Steam & Excursion > Help wanted: Who owned this loco? A Clue!!!!

An unidentified steamer .... no owner, no location, no date, no photographer .... no idea!

Really been digging today and found the original, has Bruce Black printed note on mount, all it says though is "N.S. Can." and "Aug 1959". it's a Kodak processes slide w/ 'Aug 59' embossed in mount.



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No idea, but it clearly is from back East. 

Boy she is a dirty grimy engine even for an coal burner.

Martin



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LoggerHogger Wrote:
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> No idea, but it clearly is from back East. 
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> Boy she is a dirty grimy engine for an oil
> burner.
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> Martin

Gotta really be obscure if you don't know! : >)

Like I said, she is an Eastern locomotive. Martin

Definitely not an oil burner with coal all over the tender. 

Looks like a coal pile opposite the pilot and across the track.

Dick

Think Martin just did what many of us do write one thing and be thinking another been there done that many times.  Have seen pix of steam in various conditions never like this one the cab and running board seems to have a little bend in it too.

Strange rivet line on the tender.  And a road pilot on the engine.  Like nothing I've seen before.  Dirty little dude.

That tender is one of the slope back switcher tenders that nearly every road had for years.  Looks like a lot of vines in the trees in the right side , so maybe the picture is somewhere in the southeast.



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It's clearly the mainstay switcher of the EN&B RR.

     Ross Rowland 

In my prior life I was a forestry prof but it has been a long time since I had to do tree ID!  I blew the image up as far as I could -- the evergreens have that spruce or hemlock look to them.  The trunks of the hardwoods to the left side of the picture (behind the tender) have an aspen or possibly birch appearance.  Black and white spruces grow in northern latitudes while red spruce grows at higher elevations down the Appalachians into North Carolina. Eastern hemlock has more or less the same range.  Aspens and birches also tend to grow in northern climates.  I wonder if this picture isn't from either Eastern Canada, northern New England, northern New York  or possibly Minnesota or the U.P. of Michigan?  To be fair, hemlocks, spruces, and aspens are all found in the western states as well but going with Martin's surmise...

Bruce

If my locomotive looked that bad I wouldn't put my name on it either!

co614 Wrote:
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> It's clearly the mainstay switcher of the EN&B
> RR.
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>      Ross Rowland 

Ross, EN&B is what railroad?

I find it odd that it is an 0-6-0 being out in the woods somwhere.
Shouldnt there be a lead or trailing truck there?

James R.(Jim) Baker
Whittier, CA

East Nowhere & Back RR.  Famous line.

    Ross Rowland

 

Nova Scotia have any short lines or logging roads?
 

Waybiller Wrote:
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> Nova Scotia have any short lines or logging
> roads?
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been searching net and found coal mining but so far not loco ....

Frisco mentioned her tender rivets above.  Was she slope back tender at one point in her life?  Hmmm.

look at the wikipedia topic "Dominion Atlantic Railway"
and read the section post-war challenges,  this might be the one surviving steam locomotive after april of 1959  that bruce took a picture of...  dave, out.

Sydney & Louisbourg 12? A lot of details match, other than the air pump. Even the twin sand lines from the forward dome, dome shape, size and location, 3-window cab with one blanked . . . . even the original slope back tender handhold location matches!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/8C596-RP-1920s-40s-SYDNEY-LOUISBURG-RAILROAD-0-6-0-ENGINE-12/401705976779?hash=item5d878ac3cb:g:jqMAAOSwvABa2-3x:sc:USPSFirstClass!33967!US!-1:rk:3:pf:0

Although more likely EX-S&L -- their engines were a bit better maintained with prominent cab numerals and name on tender.



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