@smd4 posted:As for the photo of 382 Rusty linked to above, the Water Valley Casey Jones Museum website states that "when that engine was delivered to the IC in 1898, it carried the number 382....When returned to service three months [after the accident], it was renumbered to 212. In 1907 it was renumbered to 2012. It was later, in 1922 renumbered to the 5012 and retired in July 1935." So we know the engine Rusty linked to--if it really was Casey's-- wasn't photographed in 1945. But is the number accurate? Certainly the engine is the same class. But does the number on the smokebox number plate seem a little too pronounced, perhaps? Could this engine really be the Casey Jones engine? Or one of the same class that has simply been re-touched to show the original number?
I hadn't given these photo's a second glance until this thread. It's sort of fun unearthing this stuff...
There are two photo's of the 382 after it was renumbered to 2012 in "Rods Down and Dropped Fires" dated 1907 and 1914. The locomotive looks virtually identical to prior to the wreck, but was given a larger tender.
The book attributes this famous photo to 1900, shortly after the 382 was repaired at the Water Valley Shops. Notice the knuckle coupler on the pilot. The IC Magazine from the 1950's even identified the men: W.H. Hartwell (in the gangway,) Bob Davis (in the cab,) Engineers John Brown and Bob Moore on the ground,) and firemen Ed Kennedy and Lorin Rogers.
Boy, the more we dig, the greater the mysteries. I suspect you may be right... It's most likely the 2012 retouched as 382. The linked photo shows the larger tender, so it was taken somewhere between 1907 and 1922.
Another photo shows the locomotive after being renumbered to 5012 in 1922. Here the locomotive was modernized with a new cab, Pyle headlight, piston valve adapters and Walschaerts valve gear. Also the running boards are no longer one level and ladders were added from the pilot to the running boards. Sadly, the image isn't on the web, but this one of sister 5041 is similar.
Rusty