Rumorpace Magazine sez the Ohio Central traded some growlers for the W&LE 0-6-0 from STEAM. True?

Rob

> Rumorpace Magazine sez the Ohio Central
> traded some growlers for the W&LE 0-6-0
> from STEAM. True?

> Rob

Rob,

We are working on a deal to get the 0-6-0 to the Morgan Run Shop to restore, however, the deal is not final nor are the details of the deal. The engine is not on the top list of locomotives to be restored with-in the next year or even two years.

Watch our web page at ocsteam.com

John E. Rimmasch
CMO/OC Steam Department


JERimmasch@oc.com

It would be nice to see this engine given some attention. If I remember right it's the only surviving Wheeling engine, home-built at Brewster, and the first steam locomotive to be equipped with roller bearings, made by the on-line Timken firm. It has an odd front-end throttle located outside the smokebox forward of the stack, and when new had inside-bearing tender trucks.

This engine was cosmetically restored and stabilized by photographer John Corns in the early 1970's while still in a park in Canton, Ohio. This park was called "Mother Goose Land," and was memorable for its mix of storybook character displays and cold-war era military hardware including armor and guided missiles. You never know what you'll find by the side of the road in Ohio, along with roller-bearing 0-6-0's.

When I last tried to find this engine 10 or 12 years ago, it was indoors in an industrial park next to the former PRR yard outside Canton, a fascinating industrial wasteland. I couldn't gain admission, but I could see two 0-4-0T's also on the property. I later learned these engines were unknown to J. David Conrad, something I wouldn't have believed was possible.

Aarne Frobom
The Steam Railroading Institute
P. O. Box 665
Owosso, MI 48867

> When I last tried to find this engine 10 or
> 12 years ago, it was indoors in an
> industrial park next to the former PRR yard
> outside Canton, a fascinating industrial
> wasteland. I couldn't gain admission, but I
> could see two 0-4-0T's also on the property.
> I later learned these engines were unknown
> to J. David Conrad, something I wouldn't
> have believed was possible.

What became of the two 0-4-0Ts; and any more details?

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a

> Aarne Frobom
> The Steam Railroading Institute
> P. O. Box 665
> Owosso, MI 48867


Surviving World Steam Locomotives
james@survivingworldsteam.com

> It would be nice to see this engine given
> some attention. If I remember right it's the
> only surviving Wheeling engine, home-built
> at Brewster, and the first steam locomotive
> to be equipped with roller bearings, made by
> the on-line Timken firm. It has an odd
> front-end throttle located outside the
> smokebox forward of the stack, and when new
> had inside-bearing tender trucks.

Aarne:

The locomotive IS the only surviving Brewster built Wheeling & Lake Erie locomotive, but not the only W&LE steamer still extant. W&LE 3984, also an 0-6-0 but built in 1944 by ALCO, was originally placed in a park in Lorain, Ohio. Both of the switchers became Nickel Plate engines (numbers 360 and 384) and were preserved by the NKP. Not sure where the 384 is now located but I seem to recall she is still somewhere in Ohio.

Les Beckman (Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum/North Judson, Indiana)

> Aarne Frobom
> The Steam Railroading Institute
> P. O. Box 665
> Owosso, MI 48867


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