Plymouth locomotive parts

Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:43 am

Parts source for those pesky little critters inhabiting seemingly every RR museum.

http://www.williamsdistribution.com/distribution/plymouthLocomotive.jsp
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Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:34 am

In case there are some tractor buffs here, Fate-Root-Heath also made tractors for a time at Plymouth, called the Silver King.

http://www.johnnypopper720.com/silverking.html
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Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:36 am

http://www.johnnypopper720.com/skstory.html
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Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:42 am

Apparently inactive now, at Plymouth, Ohio

http://www.morscher.com/rr/2002/20020209_04.jpg
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T.J. Gaffney · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 12:12 pm

There is a wonderful small-medium size museum in Plymouth, Ohio, with some great smaller industrial critters in the basement, as well as some of the "Silver King" tractors. Much of the patterns for both are on display there, as well as advertising material and other items. The depot (in rough shape) is just down the track from the Plymouth Plant, but looks restorable. The museum is a great example of what a small town can do with limited resources: check it out. A bunch of 'Silver King" collectors have a meet there each summer as well, and its a pretty popular event in the part of Ohio from what I understand.
Also, if anybody here works in the "living history" realm (such as my wife), there is a great period clothing store across from the museum as well. Fair prices, especially for period clothing. oh yeah--and the museum has some great "critter clothing" for your Plymouth fans.

TJ

tjgaffney@phmuseum.org

Aarne H. Frobom · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 12:39 pm

I must check this out the next time I'm in the greater Willard-Bucyrus area.

To everyone who makes the trip across Pennsylvania on I-80, I recommend a stop at the former Brookville Locomotive Works (now Brookville Mining Equipment). This can be seen from the street at the west side of town, and is still a going concern. It was recently modernized and the 9-guage 6-foot-long turntable and test track may be gone, however. The town of Brookville is seriously quaint, and don't miss the cheap motel on the east end of the town decorated with mounted steam-locomotive bells.

Aarne Frobom
The Steam Railroading Institute
P. O. Box 665
Owosso, MI 48867

Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 4:13 pm

Nice photo of the old Plymouth at the Ford Museum in Dearborn, near the new roundhouse.

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/ply_jlb.jpg
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Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2003 1:48 am

Two foot gauge Plymouth on Fort Dix, NJ. This line also used the Quartermaster Corps 2-6-2Ts. Wish this line was still there when I was..

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/ft_dix1.jpg
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Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2003 2:32 am

At an abandoned mining operation on Dall Island.

http://www.geocities.com/mkjonaas2/locomotives.html
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Tim Andrews · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2003 9:54 am

> Back about 1990 a friend of mine and I purchased the two passenger cars that were stored on disconnected track beside the Depot at Plymouth. Cranes were used to move them back to the B&O Branch but we had no way to move them down to the storage track by the Plymouth plant to finish the prep work.

I inquired at the plant as to whether they had any ideas. The next thing I knew a Silver King tractor with hi-rail equipment appeared and coupled on to the first car. After a little wheel spinning the car was moved into place and the tractor went after the second one. The whole process probably didn't take more than thirty minutes.

I'll have to see if I can find the pictures, it was great.

Tim Andrews
Chattanooga, TN

tandrews@tvrail.com