VIA185 Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 Thought I'd start a new topic for pictures of locos and stock that have been stuffed and mounted. There's lots of them in Canada and - presumably - the US, too. Here's a first contribution alongside redevelopment in Victoria, British Columbia. It  has since been taken down, presumably because, in an area which is potentially awaiting a 1-in-100-years earthquake (and builds new property accordingly), it presents an unnecessary danger. Nice 40ft boxcar, though.(CJL) 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIA185 Posted April 23, 2023 Author Share Posted April 23, 2023 (edited) Taken a good few years ago at Woss, the HQ of the Canadian Forest Products logging line - 56 miles of it, all now gone. Alco 2-8-2 Canfor No. 113 has since been moved to the Heritage Park, where, like so many others it will no doubt quietly rust. (CJL) Edited April 23, 2023 by VIA185 spellchecker changed Alco to Also! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 8 hours ago, VIA185 said: … spellchecker changed Alco to Also! Didn’t they build steam engines too? 🤔 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted April 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 23, 2023 How about a nice Shay? Stuffed and mounted at Williams AZ - picture taken in July 2016. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpendle Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 Big Boy in a park in Cheyenne, not my photo. Â 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 This pair were found in Tyrone, PA........ Â Â 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 24, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 24, 2023 Jasper  Calgary 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium njee20 Posted April 24, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 24, 2023 Tallinn station, March 2019. Some solid Soviet-era architecture to boot, although lots of modern units in service!   Apparently it’s an L-2317, built in Moscow in 1953. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 A GE 70 tonner as Barre and Chelsea  number 14 in downtown Montpelier VT (I'm not certain this was an original B&C loco) 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim49 Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 In Vancouver 4-4-0 No 374 is to be found in the Roundhouse Museum in Yaletown. The museum is quite small and dedicated almost exclusively to the locomotive itself. 374's claim to fame is that it was the engine which pulled the first transcontinental train into Vancouver. The loco didn't make the whole journey, just the final stage into Vancouver, probably about 80-100 miles. When I was there in 2015 the staff assured me that although the loco could not be steamed, it was still able to be moved and occasionally left the museum building and onto a turntable situated in the viewing yard outside. The building itself comprised 5-6 stalls of an early and  much larger shed (CPR?) and has been sympathetically restored as a tourist attraction.  I will be in Vancouver at the end of next month and intend to pay another visit to see what changes have been made.  Jim  5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 A banana loco down south in remote Costa Rica    Difficult to get all in one photo! In Golfito Park. It had been used to haul Bananas for United Fruit Co Banana Railway on the Ferrocarril del Sur 2-8-2 no. 81 built Baldwin 1940. I understand there is another in a local port town.  https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/baldwin81  Paul 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
298 Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 Steeplecab 21203 plinthed at Hershey Station in Cuba. With its square hood and roller bearing trucks it was the ultimate evolution but sadly now out of use. There is another square hood loco abandoned near the Hershey yard and a third at a museum in Havana.   Despite going to Yakima three times I never thought to visit the Washington State Merci Car, likewise others have been kept on public display throughout the US.  https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/05/the-merci-train-49-boxcars-filled-with.html?m=1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 9 hours ago, Jim49 said: 374's claim to fame is that it was the engine which pulled the first transcontinental train into Vancouver.   That statement on the plaque is very carefully correct. The important bit is "into the new city of Vancouver".  The first transcontinental train on the CPR ran into Port Moody from Montreal on 4 July 1886, behind engine #371. The extension of the line to Vancouver was completed in 1887. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lurker Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 Jasper (again) from 2017 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lurker Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 (edited) And Toronto roundhouse, also in 2017 Â Â Â Sadly the others came in upside down so I have cut them out! Â Â Â Â Edited May 1, 2023 by The Lurker 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgundy Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 Three from New Mexico (?) in the 1980s. Best wishes Eric 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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