Greetings:
You are correct Jim, all former Sandy Pond locos..
I would first note that these were all ALCO (Cooke) products, not H.K. Porter.
At the auction of the collection in August 1993, these three were sold to Steve Hall at Mann's Choice, PA and were offered for sale along side the road near an antique store.
c/n 62011 SPCo. #45 sold to Newtown Square Railroad Museum, Newtown, PA. This locomotive has also been listed as #61, however the c/n indicates it is #45.
c/n 62752 SPCo. #49 still owned (I think) by Steve Hall, stored near Bedford, PA.
c/n 66313 SPCo. #61 sold to Hawaiian Village Mini Golf at North Myrtle Beach, FL. Renumbered as #49 c.1994 for reasons unknown.
Let me be the first to say that it is possible that the road numbers may be transposed here or there. Anyone who visited Rail City in it's last years will recall that there was very little paint on any of the 14 locomotives scattered around the grounds let alone easily discerned road numbers. It was winter the first time I went there and every thing was covered in snow. I "drew" the road numbers in the snow on each saddletank. It was easy to tell the 11 ALCO saddletankers from the three other locomotives (an ALCO 0-6-0, a Baldwin 0-4-0T and a very lucky Vulcan 0-4-0T, now owned and operated by John & Barney Gramling as their Flagg Coal #2). I got c/ns (construction numbers) off the badge plates on the backheads of the fireboxes as possible (several were already missing). C/ns off badge plates were used with ALCO lists of owners. Note that most of Sovay's locomotive were purchased from "stock" locomotives, usually available for immediate delivery from ALCO's Cooke plant at Paterson, NJ.
Any corrections to the above would be appreciated!
Be well and stay safe!
J.David
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