40's title as the railroad's largest locomotive. It was taken in Marienville, PA in Feb of 2011. It appears to be an armstrong by the looks of the handle post. I believe to have been constructed in the early 1980s, but cant attest to it as the builder plate is now gone from it. On 21 July 2003 a tornado caused a large part of the deteriorating bridge to collapse and the 45 million cost of restoring it was considered prohibitive. A caption of the former turntable of Knox and Kane Railroad. It has since become one of the railroad's regular road locomotives, and took locomotive No. The Knox and Kane Railroad (KKRR) operated sightseeing trips from Kane through the Allegheny National Forest and over the Kinzua Bridge from 1987 until the bridge was closed in 2002. Restoration was completed in 2011, and the locomotive entered revenue service on November 25, 2011, pulling the North Pole Express. The new owners planned to restore the locomotive to operating condition, and simultaneously transform its appearance to that of a New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad locomotive, to be numbered 3025. On October 10, the locomotive was purchased at a liquidation auction by the Valley Railroad. Its cab was lined with wood, which was completely destroyed. It is my hope that sometime in the future this can be i. The locomotive was severely damaged, more so than its housemate, the 2-8-0 No. .With my love of the Knox & Kane Railroad and the Kinzua Viaduct, I have produced this concept video. In storage in an engine house in Kane, locomotive 58 and other rolling stock was subjected to an early morning arson attack on March 16, 2008. The locomotive ran for the Knox and Kane between 1990 and spring of 2006, when the railroad ceased all operations. Sloan Cornell, the founder of the Knox and Kane Railroad, purchased the locomotive at an undisclosed cost, and it arrived in Pennsylvania in the beginning of 1990. As they rode out, they came upon the biggest feature. Passengers boarded the train in Kane, Pennsylvania, and they took a ride. Knox and Kane Railroad 1658, as it was then known, was one of three China Railways SY class steam locomotives that were built by the Tangshan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works in 1989 exclusively for tourist operations in the United States. Valley Railroad 3025 is a China Railways SY class steam locomotive that was built in 1989 by the Tangshan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works for the Knox and Kane Railroad, where it spent its life until that railroads demise. Yes, there were excursion trains run by the Knox and Kane Railroad. It was purchased by the Valley Railroad Company in 2008 and has since been rebuilt as a masquerade of a New Haven J-1 "Mikado" locomotive and re-numbered 3025. Valley Railroad 3025 is a China Railways SY class steam locomotive that was built in 1989 by the Tangshan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works for the Knox and Kane Railroad, where it spent its life until that railroad's demise. Knox and Kane Railroad, Connecticut Valley Railroad Tangshan Locomotive and Rolling Stock WorksĤ ft 8 + 1⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge
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