Friday, May 13, 2016

Friday Night Steam

Sit back and relax with plenty of steam, bells and whistles!











Southern Railway 154
Type and origin
Power type Steam
Builder Schenectady Locomotive Works
Serial number 3114
Build date 1890
Specifications
Configuration 2-8-0
Gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm)
Driver dia. 50 in (1.270 m)
Fuel type Coal
Boiler pressure 150 psi (1.03 MPa)
Cylinders Two, outside
Cylinder size 20 in × 24 in (508 mm × 610 mm)
Valve gear Stephenson
Performance figures
Tractive effort 24,500 lbf (109 kN)
Career
Operators Southern Railway
Class G
Numbers 466 (ETV&G), 154 (SOU)
Retired 1953
Restored July 3, 2010
Current owner Gulf and Ohio Railways
Disposition Operational at the Three Rivers Rambler
Southern Railway 154 is a steam locomotive built in 1890 by the Schenectady Locomotive Works for the Southern Railway. It is a 2-8-0 Consolidation of Southern's G class.
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Southern Railway No. 630 is a 2-8-0 type steam locomotive built in 1904 by the American Locomotive Company for the Southern Railway. It is a Class Ks-1 Consolidation.

Southern Railway #630 was used on Southern in regular freight service, originally assigned to the Asheville Division.  The locomotive was retired in 1952, and bought by the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railway and was renumbered as ET&WNC 207. The locomotive operated on the ET&WNC until 1967, when the Southern Railway traded in the then ET&WNC 207 for it's new steam program. ET&WNC 207 then returned to Southern 630 again, and served the Southern's steam program until 1983. Then the locomotive was donated to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in 1999, after it was leased to them. Then, Southern 630 went under a ten year restoration, with frame work, replacing or fixing parts, etc. The engine returned to service in 2011 and it is participating in the 21st Century Steam program along with Southern Railway No. 4501 which will also participate in the program after it's restoration is finished.




5 comments :

  1. Trains!!! Cool.

    Some of those engineers can make the train whistle just Sing! I live half a block from the tracks through my town, so I hear the whistles up close and personal. There is one engineer here who does the same thing. I love the sound.

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    1. Oh, how I miss the whistles! I could hear the trains from our old house. After a while you could tell which engineer was on each train. No two whistle songs were alike!

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  2. My two favorite railroads - Southern and ET&WTN. Only 11 miles of the ET&WTN were standard gauge and part of that was dual gauge. It ran from Elizabethton, TN to Johnson City, TN. The narrow gauge ran to Boone NC. Total length was about 66 miles. It was known as the Tweetsie for the sound the whistle made in the mountains (or its other nickname as the "Eat Taters & Wear No Clothes" Railroad).
    Both are gone now. Southern through merger. The North Carolina Transportation Museum is located at the old Southern shops in Spencer.

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    1. "Eat Taters & Wear No Clothes" Railroad. Bet that made it a VERY interesting train ride..... :o)

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