Hit the 2-8-0 post. Whats your favorite 2-8-0.
The UP at the Heber Valley Railway.
The one I haven’t ridden behind…yet.
D&RG narrow gauge C-classes
PRR H-10. Chunky, good haulers, distinctive (what PRR engine wasn’t?) and a really distinctive whistle. From 1945 to 1950 we lived about 6 blocks from the PRR Panhandle on the S side of Chicago. My father’s job involved our having frequent overnight guests and invariably, in the morning, they would ask, “What on earth was that God-awful screech about midnight”? Well, that was the Pennsy local heading south. The funny thing is that after the first few weeks in the house, we never noticed it.
This is a topic (steam) of which I know little but I’ll cast my vote for the ultimate 2-8-0’s, D&H 1400-1402, the experimental compounds, lots of tractive effort but not too much horsepower.
“Royal Consol” 3716, which was the back up to 2860 on the Royal Hudson for several years.
Now it is on the Kettle Valley.
http://www.kettlevalleyrail.org/locomotive.htm
Some pictures.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/srchThumbs.aspx?srch=2-8-0&search=Search
…2-8-0…Ligonier Valley Railroad, Ligonier, Pennsylvania. Don’t know if any exist yet, kind of doubt it…Road was abandoned in 1952. Don’t know who made the engines. Believe they had several of them. {Yes, I saw them run}. Coal hauler to Latrobe, Pa. to connect to the mighty Pennsylvania RR…Minor Passenger use too…They also had a Doodlebug. One can find a photo of one {the 2-8-0}, as it sat in storage in 1940…here on the internet…I did.
Southern K-Ks-Ks-1-Ks-2-Ks-3-Ks-4.
Two Ks-1s are still around.
Old Timer
Reading I10sa. Big and powerful enough for a coal drag and fast enough to haul passengers in a pinch.
I love all Consolidations. Sometimes they’re forgotten behind their flashier brethren like Northerns, Hudsons and such. Still, the Consolidation was the workhorse for a long time, and lasted quite awhile. I think there were several Consolidations running around in the 1960’s on short lines that waited to dieselize. Great locos!
I live in Dallas Fort Worth and new to railfanning. Can someone give me particulars on a 2-8-0 around here? We had the Texas & Pacific at one time. Pretty much all Santa Fe history I see surrounds FTs, F7s etc. Surely we had some big steam as late as the 60s or even 70s!
Thanks
…Put that info into Google on here and chances are you can bring up photos and info on engines you mention…
On another thred I mentioned I like the LMS (Britain) 8F 2-8-0 and the US Army 2-8-0’s which ran in Britain during WW2 (a number have been re-imported.).
Two other favourites - the Great Western 2800 2-8-0’s which employed the same boiler and cylinder as their groundbreaking “Saint” class 4-6-0’s and the Great Central 2-8-0’s. During WW1 when the UK Govt took control of railways these were adopted as the standard freight loco. After the war a number finished up on other railways in Britain and after the grouping in 1923 3 out of 4 “Big Four” railways had them. Examples also finished up in Egypt, China and Australia - where two survive. One of the original batch is preserved by the National Railway Museum, York and is currently on loan to the preserved Great Central Railway at Loughboroug who’ve restored it to working order. Several LMS 8F’s and GWR 2-8-0’s survive in preservation.