Steam & Excursion > You Can Really Tell Her Age By All The Old Features She Sports!

The older the steam locomotive the more likely you are to see the features we see on this aging 4-4-0 beauty.

The Corvallis & Eastern certainly was getting their money's worth out of this engine. She sports the wood racks on her tender and diamond stack so common on wood-burning locomotives. Here fluted domes and wood cab are also signs of her 1886 build date by the Cooke Locomotive Works.

Next we see the wood pole hanging from her tender for use when "poling" cars on adjacent tracks into place. Of course her arch-bar tender trucks also date her as a product of 19th century.

Finally we see on her fireman's running board the unmistakable can that can only mean that her ancient oil burning headlight has been "up-graded" to a carbide lamp that now burns acetylene.

One has to admit that no matter how old this one is, she has aged gracefully.

Martin



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 02/20/18 03:24 by LoggerHogger.

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And it looks like a tough climb into the cab, unless you use the spokes on the rear driver.

LocoPilot750 Wrote:
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> And it looks like a tough climb into the cab,
> unless you use the spokes on the rear driver.


Well, with the water hose from the tender drooping to the ground it's pretty evident this engine is not serviceable in this photo.

Mary McPherson
Dongola, IL
Diverging Clear Productions