Steam & Excursion > LS&I 20 by Highway 160 over La Veta Pass, CO

Sandton Rail Company LLC, c/o Sandton Capital Partners LP sold Lake Superior & Ishpeming #20 to the City of Allen, Texas, in early 2020.  Steve Butler was contracted to prep the #20 for movement from Alamosa, Colorado, to Allen, Texas, by highway trucks.  Move over La Veta Pass, CO, occurred 12 October 2020.  #20 will be on display track - NOT operational.

As per filings on the STB website a business court in Michigan last October (2019) issued a judgment against Iowa Pacific Holdings (IPH) awarding $3.2 million plus 23 railcars and 17 locomotives to Varilease Financial. This past July Varilease sold the equipment to Sandton Rail Company LLC, c/o Sandton Capital Partners LP of New York. Sandton is the company now selling the equipment through Ozark Mountain, they applied the SDCX reporting marks.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/13/20 04:05 by cozephyr.

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Thanks for sharing Chip ... interesting move and apparent restoration

Here's how the locomotive appeared sitting in Alamosa alongside/behind the
SLRG / Rio Grande Scenic office on 8/27/2020.  Pretty amazing wooden "cow catcher"

Odyssey
Evergreen, CO

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Lake Superior & Ishpeming RR 20 an Alco built 1910 2-8-0 was loaded at Alamosa, Colorado, and shipped 12 October 2020 to Allen, Texas.  Sandton Capital (reporting marks SDCX) is selling off the Iowa Pacific Holdings rail equipment. 

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Is the blocking job on the trailer good here?  

Backstory on the purchase:
https://starlocalmedia.com/allenamerican/news/allen-to-get-its-locomotive-at-last/article_9db7a44e-c6aa-11ea-8a52-535c25ab818c.html
 

And here is a photo of the 20 that I took in Marquette Michigan on November 9, 1969.

Ted



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/18/20 00:03 by ACR_Ted.

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