Steam & Excursion > Atlantics...

Anyone want to take a guess what and where was the last 4-4-2 Atlantic running daily in regular service? (NOT a trick question.)

No.

I would guess the Milwaukee A1.

Sharon Evans
Glen Allen, VA

I went to boot camp at Cape May, NJ in 1956 and rode to Cape from 30th Street station behind a PRS E-6. And return to 30th Street after boot camp.

Agree w/CNWH1.

PRSL Probably E6 #460?

Wes C.

It's probably still a trick question. If "regular service" meaning for regularly scheduled service then probably PRR #7002.

Perhaps 2016 when the new-build Atlantic is completed on Britain's Bluebell Railway!
Details at: http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/locos/atlantic/
recreating the 1911 vintage locomotive designed to work between Brighton and London.
John McIvor
svsfilm.com

Regular schedule service pre retirement I'll say PRR E6s 1957.

Be careful with this quizmeister.....the last such quiz was about 4-8-4s, and that answer was "Bolivia". This one could be Pluto for all I know. AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

Keystone didn't specify "in the USA." John McIvor may be correct.

Are the Sacramento Daylights even on the radar? A Daylight 4-4-2 is pretty cool!

Jim Montague
IRVINE, CA
Train and Nature photo Art

If my memory is correct (not a given, at my advanced geezerhood), the last Atlantics in regular, everyday service were operated by Camjnhos de Ferro de Mozambique (CFM) on an isolated line in NE Mozambique into the 1970's; I remember seeing photos, I think in a Trains mag. article.

Roger Lewis (airbrakegeezer)

Count Louis on the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch (1924 Basset Lowke)... Hey nobody said it had to be standard gauge

Mozambique in the 1970s, maybe later. I recall these were built in the 1940s. They ran out onto a pier in the Indian Ocean...photogs waded out to shoot them. Henry Posner owned/owns one which I believe was last stored in Kenya.

Well...airbrakegeezer and masterphots...you are correct. I went to Mozambique in 1972 to see steam. I did the action (including Garrats, 2-10-2's, Pacific's, 2-8-2T's and Prairies around Lorenco Marques. Then I went to the U.S. Consulate to get their permission to go to Nampula in the north. The consul saw me, and asked me why in the world would a "tourist" want to go to Nampula? I told him. He said he has no authority to stop me, but, please know that there is a civil war going on very near there. BTW, 2-months before, the previous consul was shot and killed at the very desk at which I was speaking to this man. Anyway, I flew up and got there to see the world's last two Atlantics, alternating in passenger service on the planet. Henschel built them in the 1930's. I rented a taxi to drive out and chase one coming in from the countryside into town. All of a sudden, the taxi driver stopped the car. I said, onward. He said NO! I asked why? He told me that beyond this point...the roads were mined. He would not go any further. So, I had to take my first action shot there, and chase her back home to the station. These were the last two 4-4-2 Atlantics in regular service in the world.

I gotta admit, that does make a good story.

Here's a Dusty Durrant shot of No. 814 on the pier at Lumbo in 1969, from one of his books.

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