Does anyone know what happened to the T&NO 4-6-0 #319 that was in the Monee Ill group of locomotives? (Thompson Winery collection) I'd heard that it was moved to Georgia, but no one seems to know where or who owns the engine.

Thanks,

Tim
runner@i-55.com


runner@i-55.com

The locomotives at Monee are covered in a web page linked to on the Hardin Southern Railroad web site steam page. That Kentucky railroad moved one of the locomotives out of Monee in 1998.


Hardin Southern Railroad Steam
jparson@deja.com

The engine was moved in 1998 or thereabouts and the last I heard the 319's Georgia owner was looking for someone to fix it and a railroad to run it on. As I understand it, the loco was a victem of a boiler company doing a lot of unacceptable repairs in the 1960's, so much so that the only remedy many see is a new boiler. It would be a hard one to do as it is a wagontop, crownbar boiler, possibly even a lap seam construction, like the similar 2248 in Ft Worth that may or may not ever run again.

lorija799@aol.com

I don't have JDC's most excellent bible of steam on the road with me but if it is the locomotive I think it is, the majority of the "bad" boiler alterations consist of replacing the flexible stays with rigid by welding in a donut where each sleeve had been and then installing a rigid bolt down the middle. Certainly repairable, but some other somewhat dubious running gear work was done as well, like bandsawed out horseshoes of teflon stuck down between the wheel and boxes for hub liners.

Very least she would need a new boiler survey, flexible bolts and a general overhaul. Not sure about the long. seam, never saw her naked.

Dave

lathro19@idt.net