Kentucky & Tennessee 7, 8, 10, 11, 12

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:11 am

No. 7 at Stearns, Kentucky, 5/3/50:

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... 6/k+t7.jpg

No. 8 at Stearns, 5/3/50:

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... 6/k+t8.jpg

No. 10 at Stearns, Kentucky, 9/13/61:

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... /k+t10.jpg

No. 11 at Stearns, 7/6/52:

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... /k+t11.jpg

No. 12 at Stearns, 4/4/54:

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... /k+t12.jpg

Color photo of No. 12 on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Kentucky-Tennessee- ... dZViewItem

More photos and information on the K&T:

http://www.bsfsry.com/steamloco/locomotives.htm

The K&T became the Big South Fork Scenic line when it stopped hauling coal and operates with two Alco switchers. They are presently working on the former Morehead & North Fork 14 0-6-0 to return steam to the railroad. Of the engines above, only the 10 and 12 survived, with the 11 being scrapped in the late-1960s after use as a moving target by the military. Anyone have photos of it in or after that use?

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Sun May 26, 2019 3:21 pm

It took nearly 12 years, but one finally surfaced, in an archive of photos donated by railfan photographer William L. Hoffman to the Md. Rail Heritage Library, taken May 17, 1967 at Aberdeen Proving Ground in eastern Maryland.

Oddly, this location is only accessible via a PRR interchange off the electrified Philly-Washington corridor, although the B&O had nearby "interchanges" that could let a shipment get almost there. Note the tender is still full of coal.

https://www.facebook.com/BaltimoreNRHS/ ... =3&theater

nedsn3 · **Posted:** Mon May 27, 2019 10:07 am

I'm confused, I thought that #11 went to Eglin AFB in the panhandle of Florida, not Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Moving it all of the way to Aberdeen makes less sense than taking it to Florida, which may be closer.
Ned

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Mon May 27, 2019 12:51 pm

I'm going off a degree of second-hand info here (trusting that the volunteer scanner, a very hardcore railfan, was accurate in identifying the loco, and we have no reason to mistrust the caption of the Maryland-based photographer, who at last report is still alive), but after that was posted another rail historian stated that he observed the same loco at Fort Eustis, Va., base of the US Army Transportation Corps and its steamers.

Alan Walker · **Posted:** Tue May 28, 2019 2:55 pm

nedsn3 wrote:

I'm confused, I thought that #11 went to Eglin AFB in the panhandle of Florida, not Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Moving it all of the way to Aberdeen makes less sense than taking it to Florida, which may be closer.
Ned

Nope. 11 most definitely went to Aberdeen, which is the Army proving grounds. Eglin is where TVRM's four RSD-1s came from. Sadly, I don't think any of them are operational now. They were our principal motive power until the ex-ATC GP-7Ls came on line. The RSD-1s were much more pleasant to operate-rode like a Cadillac compared to the Geeps. At low speeds, you needed a seatbelt. That and it was fun to watch our tall or wide fellas squeeze themselves through the cab doors on the Alcos. I had to scrunch up to get in (I'm over six feet tall).

Dennis Storzek · **Posted:** Tue May 28, 2019 4:04 pm

I thought Elgin AFB was where the 'missing' LS&I 2-8-0 went to be a target.

Alan Walker · **Posted:** Tue May 28, 2019 4:53 pm

Dennis Storzek wrote:

I thought Elgin AFB was where the 'missing' LS&I 2-8-0 went to be a target.

Apparently the LS&I locomotive was used as base motive power, then got demilitarized after target duty. Probably wouldn't have been removable except by truck. When TVRM went to retrieve the RSD-1s, the camp railroad was in an advanced state of disrepair. Two major washouts had to be repaired to move those locomotives out to the L&N interchange and two of them had to be repaired so that they could double head and pull the other two out.