Texas & New Orleans # 124 ( SP 0-6-0 )

PLATFORMCAR · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:22 pm **Posts:** 429

Thought some members of the group would find a current picture from last week of the last surviving 0-6-0 of the Texas and New Orleans ... This S-9 is located in DeQuincy Louisiana ( near Lake Charles ) Its 1 of 13 surviving Texas and New Orleans steam engines. The engine appears in good safe order, despite the slightly slanted number plate.

Good to see it under cover... Would be nice to see a fresh coat of paint, correct lettering, etc. however all appears secure for this small engine.

Dean Levin

PLATFORMCAR · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:22 pm **Posts:** 429

two additional photographs of the 124

Dean Levin

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

Dean -

Thanks for the photos. Didn't happen to get a photo or two of the caboose did you?

Les

PLATFORMCAR · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:22 pm **Posts:** 429

Les..

thanks for the note, there were two cabooses on the property at DeQuincy.... A Missouri Pacific cab... and a wide vision car painted Cotton Belt...( I assume the Cottom Belt had wide vision cabs ? )

sorry for the "fair" photographic quality... these were taken with a telephone camera ..

Dean Levin

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

Dean -

Thanks very much. The road number on the MoPac caboose looks authentic, but the number of the SSW caboose sure doesn't. Wonder what the number really was, or even if it's an authentic Cotton Belt caboose.

Les

Tim Gautreaux · **Posted:** Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:06 pm

Actually, there is another T&NO 0-6-0, #841, at the station in Terry, Mississippi, south of Jackson. It was on display at Vaughn at a little Casey Jones museum there, but that site closed and the engine was moved up the IC (now CN).

survivingworldsteam · **Posted:** Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:54 pm

Considering that area got slammed by Hurricane Rita 4 1/2 years ago, and Hurricane Ike a couple or so years ago; everything looks to be in reasonable order. Last time I same the display it was five or six years ago, and everything looked freshly painted then.

Tom Parkins · **Posted:** Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:52 pm

Between the steam dome and sand dome of the engine looks like a "kettle" on legs with a steam connection. Was this used to make gumbo or boil shrimp? What is it?

Tom

BILL · **Posted:** Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:01 pm

Blow down muffler.

SSW9389 · **Joined:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:45 pm **Posts:** 10

The 45 Cotton Belt Wide Vision Cabooses were built by International Car in Kenton, Ohio in 1959 and 1963. The car in the photo looks like one of these cars and if the number is correct it is C40-8 #2 built in 1959. Photos of the Cotton Belt cars and class numbers are on www.espee.railfan.net .

Ed in Kentucky