Acme Brick Co. 0-4-0T No. 6
Bull Shoals, AR, United States 		Location: 1890 Mountain Village
Status: Display
Posted: Oct 10, 2003 @ 11:10:28 by denis larrick
The sister engine (#5) is stored out of service behind the enginehouse at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio.  It was converted to 2-4-0 with tender (saddletank removed) and last ran in the 1980s.
Posted: Aug 10, 2003 @ 16:08:10 by Tom Goodman
As a teenager, I worked as a machinist's helper for my father, Asa Goodman, (Shop Foreman) at Acme Brick in Perla. There were two steam locomotives, essentially identical. We had to make pretty much all repair parts for them, except we had a few spare injector "things". The absolute worst was building springs to replace broken leaves. The locomotives were housed in a tile building right up the hill from the shop until it (the building) fell down one morning and scared the daylights out of me. The locomotives were retired from Perla in, I think, the late '50s and replaced with dump trucks hauling clay the 3 or 4 miles from the pit to the grinder. An engineer, John Mason I believe, managed to run the engine off of the end of the track one day. Did not overturn but did melt out the soft plug and made a heck of a mess.
Posted: Oct 16, 2002 @ 19:10:50 by David Thomas

Acme Brick Co of Arkansas was & is located in Perla, Arkansas rather than the spelling (Peria) you have.   It is just a typo.

Excellent Site you have!

David Thomas
Geared Steam Locomotive Works
http://www.trainweb.org/gearedsteam/