Hello.

I am working on a book about my hometown of Logansport, Indiana, which used to own the #13 which was the centerpiece of the Iron Horse Festival.

I stopped by OCSteam in the Spring to take photos and have since gone back to their Web site to verify the train's history and see if there are plans to restore it. But it appears that the site has been taken down.

Does anyone have details on the #13 (a timeline from it's construction to today)? And who now owns it (I heard that Jacobson has sold his interest in OCSteam. Also, does anyone know what the plans are for it (will it be restored, sold, used for parts)?

Thanks for your help!

Jerry sold the Ohio Central, but he did not sell his steam locomotive collection. In fact he is building a 15 stall roundhouse near Sugar Creek to store and restore them. I'm assuming he must have worked out some sort of running rights agreement with the Genesee & Wyoming when he sold the railroad to them.

From Steam Loco Directory of North America by J. David Conrad:

Alco (Brooks) 61579 1-1920

Built for Kelly's Creek & Northwestern RR Co. #6 at Ward, WV
Sale (date unknown) to Midwest Steel Corp. (dealer)
Sale 1954 to Buffalo Creek & Gauley #13 at Dundon, WV
Sold 1964 to William Stader of Somerset, Pa.
sold 1971 to South Penn Museum #622 at Altoona, Pa.; in (date unk.) to Ridgeley, WV
Foreclosure: 1975 to Harrisonburg Bank (book says "Harrisonberg")
Sale 12-1976 to American Railroad Equipment Association (dealer)
Sale 12-1976 to Robert Spaugh at Elkhart, IN
Sale 5-1977 to Lake Shore Railroad Historical Foundation #1977 at Elkhart, IN; in 7-1978 to Middlebury, IN; in 2-1980 to Logansport, IN
Sold 7-1983 to Logansport Iron Horse Festival Committee
Stored serviceable 1987

There was a nice soft cover book "Buffalo Creek & Gauley" by William E. Warden, published in 1991 and now out of print. If you can find a copy, there are a number of pictures of #13 before, during, and after its life at the BC&G.

Alan Maples

Someplace, I have photos of ex-BC&G 13 in steam at one of the Logansport steam festivals, circa mid-1980s.

If you are authoring a book regarding Logansport, you should consider including coverage of ex-Clinchfield 1, 4-6-0, which was built in Logansport in 1882. I rode behind this locomotive twice in the late 1970s when she was occasionally operated on the Clinchfield Railroad out of Erwin, Tennessee.

ex-Clinchfield 1 is now at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. She hasn't been steamed in years.

Kevin -

I have wondered the same thing about 2-8-0 number 13. Especially since another Consolidation (LS&I #33) was restored by the OC shops. Perhaps the future for number 13 as an operable engine is cloudy at best.

Les