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| Author: | Doug Bailey [ Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | French 2-6-0T |
A French-built 2-6-0T which served from 1891 to 1929 in Puerto Rico, and then came to the U.S. by way of the Edison Institute finished up its U.S. career in front of a bank in Traverse City, Michigan. Some time in the 1990's it was repatriated to France, and restored to operating condition by a tourist railway. Alain Paillard provided steamlocomotive.info with photos of the locomotive in operation. You can see them at the link below, a beautifully done restoration. French-Built 2-6-0T dougb@sunserver.com |
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| Author: | Doug Bailey [ Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: French 2-6-0T (Wrong Link) |
> You can see them at the link below, a > beautifully done restoration. Well, you could have seen the locomotive and its photos if I'd had the link right. See below. Sorry Doug French-Built 2-6-0T dougb@sunserver.com |
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| Author: | Dave Hamley [ Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: French 2-6-0T |
> A French-built 2-6-0T which served from 1891 > to 1929 in Puerto Rico, and then came to the > U.S. by way of the Edison Institute finished > up its U.S. career in front of a bank in > Traverse City, Michigan. > Some time in the 1990's it was repatriated > to France, and restored to operating > condition by a tourist railway. Alain > Paillard provided steamlocomotive.info with > photos of the locomotive in operation. You > can see them at the link below, a > beautifully done restoration. Sure looks like a 4-4-0T to me. Or is it a Metric 2-6-0T? K3PRR@earthlink.net |
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| Author: | Doug Bailey [ Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: French 2-6-0T |
> Sure looks like a 4-4-0T to me. Or is it a > Metric 2-6-0T? The first posting had a link to the wrong locomotive. Sorry 'bout that. French-Built 2-6-0T dougb@sunserver.com |
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| Author: | Chris Salmonson [ Sat Dec 01, 2012 12:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: French 2-6-0T |
I came across some photos of this locomotive in the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton R.R. archives at the Henry Ford Museum. One picture was of it operating in Panama noting that an employee of the DT&I operated it as well as added American locomotive appliances. The other was of it arriving on a flat car to the shops in Dearborn, MI. No other information was in the file. It's neat to know that it's back in France. It is a 2-6-0t. You can see an axle forward of the cylinder. |
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| Author: | Jeff Frost [ Sat Dec 01, 2012 11:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: French 2-6-0T |
She is meter gauge and left TC in the early/mid 90's; she was gone when the Grand Traverse Dinner Train started in the spring of 1996. The bank was located in the former Pere Marquette depot and I remember looking at her as a kid. I believe the bank owner was also a rail fan as there was a standard gauge boxcar and caboose also on display towards the east end of the depot and on the west end there were a couple of old C&O passenger cars that were used as part of the bank. While I was an exchange student in Stuttgart, Germany, I met a couple of guys who had helped to rebuild her to operating condition. |
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| Author: | Chris Salmonson [ Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: French 2-6-0T |
Here is a video from 2009 of the locomotive (plus others) in operation at the Somme Bay Railway. The locomotive shows up at 1:06. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSekoPB1N_4 Jeff, I remember seeing a picture of this locomotive on Eddie's Michigan Railroads a long time ago and figured it was sold and/or moved to languish elsewhere since it was foreign. |
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| Author: | steaminfo [ Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: French 2-6-0T |
Well...here's a photo (from steamlocomotive.info) of the locomotive in operation at the Baie de Somme Railway in France:  And here's the photo (by Eddie Gross) of the locomotive when it was in Michigan:  And of course, the complete page at steamlocomotive.info http://www.steamlocomotive.info/vlocomotive.cfm?Display=1482 |
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| Author: | p51 [ Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: French 2-6-0T |
Interesting water tank, flush with the smokebox door. Almost looks like an armored train locomotive like that... Funny how few European locomotives there are in the US. |
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| Author: | Dave [ Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: French 2-6-0T |
If they had saved our butts in 1945 we'd be running with Chapelon pacifics and British 2-10-0s. It was the other way around, so we sent them what they needed to rebuild their infrastructure. It was a great investment not only financially as it raised all ships on a very high tide, but built a web of alliances that we're only recently squandering, and provided thousands with a civilized standard of living. dave |
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