Wednesday morning preservation and railfan news:
Northwest Railway Museum fires up Northern Pacific 0-6-0
The Northwest Railway Museum has fired up Northern Pacific No. 924, an 0-6-0 built in 1899 by Rogers Locomotive Works for the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad. The locomotive returned to steam on May 18, operating under its own power in testing on the shop track of the museum in Snoqualmie, Wash. Work on the locomotive, in progress since 2016, is continuing with “completion of vital systems” anticipated for the second quarter of this year. Those wishing to support the project can make donations here.
St. Paul’s Train Days go virtual
Union Depot in St. Paul, Minn., will take its annual Train Days event online with a six-part video miniseries because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The depot’s marketing manager, Lindsay Boyd, told the St. Paul Pioneer Press that it was clear in March that the event, which drew 11,000 people in 2019, would have to take a different form, “so we had some time to plan the virtual series.” The first part of the online series, detailing the history of the station and railroading, was produced in collaboration with the Friends of the 261 and Minnesota Transportation Museum. It will debut June 7 at 5 p.m. CDT on the Union Depot website.
98,000 gallons? That’s one damn big tender.
The original tender had a 9200-gallon capacity(Wikipedia entry).
“Steam locomotives have a tender behind!”
Neat, me thinks that the tender will most likely hold a little bit less than 98k gallons of water though. Most likely the tender will hold about 12k gallons of water.
I have seen photos of the new Maine Central 470 tender body, delivered in red primer paint. The fabricator did a great job of replicating the original body. Recently, another replica of a tender body was delivered to Scranton for the Boston & Maine heavy 4-6-2 3713. A third tender body replica has also recently been completed in England for the heavy 2-8-2 replica project there (P2-class “Prince of Wales”). Three tender bodies, very nicely replicated by local steel fabricators.