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London Midland & Scottish Railway 4-6-0 No. 45305 (5305) 'Alderman A E Draper'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 16, 2024 @ 08:11:59
The 5305 Locomotive Association have launched an overhaul appeal to help get more funding to overhaul ex LMS Black Five No. 45305 "Alderman A.E. Draper", which is their flagship locomotive, back in steam and out on both the mainline and heritage railway circuit again. They hope to raise £25000 to help cover the cost towards a new 3/4 back head and 2 new 3/4 outter wrapper firebox sides plus new copper stay material for the boiler overhaul. Details for the overhaul appeal can be found on the 5305 Locomotive Association’s website and social media pages.

Commonwealth Railways 8WVBCT No. 3

Posted by: Doug Bailey on Nov 16, 2024 @ 06:11:53
Actually, according to Wikipedia, and records of the builder this locomotive was built to 56.5" gauge

Commonwealth Railways 8WVBCT No. 3

Posted by: Daniel Bella on Nov 16, 2024 @ 05:11:20
Gauge is 42" not 56.5"

Weil Gutman Supply, Inc. 0-4-4T No. 1 'Mary Jane'

Posted by: on Nov 15, 2024 @ 12:11:12
locomotive is indeed named "Mary Jane"

Coronet Phospate 0-4-2T No. 8

Posted by: on Nov 15, 2024 @ 12:11:54
As of 2024 all the windows on the cab are gone

Rogue River Valley RR 0-4-0T No. 1

Posted by: on Nov 14, 2024 @ 15:11:15
as of 2024 the locomotive is on display next to a parking lot without its headlamp

Meadows & Lake Kathleen RR 2-6-0 No. 1793

Posted by: on Nov 14, 2024 @ 11:11:33
number is 1793

MÁV (DRB) 2-10-0 No. 520.034 (52.5156)

Posted by: Martin Baumann on Nov 14, 2024 @ 09:11:38
This was never a DB Locomotive delivered 16.06.1943 at the end of the war assigned to Berlin Karlshorst 09.02.1947 siezed by Russian forces and taken east 06.05.1963 to MÁV 520,053 25.11.1972 renumbered 520,034 II Retired March 1984, initially on display at Komárom, now at Budapest

Elk & Little Kanawha RR Shay - 2 truck No. 7 'Daisy'

Posted by: P51 on Nov 13, 2024 @ 15:11:00
Named "Daisy"

Elk River Coal & Lumber Company Climax - 2 truck No. 3 'Bloomsburg'

Posted by: P51 on Nov 13, 2024 @ 15:11:48
Named "Bloomsburg"

West Side Flume & Lumber Co. Heisler - 2 truck No. 3 'Tuolumne'

Posted by: P51 on Nov 13, 2024 @ 15:11:36
Named "Tuolumne"

Alaculsy Lumber Company Shay - 2 truck No. 3 'Dixiana'

Posted by: P51 on Nov 13, 2024 @ 15:11:10
Named "Dixiana"

Kahuku Plantation Co. 0-4-2T No. 1 'Kahuku'

Posted by: P51 on Nov 13, 2024 @ 15:11:43
Named "Kahuku"

West Side Lumber Co. Shay - 3 truck No. 7 'Sonora'

Posted by: P51 on Nov 13, 2024 @ 15:11:30
Named "Sonora"

CFR (Maramoser Salzbahn) 0-6-0 No. 1.3554(1)

Posted by: Steve Frost, European Editor on Nov 13, 2024 @ 13:11:41
I beg to differ. Notice that all the left hand side wheels visible have white painted tyres. Only three driving wheels can be seen. What may appear to be a fourth is, in fact, the back of the leading tender wheel on the opposite side of the loco.

As with many continental European locomotives of this era, it has outside Stephenson link valve gear. So, from the crank pin on the third axle, which is at the 3 o'clock position, there is the coupling rod, then the connecting rod big end, then the forward and backwards eccentrics. This may give the impression of them being attached to a fourth axle, but that would be a false impression.

CFR (Maramoser Salzbahn) 0-6-0 No. 1.3554(1)

Posted by: Martin Baumann on Nov 13, 2024 @ 10:11:25
This is an 0-8-0, clearly visible in the photo

Bure Valley Railway 2-6-4T No. 1 'Wroxham Broad'

Posted by: P51 on Nov 13, 2024 @ 10:11:26
overhaul work on cylinders, bearings and pistons completed The chassis is close to completion work is now focused on the boiler hopefully it will return in 2025

Coos Bay Lumber Co. 2-8-2T No. 10

Posted by: Doug Bailey on Nov 12, 2024 @ 15:11:01
Locomotive was scrapped in August of 2011

Raleigh & Gaston RR 4-2-0 No.

Posted by: Doug Bailey on Nov 12, 2024 @ 15:11:33
Actually, 48.5 is incorrect. It was built to standard gauge, 56.5 inches.

New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR 2-8-2 No. 587

Posted by: Doug Bailey on Nov 12, 2024 @ 15:11:50
The name of the organization, on their website, with the IRS and with the state of Kentucky is Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation. The requested change is incorrect and will NOT be made.

Unknown 0-4-0T No. 1

Posted by: Doug Bailey on Nov 12, 2024 @ 15:11:03
The name of the organization, on their website, with the IRS and with the state of Kentucky is Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation. The requested change is incorrect and will NOT be made.

Airservice Construction Corps 0-4-0WT No. 6 'Douglas'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 12, 2024 @ 12:11:15
Before returning home to the Talyllyn Railway, the ex Airservice Construction Corps, Andrew Barclay built 0-4-0WT No. 6 "Douglas", will be on display at the National Festival of Railway Modelling being held at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham on the 23rd and 24th of November 2024.

USATC (CR) 2-8-0 No. 5197 (KD6.463)

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 12, 2024 @ 12:11:22
The ex United States Army Transportation Corps S160 2-8-0 No. 5197, along with her sister No. 6046 will be one of the two locomotives rostered to work the Churnet Valley Railway’s Polar Express Trains this Christmas season, and this will be No. 5197’s last season working them before being withdrawn from service for its 10 year overhaul at the end of the year.

Great Western Railway 2-8-0 No. 2807

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 12, 2024 @ 12:11:18
The ex GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 No. 2807, is visiting the South Devon Railway over the winter, where it will be hauling their Polar Express Trains over the Christmas season. No. 2807 will remain at the South Devon Railway until the New Year, when it will return home to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway in early January 2025.

Southern Railway 0-6-0 No. 541 (30541)

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 11, 2024 @ 14:11:35
The overhaul on the sole surviving ex Southern Railway Q Class 0-6-0 No. 30541, is progressing well at Leaky Finders in Devon for the Bluebell Railway and its owners the Maunsell Locomotive Society. As good progress has been made on overhauling the boiler and chassis of the locomotive. Fabrication of the new outer wrapper side sheets for the firebox has been completed, and work is continuing with reaming the many stay holes, with approximately two-thirds now complete. A new firehole ring has been drilled and will be ready for fitting after repairs to the inner firebox platework have been completed. On the chassis, work has concentrated on overhauling and repairing the axle boxes, horn faces and wedges, and new steel plates have been fitted to the horn faces and wedges. After the axle box crowns were removed, the axle box holes were welded and machined and Magnetic Particle Inspection was used to detect the presence of any surface cracking. ntensive work on re-riveting the frame stretchers, angles, and bracketry is now 99% complete. A new replacement tender tank is being fabricated by the 4253 Group, at their base at the Kent & East Sussex Railway and by the end of October it was approximately 70% complete. The front of the tank, tool lockers, and shovelling plate are complete and have been painted in protective ‘green’ paint. Inside the tank, the baffles and bracing are both original and new and have been welded/riveted in place. Fabrication of the tank’s rear section is complete and ready for fitting. Much of the original beading on the top edges of the tank has been repaired ready for reuse and fitting when needed. Meanwhile at the Bluebell Railway’s Sheffield Park workshop, staff and volunteers are in the process of fitting new drag boxes to the tender frames, with the front drag box fabricated and bolted in place ready for riveting. They are also progressing well with other repairs to the tender chassis. The tender and loco brake rigging has been cleaned and painted by Maunsell Locomotive Society volunteers ready for it to be re-bushed, the outside of the tender frames has been de-greased, and the inside face of the cladding dome cover has been cleaned and painted. Funding towards the cost of overhauling the tender and provision of a new tender tank is coming from the Maunsell Locomotive Society, which has set a target of £40,000 for its Q Class 541 Overhaul appeal.

Joseph Firbank 0-6-0ST No. 4 'Sharpthorn'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 11, 2024 @ 14:11:23
The ex Joseph Firbank Manning Wardle 1877 built K Class 0-6-0ST (Works No. 641) No. 4 "Sharpthorn", is now undergoing its much needed cosmetic restoration at in the Bluebell Railway’s Carriage and Wagon workshop at Horsted Keynes. Where work is underway to scrape back the paintwork and remove the surface rust using a wire brush. Once this initial work is complete, all exposed paintwork on the smokebox and saddle tank will be treated with a special rust-inhibiting paint. Also the Carriage and Wagon workshop at Horsted Keynes will replace the wooden buffers before moving the locomotive to Sheffield Park to complete the rest of the cosmetic restoration. Once restoration work has been completed, the historic saddle tank locomotive will be on show as part of a static display charting the building of the line at the Bluebell Railway’s Steamworks! exhibition.

CFF 0-6-0 No. 388.002

Posted by: Martin Baumann on Nov 11, 2024 @ 13:11:51
Locomotive is CFR, Romanian State Railway, and not CFF

MÁV 0-6-0T No. 377.262

Posted by: Steve Frost, European Editor on Nov 11, 2024 @ 10:11:14
Yes indeed. It looks nothing like any Beyer Peacock loco I've ever seen!

MÁV 0-6-0F No. 377.281 'ÖDÖNKE'

Posted by: Steve Frost, European Editor on Nov 11, 2024 @ 10:11:53
An interesting point by Martin. Assuming the photo is correct, the evidence it provides is that the cylinders are at the front end of the loco, where they would be on a conventional steam loco. This is unlike the vast majority of European fireless locos which have the cylinders below the cab.

MÁV (Diosgyör Steelworks) 0-6-0T No. 377.503 (11)

Posted by: Martin Baumann on Nov 11, 2024 @ 10:11:42
This is MÁV 377,503 II acquired from industry in 1952. Built as Diosgyör 11 (a steelmill in Miskolc)