Steam & Excursion > Tavares Eustis & Gulf 2

2-6-0 at Mt Dora,FL. Gets used on Saturdays:)

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Enjoy



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/28/15 20:34 by SD45X.

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What a great looking locomotive! She run?

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CPRR Wrote:
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> What a great looking locomotive! She run?
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> Posted from iPhone

On Saturdays........

Oh No..red wheels!
Thanks for the photos...nice looking oldie
Roger Beckett

CPRR Wrote:
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> She run?

Check out this video from a few years ago http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,2748879

She's getting pretty weathered, and looks a bit strange without a front number plate (apparently they run her without the plate - did someone steal it? - I checked current photos on Flickr and they show here without the plate).



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Here she is on Feb 9, 2013 with the spot plate intact.

Jack Bejna
Los Angeles, CA

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Thanks for the post. Not too many genuine wood burners working in the U.S, these days.

Cheers,
Jack

The engine looked a world better without the cabbage stack and hokey paint. A search will quickly turn up her prior appearance, which is sadly hard to imagine when looking at it in person.

The engine, which was originally Shreveport, Houston and Gulf #2, for the Carter-Kelley Lumber Co. in Texas, was built with a cabbage head stack as a woodburner. It was converted to oil for use as a road locomotive a few years later, with a nice capped stack. From some of the pictures that I have in my collection of logging locomotives in Louisiana and East Texas, there were quite a few logging engines painted up in rather unusual color schemes. On the lumber company engines at Long Leaf, the drivers show evidence of black, red, blue and yellow paint, and we have color photos of engines with green cab, domes and tender, with royal blue boiler (and yellow lettering), as well as black boiler, red drivers, yellow cab and tender with red lettering.

The wood cab and the old style steam dome cover and sand dome, were to back date the engine from an early 1900 appearance, to more of an engine from 1880-90 for several movie roles. Sister engine #1 still looks the same way as it was built, except that it has donated its cabbage head stack to the #2 for use in Florida.