Soo Line/Koppers 353

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:12 pm

Not sure if at the tie plant or perhaps the Minnesota Transfer RR in the Twin Cities, in 1966:

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... aul_MN.jpg

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:14 pm

At Tracy, Minnesota in 2006. It was also a Koppers engine after sale by the Soo Line.

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... acy_MN.jpg

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

bobyar2001 wrote:

At Tracy, Minnesota in 2006. It was also a Koppers engine after sale by the Soo Line.

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... acy_MN.jpg

Is this the world's worst looking cabbage stack locomotive? What WERE they thinking? They took a neat looking little 0-6-0 and by one stupid addition, made it into a monstrosity! Too bad, because the rest of the equipment/artifacts look fairly decent.

Les

rjenkins · **Posted:** Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:50 am

Les Beckman wrote:

Is this the world's worst looking cabbage stack locomotive?

I think it's a toss-up between her and Southern Sand & Gravel 102 in Palmer, Mass as far as that contest goes.

What's particularly sad is that in both cases it was former owners in different locations that gave them the Wild West treatment, and presumably both of those awful stacks must have come off for their respective moves, only to be put back on again by the new owners!

Soo/Koppers 346 picked up her fake stack during her years on display half inside/half outside of a restaurant in Rochester, Minnesota (along with a couple of ex-NP coaches, not sure what became of them when the building was torn down). Southern Sand & Gravel 102 got hers while on display at a flea market in Hubbardston, Mass.