4 and built the same year have surfaced at an old iron works in Smederevo, Serbia. (One, with a construction number of 8245 may have been built AFTER St. E #4, sorry B&O RR Museum.)

Orenstein & Koppel in Germany and Vulcan Foundry, Hudswell Clarke, Hunslet and others in Great Britian dispatched large numbers of steam locomotives worldwide as well. British and American steam vehicle builders such as Case, Marshall Sons & Co and Aveling & Porter Ltd. (once again just to name a few) did so as well.

In my fledgling steam pump research, I have found that Worthington Pump even had a factory overseas in the form of Worthington Simpson of Newark, UK. Worthington Simpson steam pumps are preserved in Australia as well as the UK.

I'm sure the same was true for steamships as well. Besides providing raw materials to feed their empires, the colonies also provided ready markets for their finished products. Recently internationalism has only opened new markets and new suppliers; the concept of a global market is nothing new to the industrial age.

Sorry, I'll get of my soapbox now...

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a

Surviving World Steam Locomotives
james1@pernet.net

There are two active 24" gage gas-mechanical Vulcans active near St. Marys, PA, plus another under heavy restoration.



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nickSKIPTHESELETTERSd@telerama.com

> There are two active 24" gage
> gas-mechanical Vulcans active near St.
> Marys, PA, plus another under heavy
> restoration.

I am surprised nobody has mentioned the Vulcan 2-6-2 tender engine operating on the Lumberjack Special trains at Laona, Wisconsin. The engine runs on a portion of the former Laona and Northern line that was owned by the Connor Land and Lumber Company, and is a beautiful little Prairie. It used to run from the mill to Laona Junction. The sawmill and lumber company are gone now and the train runs to a "reconstructed" lumber town. Check out the website for the Lumberjack Special.

holombo.chris@ssd.loral.com

> Does anybody know of any operating vulcan
> locomotives?
Flagg Coal Co. no 2(Vulcan 1930) now no 75 is at The Michigan State Trust for Railroad Preservation in Owosso MI It has passed all federal tests and is waiting on the paperwork to catch up. It will be running next spring and will be joined by L.V.C.Co. 126 (Vulcan 1931) Currently halfway through restoration next summer.

johncgra@locl.net

> I am surprised nobody has mentioned the
> Vulcan 2-6-2 tender engine operating on the
> Lumberjack Special trains at Laona,
> Wisconsin. The engine runs on a portion of
> the former Laona and Northern line that was
> owned by the Connor Land and Lumber Company,
> and is a beautiful little Prairie. It used
> to run from the mill to Laona Junction. The
> sawmill and lumber company are gone now and
> the train runs to a
> "reconstructed" lumber town. Check
> out the website for the Lumberjack Special.

Chris: I was up to Laona many years ago (my grown kids were small then) and rode behind #4. At that time, the L&NO connection to the Soo Line at Laona Junction was still in place. The last run of the afternoon wouldn't just go to the "touristy lumber town" but would add any cars that needed to go to the Soo on to the train and ran the 8 miles to the junction The L&NO, like many lumber railroads, didn't have cuts or fills but just ran their line up and down the modest hills. Boy; talk about the little engine that could! The Prairie would chug up one hill, barely keeping the momentum going (I think I can,..I..think...I....can) then race down the downhill side (I...thought...I..could, I..thought.I could, I thought I could.) Then it was repeated for the next hill. We eventually dropped the boxcars on the interchange and with only the passenger cars and cabooses, the Vulcan had an easier time of it on the way back home. Sure wish Greg Scholl or someone else had been around to tape that operation. A great show; it certainly have made a great tape.

Les Beckman (HVRM)

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