Sophia Colliery, Hückelhoven (Heeresfeldbahn) 0-8-0T No. 8 (1) (HF 2308)
Arroyo Grande, CA, United States 		Location: Bitter Creek Western Railroad
Status: Stored
Posted: Mar 30, 2022 @ 13:03:17 by Dale W Fickés
This was originally HF 2308 delivered to Hanau. From 1919 it worked for Sophia Colliery, Hückelhoven as their No. 1, retiring in 1971. The following year it was purchased for the Aspen Valley Railroad, Texas as their No. 1 and in 1976 by High County Railroad, Golden, Colorado. In 2005 it was purchased privately by Peter Nott of Bitter Creek Western Railroad as No. 8 at it’s current location.
Posted: Apr 8, 2012 @ 13:04:20 by
What the heck was the Bitter Creek Western Railroad thinking. They took a beautiful, perfectly-good german steam engine and turned it into some ugly american-looking thing!
Posted: Aug 9, 2011 @ 12:08:04 by Jeff Terry
http://www.jf2.com/bcwrr/stories-high-country-8.html
Posted: Aug 4, 2011 @ 15:08:13 by Isaac
This engine is located at a 7.5" gauge railway called the Bitter Creek Western Railroad in Arroyo Grande, California
Posted: Nov 14, 2005 @ 12:11:20 by E Kelley
This locomotive has been gone from Golden for more than a decade and was recently sold at auction by one of the HCRy's principals in Boulder to a private party on the Central California coast.