On a family trip to Lewisburg, PA, we were waiting for some family members at their hotel, when I saw a stripped steam engine across the highway! Does anyone have any info on this engine? Is it privately owned, or is it just sitting there. Also, I saw and took a picture of two cabooses I saw from our hotel.
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Google came up with this info.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...?id=PPLX&mid=958
This is a fireless steam engine.
all i see is a couple of cabeese.
The remnants of the loco sit back tucked over to the side in the photo. The tracks sit right by RTE 15 but if you aren't looking (or driving, as the traffic is heavy in that area), you can run right by it and not know that it is there. The cabeese are PRR steel sided and NE. There used to be a couple of heavyweights parked to the right of the photo's scene back among the trees but I do not know if they are still there.
For a while there was a tourist train that ran out of there but that has disappeared. Most recently, there was briefly a transload operation for frack sand out of the photo to the left.
Poppyl
On a family trip to Lewisburg, PA, we were waiting for some family members at their hotel, when I saw a stripped steam engine across the highway! Does anyone have any info on this engine? Is it privately owned, or is it just sitting there. Also, I saw and took a picture of two cabooses I saw from our hotel.
All I see are two cabooses also. Where is the engine you are asking about?
I used to remember where the engine came from, probably from the power plant up the street.
You are seeing the remains of a tourest line started there years ago on the Union County Industrial RR. Once it was up and running the owner died sudenly from a heart attack and there it sat. The family would not let anyone run or buy any of the pieces at the RR. One caboose did disapear a couple years back, quiet sudenly. Everything else is just rusting away.
Friends call the steamer a Hot water bottle Locomotive. It doesn't have a boiler. It got it's steam from the power plant and ran around moving cars in the yard. When it got low it ran back to the plant for a refill.
They started transloading sand and grain just north of the yard. An antique motor club still operates there and tractor pulls also.
I've ridden the line a couple of times and my kids ran the excursion line one time years ago.
Sad story.
Jamie
Here is a shot of the PPL loco. I would think it came out of Berwick PA.
That's a "fireless" locomotive, generally used in places where there were fire/explosive concerns, like in a fireworks factory. Wonder why it was used at a power company.
That's a "fireless" locomotive, generally used in places where there were fire/explosive concerns, like in a fireworks factory. Wonder why it was used at a power company.
Coal dust is highly combustible.
Plus, a power company already has gobs of steam available from the turbines at much higher pressures. It's a small matter to tap into that resource to charge up a fireless cooker.
Rusty
The picture doesn't include the steam engine. It was caught with a film camera that is not able to upload pictures on my computer. Thanks for the assistance!
Pittsburghrailfan
there's a blue PP&L engine like that at the pennsylvania railroad museam. i thought i had a picture of it, couldnt find it, looks just like that one
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