Anyone know of any photos of #790 anywhere on the web? I'm not having much luck finding any myself.

Allan

ddg14@msn.com

Anyone know where I can find photos of #790 on the web? I'm not having much luck finding any myself.

Allan

> I think you are talking about Illinois
> Central 2-8-0 No. 790. This was privately
> purchased by Lou Keller in the 1960s, and
> operated a few trips in Iowa; also it was
> used to switch some flooded trackage. It was
> sold to someone in NY State for possible use
> on the Lake Placid line. When that failed,
> Nelson Blount acquired it for Steamtown. It
> is now the centerpiece to the entrance of
> the Steamtown roundhouse at Scranton.


ddg14@msn.com

See link for a recent view of 790 at Steamtown.

Regards,
Jim Robinson


790 photo

> Anyone know where I can find photos of #790
> on the web? I'm not having much luck finding
> any myself.

> Allan

There are a couple at

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/steamtown2.html



eledbetter@rypn.org

See link for a recent photo of 790 at Steamtown.

Regards,
Jim Robinson


790 photo

Thanks Erik and Jim.
She sure looks nice. Steamtown is doing a good job of keeping her up.

Allan


ddg14@msn.com

#790 is also the prototype for the popular Bachmann HO & N scale models, which Weaver has just done a take on in O scale.

Add it to the list of Scranton-related items that modelers encounter. Walthers "Water Street Frieght House" is based ont he D&H frieght house on Wyoming Avenue in Scranton.

Rob Davis


trains@robertjohndavis.com

Hello All

The 790 has always been my favorite of the Steamtown engines, so much so that I was quite involved in the cosmetic job on her a few years ago. One of the posters above asked about the mechanical condition of the locomotive and while I'm in now way qualified to give a true assment, I can share a few things.

The locomotive was built in 1903 for another RR, (the Chicago Belt RR, or something like that) and didn't go to the IC until 1905. It underwent a substantial rebuild, with new boiler and firebox in 1918.

When doing work on the engine during the 1996 spruce up, I remember the coal bunker and tender deck being in very poor shape (though thats not too suprising). As for the mechanical condition, I do remember the guys from the MILW 261 (they were here for a year, remember that?) being impressed with the condition of the boiler and firebox. I'm not sure about the running gear, but it was moved from Vermont in 1996 on its own wheels and seemed to make it down without major trouble, unlike the under-restoration B&M 3713 which had some axle troubles as I remember.

Hope this helps.

Dave Crosby

bing@epix.net

As Rob mentioned, the 790 was the prototype, but ironically you can't get the thing in HO in an ICRR configuration. Of all the insults.....

Dave Crosby

bing@epix.net

> As Rob mentioned, the 790 was the prototype,
> but ironically you can't get the thing in HO
> in an ICRR configuration. Of all the
> insults.....

> Dave Crosby

You need to convince Bachmann to dump the generic steam dome and put that "thing" 790 is growing out of her scalp. Looks like a wort on the face of a princess.

;-)

Was that a result of Paducha practicing for the GP yoke they cranked out?


Rob


trains@robertjohndavis.com

> As Rob mentioned, the 790 was the prototype,
> but ironically you can't get the thing in HO
> in an ICRR configuration. Of all the
> insults.....

> Dave Crosby

You need to convince Bachmann to dump the generic steam dome and put that "thing" 790 is growing out of her scalp. Looks like a wort on the face of a princess.

;-)

Was that a result of Paducha practicing for the GP yoke they cranked out?


Rob


trains@robertjohndavis.com

> As Rob mentioned, the 790 was the prototype,
> but ironically you can't get the thing in HO
> in an ICRR configuration. Of all the
> insults.....

> Dave Crosby

You need to convince Bachmann to dump the generic sand dome and put that "thing" 790 is growing out of her scalp. Looks like a wort on the face of a princess.

;-)

Was that a result of Paducha practicing for the GP yoke they cranked out?


Rob


trains@robertjohndavis.com

> You need to convince Bachmann to dump the
> generic sand dome and put that
> "thing" 790 is growing out of her
> scalp. Looks like a wort on the face of a
> princess.

> ;-)

> Was that a result of Paducha practicing for
> the GP yoke they cranked out?

> :-)

> Rob

Rob; Don't feel like the Lone Ranger. Several of the guys in the IC Locomotive Engineering Dept.
didn't like them either and were rather vocal about it. Problem was, the Officials liked them and they worked and that's a hard combination to beat.
Jim


rrfanjim@mvn.net

> As Rob mentioned, the 790 was the prototype,
> but ironically you can't get the thing in HO
> in an ICRR configuration. Of all the
> insults.....

Hi Dave,

I've contemplated relettering a Bachman 2-8-0 as an IC locomotive. There are a few minutes of footage of a 900 series 2-8-0 (911 if I remember correctly) on Interurbans "Steam Up in Bluegrass Country" The 900's were very close to 790 and the one on this film still sports a sand dome not a sand box and the footage is from the 50's. It's pretty neat, but I still like the sand boxes. They were a Paducah trademark (to me anyway) as the GP-10's are now.

Speaking of Paducah, the court approved National Railway Equipment's bid on VMV.

Stuart Hale
Chairman: Acquistions Committee
Mid-South Rail Heritage Foundation

VMV article
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