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 Post subject: Re: Glover engine runs again!
PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2022 5:36 pm 

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Sorry, I can't help, Dave. I've never been further south than Sonsonate, El Salvador.

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 Post subject: Re: Glover engine runs again!
PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:57 pm 

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Dave wrote:
Oh boy, John.... let's see: A very long time ago when I had a dark brown beard and hair I visited the Cherokee Brick plant during the time I was restoring 81421 for the City of Marietta, in company with Dick Hillman and M K O'Toole. Mr Dunwoody, of the Cherokee Brick family met us there and among other things told us that the engine missing two axles had donated them to keeping one of their diesel dinkies in service. There were the two only squashed down 0-6-0Ts, now at you know where, rusting away next to an access road with a tree about 6" in diameter growing up from below the frame between the rails up and around the smokebox, which gives some idea as to how long they had been sitting there. They were equipped with injectors and I think a dynamo and headlight but memory is cloudy..... the Holly Hill engine was privately owned in Ohio and recently auctioned off to somewhere. It sat at a theme park called Six Gun Territory in Florida in company with a Baldwin 2-4-2 from the same lumber outfit, also owned by Mike Buckner last I knew. The brickyard donated the 0-6-0Ts to the Georgia Agrirama but they are narrow gauge so they seem to have gone to a more useful place now. BTW, this isn't a restoration but an adaptive reuse as some substantial alterations from original design were apparently made during the project. Other Glover engines are in Kennesaw and one was in Ecuador but may have moved - perhaps Sammy knows some up to date information on it's disposition.

It occurred to me to search the other steam locomotive listing site, and sure enough, it shows a 7th surviving Glover, now located in Venezuela:

https://www.steamlocomotive.info/vlocom ... play=12117

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 Post subject: Re: Glover engine runs again!
PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:56 am 

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How nice they chose MARIETTA for the name.....

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 Post subject: Re: Glover engine runs again!
PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 11:28 am 

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Thanks Dave for your reply. Without the article to refresh the mind I had thought three 0-6-0s at Cherokee Brick. Wrong! I also had the 2-4-2 Holly Hill engine mistaken as a Glover product. I had a thing for that little 2-4-2. I might try and find my correspondence with Holly Hill Lumber Co and think there was a letter to Cherokee Brick as well. Was just a dumb kid trying to get a locomotive donated to Mid Continent who probably would of declined the donation anyway. By that time they didn't need any more derelict locomotives a 1000 miles from home. Or a narrow gauge 0-6-0.

Regards, John.


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