Hey guys. Two more pics I found interesting:

Hey RDG 179, I found another recycled tender. This one looks heavily modified, even set on roller bearing trucks in addition to the plow. I guess I proved myself wrong that you wouldn't find one of these still floating around beyond the mid-late 80s. Would be interesting to know what type of steam this one was paired with:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 07&nseq=25

My answer to Richard Glueck's post about the New Haven FA1 cab in Oyster Bay, although this is quite a bit further back and I'm sure is now long gone. Again, it would be neat to know what type of engine this was off of:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 455&nseq=7

God bless. Seth

While I do not know the number of the engine that the cab fit on, the cab looks like the one that used to be in the yard in Lexington, KY. If it is the same, I believe it was off "Big Emma" which is almost a sister to the Nickel Plate 765 and the C&0 Kanawa. I am sure that someone will know for sure.

Jd Johnson, Morehead and North Fork Railroad Historian

The L&N cab in question appears to be off of a L&N homebuilt locomotive, built at South Louisville. South Louisville built 3 classes of 4-6-2 pacifics, two classes of 2-8-2s and a class of 0-8-0s. Notice the front sheets of the cab are angled, this is a South Louisville feature that you will find on many South Louisville-built locomotives featured in Prince's book. At first look, I thought the front "wall" of the cab was added later, but a close inspection reveals that the ever-frugal L&N just welded in a patch where the bolier used to be.

Big Emma cabs would be bigger, and should have the curved fronts to the side windows.

EDIT: Turns out the original poster of the photo was thinking along the same lines I was. The original poster pointed out that the 4-6-2 cabs had squared off fronts. I'd have to look at my copy of Prince's book, but my guess is that it is from a class C-1 0-8-0.

We actually have an old steam locomotive cab at our facility. It was used as a storage shed at N&W's Roanoke locomotive shops for about as long as anyone can remember. It was originally a large three window cab like on 475, but was shortened by about 1/3 when it became a shed. We use it for storing lubricants and other flammable materials, since it's pretty much fireproof.

Through the late 1990's I use to drive past this KBS plow on an annual trip. Nice to see it was around as recently as 2006, although it is in a different location... perhaps it was used.

Bob