Ford V8 Chain Drive 2-6-0

whodom · **Posted:** Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:18 pm

Alex Huff wrote:

Watched this beast work a couple of times back in the day. It had the same roller chain drive on the engineer's side between the center and lead drivers. Proper nomenclature would be a 1-C, I suppose. Its primary purpose was shoving wood chip hoppers under the loading spout. My recollection is it had a stick shift with some long linkage to the transmission. It had an instrument panel which looked a lot to me like one in a 1941 Oldsmobile. Note what appears to be a builder's plate in place on the engineer's side smoke box ventilation flap. There was a battery salvage operation off in the woods in another Louisiana town that used an 0-6-0 with the same set up.

Ahh, so it is still a 2-6-0. That's basically the same drive setup Bullied's "Leader" used on each of its 6-wheel trucks.

rjenkins · **Posted:** Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:32 pm

Does anyone know the final dispo on these critters? I don't see either the 2-6-0 or the 0-6-0 on the steam survivor lists on Steamlocomotive.com or steamlocomotive.info. Is that because they didn't make it, or because they're no longer steam locomotives?

survivingworldsteam · **Posted:** Fri Feb 12, 2010 7:47 pm

rjenkins wrote:

Does anyone know the final dispo on these critters? I don't see either the 2-6-0 or the 0-6-0 on the steam survivor lists on Steamlocomotive.com or steamlocomotive.info. Is that because they didn't make it, or because they're no longer steam locomotives?

I don't know for certain; but my guess is they are both gone. I think most "list keepers"; including myself would list them with a note that they were converted to diesel if they were still around. Conrad mentions the locomotives converted to diesel for amusement park use at the end of his directory; and my CD and the above websites list conversions as well.

If you check out Ada, LA on Goggle Earth; there appears to be little left to the Woodard-Walker Lumber Co. today; there is a road named after it. My guess is that they were scrapped when the mill closed; little historical reason to keep such a mutt around.

1702 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:42 pm

survivingworldsteam wrote:

rjenkins wrote:

Does anyone know the final dispo on these critters? I don't see either the 2-6-0 or the 0-6-0 on the steam survivor lists on Steamlocomotive.com or steamlocomotive.info. Is that because they didn't make it, or because they're no longer steam locomotives?

I don't know for certain; but my guess is they are both gone. I think most "list keepers"; including myself would list them with a note that they were converted to diesel if they were still around. Conrad mentions the locomotives converted to diesel for amusement park use at the end of his directory; and my CD and the above websites list conversions as well.

If you check out Ada, LA on Goggle Earth; there appears to be little left to the Woodard-Walker Lumber Co. today; there is a road named after it. My guess is that they were scrapped when the mill closed; little historical reason to keep such a mutt around.

James,

Ada and Taylor appear to be essentially the same "wide place in the road".....Ada was (is?) the station name on the railroad, Taylor the post office name.

Both converted locomotives were still around in December 1974....by that time, Woodard-Walker had sold its Heflin, La. mill site (home of the 0-6-0) to General Battery Corp. At some point, GBC sold the plant to Dixie Metals Corp., which later went out of business. In 1980, W-W sold the Ada/Taylor mill to Willamette Industries and they closed the plant in 1997. IIRC, Willamette used a GE centercab.

Jim Tatum.

tomgears · **Posted:** Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:51 am

This arjaycob guy got through the filter. His post is nonsense and he loaded it with linked to site loaded with Trojans.

steaminfo · **Posted:** Mon Feb 15, 2010 12:16 pm

tomgears wrote:

This arjaycob guy got through the filter. His post is nonsense and he loaded it with linked to site loaded with Trojans.

Post and user deleted. Thanks for the report.