Texas & Pacific RR 4-6-0 No. 316
Rusk, TX, United States 		Location: Texas State Railroad
Status: Out of Service
Posted: May 21, 2024 @ 10:05:09 by Matthew Gardner
This engine has the same issue as the Santa Fe 1316. The previous company which owned the TSRR ordered new boilers for both those engines. However, they ordered them to the wrong specs. They made them with steel too thick. The heat from the fire cannot penetrate to the water, and cannot create sufficient steam. By turning up the burners, it has started causing scorching on the staybolts, and so they have removed the engine from service until a new proper boiler can be made. They also refuse to fit the new boiler for the 1316, as it is also wrong. Both engines sit waiting to see whom is responsible for the mistake so as to whom will pay for it.
Posted: Jun 28, 2022 @ 11:06:01 by jack barker
201 was taken out of service in 2013 after it appeared to have some major firebox and boiler issues. As of 2019 she remains partially disassembled at the Rusk shops.
Posted: Aug 23, 2014 @ 23:08:10 by Raymond Jackson
The 201, known now as the 316, is currently out of service.
Posted: Nov 21, 2012 @ 22:11:02 by Bryan
#201 has been re numbered back to T&P 316 Looks good, I saw it two weeks ago at mewshaw siding as I was riding in cab of #300
Posted: Jun 11, 2007 @ 09:06:26 by Brian M.
I was at the railroad yesterday and the 201 was just outside the roundhouse. Later that day, aafter everyone left, I found out that the 201 was gonna be used in a movie called, "The Great Debaters", with Denzel Washington. So before I left, the 300 came out of the sheds, backed up to the 201, and brought it into the sheds. They were just steaming it up before I left. So I guess that they're filming at the railroad this week.
Posted: Jun 13, 2006 @ 18:06:19 by George S.
The "Alco-Cooke Construction Number List" indicates that Construction Numbers 26133 through 26142 and 25951 through 25965, Road Numbers 292 through 316, were shipped to "Texas Pacific" during the July through December period of 1902. All of the units were 4-6-0's with a "Specified" weight of 164,000 pounds (This is not necessarily the "Actual" weight).
Posted: Jun 25, 2005 @ 04:06:39 by LT Brandon H. McElroy
201 has just been refitted with a brand new boiler as of the summer of 2004.  As she is the Texas State Railroad's smallest locomotive, she cannot pull a full consist of passenger cars over the steep grades of East Texas.  Primarily she has been used as a "film locomotive" for various movies, in that 201 is also the oldest locomotive in the park after her sister engine #200, was traded to the Tarantula R.R. in Ft. Worth in the late 1980s.
Posted: May 5, 2005 @ 14:05:08 by Nick McLean
Currently the 201 is in the shop after some work waiting to be put back in service. Apparently the state of TX does not want to adequately fund engine rebuildings on this line, only routine maintenence. Quite a shame.