Chris, Rob, et. all;
Rob may recall that exactly five years ago, we were discussing the Wanamie situation on the nerrandcoal group on Yahoo. Fortunately, I keep all of that information in a mail folder on my PC, and it survived one or two major upgrades since.
The following is the best I could piece together on all of the Wanamie lokies. Notice that the pictures I have are from the *1970s*, NOT 1999. 1999 was when I was pulling all of this together; I am sorry about the error:
Lokie #4
1926 Built by Vulcan Iron Works as 3585 (Conrad)
1926 #31 Glen Alden Coal Corp. at Plymouth, PA (Conrad)
???? #4 Glen Alden Coal Corp. at Wanamie, PA (Conrad)
1955 #4 Glen Alden Corp. at Wanamie, PA (Conrad)
1966 #4 Blue Coal Co. at Wanamie, PA (Conrad)
1967 #4 NJMT at Farmindale, NJ (Conrad)
1976 Keystone Light Railway Equipment Co. at Farmingdale, NJ (Conrad)
1990 Stan Matthews, Mount Pleasant, Iowa (Gary)
Lokie #8
???? Built by Vulcan Iron Works (Conrad)
???? #8 Glen Alden Coal Corp. at Wanamie, PA (Conrad)
1955 #8 Glen Alden Corp. at Wanamie, PA (Conrad)
1956 #8 Blue Coal Co. at Wanamie, PA (Conrad) **** Note: the transfer to subsidiary Blue Coal in 1966 for others. This is a typo????
1960 Donated to ???? (Conrad)
1970 Photographed intact at Shenandoah, PA (Jack Edwards)
1983 Seen intact at Wanamie by Keith Taylor
1970s #8??? Photographed slightly buried by "ROC"
1980s #8??? Seen partially buried by Rob Davis
1990s #8??? reported completely buried.
199? #8??? Northeast Shared Equipment Center at Wanamie
199? #8??? Earth Conservancy at Wanamie????
Today #8??? Still buried, or removed by Earth Conservancy and scrapped????
#9
1916 Built by Vulcan Iron Works as 2484 (Conrad)
1916 #28 Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RR at Loomis Colliery, Plymouth, PA (Conrad)
1921 #28 Glen Alden Coal Corp. at Plymouth, PA (Conrad)
???? #9 Glen Alden Coal Corp. at Wanamie, PA (Conrad)
1955 #9 Glen Alden Corp at Wanamie, PA (Conrad)
1966 #9 Blue Coal Co. at Wanamie, PA (Conrad)
1967 #9 NJMT at Farmindale, NJ (Conrad)
1976 Keystone Light Railway Equipment Co. at Farmingdale, NJ (Conrad)
1991 Stan Matthews, Mount Pleasant, Iowa (Gary)
Today Bayville, NJ (Wes Barris)??? (Rob is checking on this one....)
**** NOTE: Re-Boilered Vulcan extra order 4763/1949 (Conrad)
#28
c.1918 Built by Vulcan Iron Works (Conrad)
???? #28 Glen Alden Coal Corp.(?) at Wanamie, PA (Conrad)
1955 #28 Glen Alden Corp. at Wanamie, PA (Conrad)
1958 #28 Edgar Mead at Freehold, NJ. (Conrad)
1959 #28 Jean Ledford at Clinton, NJ. (Conrad)
1971 #28 Fred Kepner at Princeton, NJ. (Conrad)
1974 #28 Fred Kepner at Klamath Falls, OR (Conrad)
Today #28 Fred Kepner at Klamath Falls, OR???
**** NOTE: Re-Boilered Vulcan extra order 4311/08-1937 (Conrad)
#51
1923 Built by Vulcan Iron Works as 3311 (Conrad)
1923 #51 Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. at Lansford, PA (Conrad)
1930 #51 Lehigh Navigation Coal Co. at Lansford, PA (Conrad)
1954 #51 Lehigh Navigation Coal Sales Co. at Lansford, PA (Conrad)
1957 #51 Pine Creek RR, Inc. at Freehold, NJ (Conrad)
1964 #51 NJMT at Freehold, NJ (Conrad)
1965 #51 NJMT at Farmingdale, NJ (Conrad)
1990? #51 Hugh Moore Canal Park, Easton, PA (Wes Barris)
**** Note: may have been caught in fire at park, may have also been scrapped.
**** Note2: H.K. Porter/7255/1937 was a *fireless cooker*
Chris, the engine was dumped near the engine house, which appears in your photographs. As you said, it is obviously not visible there. I noticed there are still large piles of culm in your photographs; perhaps it is buried somewhere in there?
Several groups (including the Historic Machinery Services Corp.) expressed interest in obtaining this locomotive. But, my trail is cold after the 1990s.
Rob, I noticed that we ended that thread with an exchange of wishes for a Happy Easter. Four years later, I still wish you and all a happy and blessed Easter.
-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a
Surviving World Steam Locomotives
james1@pernet.net
