Does anybody know what happened to this engine?

Jeff Frost · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2003 5:56 pm

This engine sat at a bank (old Pere Marquette station now being used with the Grand Traverse Dinner Train) in Traverse City, MI and when I was a kid my dad and I would go down and take a look at here. Around 1993 she was moved and I think she was sold to somebody in France and was going to be restored to operating condition.
She is a meter gauge engine with Stephenson Valve gear running off of a crank on the main driver and she had a screw reverse. I think she is an 2-6-0T built around 1890.
Does anybody know anything else about her?
Thanks,
Jeff

Picture and post also on this site:
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/r ... ?10,658617

jsfrost@mtu.edu

Linkmeister · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2003 8:09 pm

Link Auditor · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2003 9:36 pm

Your link doesn't work. Maybe you should think of a new "handle".

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Linkmeister · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2003 10:21 pm

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Linkmeister · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2003 10:59 pm

ok, try this one.

http://www.steamlocomotive.info/onephoto.cfm?display=1482

Linkmeister · **Posted:** Mon Dec 15, 2003 7:28 am

...on a French webpage. Good to see it truly did get restored. Long journey for this little steamer. See link below.

http://www.chemin-fer-baie-somme.asso.fr/preservation/130cail.htm

Jeff Frost · **Posted:** Mon Dec 15, 2003 12:37 pm

Thanks for finding it!!!
At least I have some friends from France who can translate the page for me. :-)
Jeff

jsfrost@mtu.edu

Aarne H. Frobom · **Posted:** Mon Dec 15, 2003 2:25 pm

How wonderful to see this engine repatriated and restored. When sold by the Ford Museum this engine looked quite complete. I recall looking into its cab at the bank branch in Traverse City and seeing gauges made by "M. Bourdon et Cie." I don't know how long it stayed that way while squatting on the brick station platform between the passenger and freight halves of the T.C. union station. This 2-6-0 was the bank branch manager's second choice for a steam engine for their railroad-themed bank (now closed). They were sure that with a few phone calls they could get PM 1223 delivered up there.

Shows what can happen when antique dealers trade in old trains. Question: what's the weirdest thing to find on the shores of Boardman Lake in northern Michigan?

A. French Panama Canal Co. 2-6-0
B. AT&SF 60' superintendent's car
C. SP Daylight articulated coaches
D. FEC oil-burning 4-6-2
E. All of the above

- Aarne Frobom

Jeff Frost · **Posted:** Mon Dec 15, 2003 4:12 pm

Ok, I know about the 2-6-0T and the #148 (I will put up a post on that soon) but not of the coaches. I know there are some coaches up in the old yard but nothing else about them.

jsfrost@mtu.edu

Kevin Gillespie · **Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2003 8:56 am

> Thanks for finding it!!!
> At least I have some friends from France who
> can translate the page for me. :-)
> Jeff

If I have time tomorrow, you won't have to wait for your French friends. I'll try to post a translation if I don't get too involved in "Honey Do" projects.

kevin.r.gillespie@verizon.net