Ferrocarril Coahuila-Zacatecas 4-6-0 No. 6
Salem, Oregon, United States 		Location: Keizer Station Shopping Center
Status: Display
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Posted: Sep 15, 2011 @ 18:09:28 by
Now a static display just north of Salem, Oregon at the Keizer Station Shopping Center.
Posted: Aug 3, 2009 @ 21:08:43 by Brian
Locomotive is no longer located at the Menifee Location listed...
Posted: May 17, 2006 @ 23:05:36 by Brian Norden
This engine went through at least two owners after being disposed of by the City of Claremont. The current owner is Mark Orman and the locomotive is now visible from Interstate Highway 215 between Menifee and Murrieta south of Perris and Sun City. The engine has been painted up. For more information use the following link to a North County Times newspaper article from 2005: http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/09/13/news/community/91205193816.txt
Posted: Jan 29, 2006 @ 01:01:32 by Al Di Paolo

First of all, there were only three (3) Puddingstone engines, not four.  CyZ #6 was, indeed, a Pacific type (4-6-0) as built, but no information can be found as to why or when it was converted to a ten wheeler.  Secondly, the City of Claremont sold the engine to the "Knott's Boys" (there were three of  'em) for a cash sum in 1991.  The other option was to donate it to a museum for a tax write-off equal to scrap value.  The City took the cash...money talks. 

Restoration work was started on the engine by the Boys but had to be placed on hold due to family and career obligations .  In Spring of 2005, the engine was sold to Woodwork Creations, a cabinet company in Paris, Ca. It now lives next to the southbound lanes of  I-215, repainted and working 24 hours/day in it's new career in the marketing business. 

 

Posted: Jun 27, 2005 @ 23:06:08 by Michael Ledingham

This locomotive was reputedly built as a 4-6-2. When the trailing truck was removed and why is unknown to me.

Posted: Sep 4, 2004 @ 21:09:30 by David Mau

10/3/2004

Locomotive (CyZ #6) is in increasing disrepair. Front of boiler is off, it looks like someone was reworking the boiler and got stopped along the way. Any ideas on ownership? The area is becoming increasingly developed and it would be a shame to have it succumb to the torch

Posted: Jun 24, 2004 @ 17:06:25 by Michael Ledingham

Through this site, I've found the current locations for two of the other locomotives.  FC Coahuila y Zacatecas 2-8-0 #1 (Pasadena) was donated in 1983 to the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association, then later acquired by the Midwest Central Railway of Mt. Pleasant, IA.  It is currently being restored to operation.  FC Coahuila y Zacatecas 2-8-0 #12 (Anaheim) was sold in 1984 to the American Railroader Historical Foundation of Mt. Pleasant, TX and sold again in 1985 to the City of Palmer Lake, CO.  It is now on display.

Posted: Mar 14, 2003 @ 21:03:46 by Bill McCready
This was one of four narrow guage ex-Mexico steam locos imported to the U.S. in the late '60s to create a lake-circling scenic RR within a Los Angeles County Park. Nearly running at the time, the four "Puddingstone" locos languished at the edge of Bonelli Park's Puddingstone Reservoir, where they were vandalized. In the early '70s they were purchased by Specialty Restaurants, who tarted them up (in this case applying AT&SF lettering) and parked them at the entrance of four LA-area restaurants (Pasadena, Anaheim, Claremont and ?). The photo here was from this period when the mis-labeled loco was located adjacent to Santa Fe's Pasadena mainline and the "Claremont Depot" restaurant (you can see the fake water tower in the background). After the choo-choo themed restaurants failed, this loco was donated to the City of Claremont, who moved it to College Park. A great playtoy until the asbestos scare was raised, in the '80s the city advertised its availability and requested bids. Turning down a higher bid for scrap value, the city gave the loco to an ex-Knott's RR employee who promised to restore it. In the late '80s this loco was trucked to his ranch in Menifee Valley, CA. Does anyone know the rest of the story? More points still if you know where the other three "Puddingstone" locos are today!