Hi all
My question in the subject area has Frisco # 1352 left Ohio for the Valley Railroad in Connecticut.. or is still awaiting to be shipped.. ????
There is no information on the Essex Steam train webpage,, if the locomotive is on its way,,,or still in Ohio..???? Thank you, Pat.

I don't think it was ever in Ohio. After being removed from Swope Park in Kansas City it was taken to Taylorville, IL to be returned to steam. That never materialized and it sat for many years in pieces there.
I wish Dave Conrad best of luck finding all of her and getting her to CT.

If they need patterns of any components, sister #1351 has most of her components and was still in Collierville, TN the last time I was there.

Hi
I would like to make a correction on the location of Frisco 1352,, in my original post I had her located in Ohio,
,I was wrong on this,,sorry..
The present location of the locomotive,,should be Taylorville,Illinois,, and not Ohio,, sorry ..Pat.

The 1355 is at Pensacola, FL also.

And just for the record, the Frisco 2-8-2 in Collierville, TN is sister engine number 1351.

Les

Don't ask me how that 1351 got autocorrected to 1352. (It would be hard to imagine that the sister engine to 1352 would be 1352!)

The funny thing is that I carefully looked at that post before sending it... or thought I did.

For anyone not familiar with this class, these were 'rebuilt' from 2-8-0s, at about the same time that the Reading was rebuilding certain other 2-8-0s into the T-1 4-8-4s. In both cases the result is a very modern late-steam locomotive, with many of the 'mod cons' such as booster, Valve Pilot, and foam-meter.

Greetings:
While I did do the initial inspection of No. 1352, Wayne Hebert, my successor as Chief Mechanical Officer at Valley Railroad, is arranging for it's relocation to Essex, CT.
He has already visited the site and spoken with a crane company.
Included with the locomotive and tender was a trailer load of parts from the locomotive as well as parts stored at Bellevue and Cleveland, OH.
Still unaccounted for are the Nathan DV-7(?) mechanical lubricator and the gauge for the Valve Pilot.
J.David

Any updates on this Mikado?

Joshua

There's a good chance it will not be going to Connecticut. Stay tuned.....

Howard P.

Well that's a new wrinkle...

Recent photos and posts from Facebook reveal that the locomotive is headed towards the Aberdeen Carolina & Western

Link to comment that has ACWR reporting mark on cab: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 968&type=3

Yeah i see that on Facebook too, 1352 was ((apparently)) too heavy for the Valley Railroad line and was resold to.........???

that's awesome. About time ACWR got a steam locomotive. Their passenger shop and heritage diesel work is incredible. you know they will do it right too.

Well, I want to see more than just "ACWR" written on the cab (in chalk!) before I am convinced.