Steam and the Army

Bobk · **Posted:** Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:55 am

I understand that there is a large steam locomotive on display on an Army base in Oklahoma. Does anyone know about this and what the locomotive is?

steaminfo · **Posted:** Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:45 am

Adam Mizer wrote:

I understand that there is a large steam locomotive on display on an Army base in Oklahoma. Does anyone know about this and what the locomotive is?

If there were, it'd presumably be at Ft. Sill, and as far as I can discover there isn't one there. You can look at the following URL for locomotives. in Oklahoma:

http://www.steamlocomotive.info/state.cfm?state=Oklahoma

Regards,
Doug

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:22 pm

It is Frisco 4-8-2 1526, at the Museum of the Great Plains, just outside Ft. Sill. I was there in 1971, but for some reason never got to the museum to see it up close.

Drake Rice · **Joined:** Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:32 pm **Posts:** 10

There is a large Frisco engine, 1526, sister to the 1522 on display about a mile south of Ft. Sill, at the Great Plains Museum in Lawton. Both Ft. Sill and the munitions plant south of McAlester, OK have operating railroads on the bases. Drake Rice, Secretary, Oklahoma Railway Museum, OKC.