Have any locomotives from the Butte Anaconda & Pacific survived? I've heard rumors that there's a boxcab electric on display in a park somewhere in Butte, but I don't have any confirmation. Is there anything else still around?

Gents:

Yes, there is a surviving boxcab electric preserved in Butte, Montana. The engine, in addition to a calf unit were preserved at the World Museum of Mining for many years before being moved to the mine loading yard of the Anselmo Mine--now an interpretive area. The engines are behind a fence, and may be difficult to get photos of. Other Ananconda Copper survivors include a 4 axle (GE or Plymouth?) switcher from the Anaconda smelter, with the boxcabs, a electric steeplecab locomotive from the Anaconda slag dump (displayed at the visitors center in Anaconda. A Baldwin class B steeplecab (I believe from the Great Falls smelter) is preserved in the collection of the Inland Empire NRHS chapter (but not in Anaconda paint), at the Spokane County Fairgrounds in Spokane Washington. I know I'm missing something (and I'm ignoring BA&P the diesels at this time).

> Have any locomotives from the Butte Anaconda
> & Pacific survived? I've heard rumors
> that there's a boxcab electric on display in
> a park somewhere in Butte, but I don't have
> any confirmation. Is there anything else
> still around?


mikefrommontana@juno.com

I have seen pictures of the locomotive at Spokane County Fairgrounds in Washington. It is a Baldwin-Westinghouse unit and is painted black and lettered for Inland Empire. I think it is numbered 502. It's pretty easy to tell that it isn't an Inland Empire unit, since it has third-rail shoes!

> Gents:

> Yes, there is a surviving boxcab electric
> preserved in Butte, Montana. The engine, in
> addition to a calf unit were preserved at
> the World Museum of Mining for many years
> before being moved to the mine loading yard
> of the Anselmo Mine--now an interpretive
> area. The engines are behind a fence, and
> may be difficult to get photos of. Other
> Ananconda Copper survivors include a 4 axle
> (GE or Plymouth?) switcher from the Anaconda
> smelter, with the boxcabs, a electric
> steeplecab locomotive from the Anaconda slag
> dump (displayed at the visitors center in
> Anaconda. A Baldwin class B steeplecab (I
> believe from the Great Falls smelter) is
> preserved in the collection of the Inland
> Empire NRHS chapter (but not in Anaconda
> paint), at the Spokane County Fairgrounds in
> Spokane Washington. I know I'm missing
> something (and I'm ignoring BA&P the
> diesels at this time).

Frank,

here are some sites you may want to look at.

From

http://www.railspot.com/gif/railspot/ms ... LTRSTB.HTM

it seems like 6 engines, of the 1950s, have gone to Rarus Railway Company which still operates in the Anaconda area. That would be after the overhead wire had come down, so they are all diesels (GP7 and GP9). According to Don Ross' site

http://donross.railspot.com/dr186.htm

another one, a GP38-2, moved also to Rarus, and on to Alaska Railroad in 1986. Don refers to Gene Connelly and Steve Lytle as informants on rosters. If I understand

http://www.billingsandparadise.com/page12.html

right, this unit is still running there as no.2002.

http://www.fogey.com/bap/roster2.htm

is a BAP roster, showing two electrics surviving at Anselmo Mine Yard in Butte, six diesels having gone to Rarus (the above GP7/9s) and one GP7 having gone to Stauffer Chemical. No GP38-2 mentioned here. Check also

http://www.fogey.com/bap/bap.htm

for more info and links on BA&P.

Cheers, Jochen

JochenTrost@cs.com