A friend of mine has a photo of one of his uncles who worked for a railroad. His uncle is standing on the front of the locomotive. He believes the picture is pre 1925 as his uncle worked in a state hospital in California after that. He would like to know what the locomotive is and which railroad. I could not find any hint as to what road it may be. It looks like a 2-8-0 configuration and with the bumpers on the loco and what appears to be a tender in front of it, it looks Euro to me.
I’m guessing it’s a WWI era Pershing 2-8-0 built in the U.S. for service overseas. Builders plate & steam dome styling suggest Baldwin as the builder. I could be wrong on this one, though.
Tom
I’ll certainly agree with Tom on this one:
It’s at the National Railroad Museum at Green Bay. Especially interesting is that both photos share that HUGE steam dome–I don’t remember seeing anything like that elsewhere.
Ed
I found an image of an artillery troop train in France. The two locomotives are identical except for the headlamp in the photo. The other locomotive has no headlamp at all. I do believe my friend has an image of his great uncle and the locomotive he was engineer on during World War One.
I agree, too. My understanding is the one in Green Bay is the only surviving Pershing and came from Korea via a US Army base, so has US clearance. The one in the first photo is similar but has lower and narrower clearance, so it was likely in Europe, though out of service here.
Also, not the spring buffers on the pilot beam–a European thing.
Ed