Kanawha Restore Project & CR at Canton & Louisville Ohio 1989
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2017
- Oct. 8, 1989: Volunteers working on C&O Kanawha 2700 in Canton; the B&O Alco S-4 8075 next to it can be seen working in Timken livery 3 yrs. earlier in another video on my channel titled "Conrail interchange and Timken S-4 ...etc.)
Oct. 9, 1989: Trains & helpers at Louisville; the bridge piers seen used to support a truss bridge on the Stark Electric interurban RR, which ceased operation in 1939. The path that I'm standing on was the right-of-way of the PRR Bayard branch that ran from Fair Tower to Bayard, which was abandoned by Conrail and removed around 1980.
Them guys sure made a mess of 2700 after tearing it all apart and letting people have parts off of her and then just abandoning her to sit and rot more...They knew they couldn't do the job and left her where she belonged back in St. Albans...Oh they had high hopes in getting her back in service they told everybody...at least Donaldson got what was left and made her look better...I can remember back in the early 60's I climbed under 2700 and went up into her boiler when I was a kid...That engine was dear to my heart..
They must have had high hopes on that day, doing all that work on the stoker. My late brother, who was in the video, later told me that the cost of restoring the superheater system was an insurmountable obstacle. Thanks for the comment.
@@vidwilzvids9587 Kanawha Co Parks was the culprit of letting 2700 get in such bad shape in the first place ....I don't remember much when C&O brought her in ...but I was thinking that they ran her up to the park on B&O's tracks that ran thru the park and on up Elk river...and they put in a short spur to run her across the road and put her on display then they took the spur out and put up a chain link fence around 2700 and let her idle till she ran out of coal and water and didn't do a thing to her except let people in to view her and never locked the gate and people just vandalized her to death broke every gauge, light,glass, you name it, they tore it up....Then the park wanted to put in a small golf course and wanted rid of 2700...and the St Albans park wanted her so just before C&O merged they sent a crew up to Coonskin park where she was at and jacked her up and freed up the wheel bearings and took the drive rods off and put the spur back in and came in and got her and took her to the Huntington shops and done a bunch of work to her...I know they reworked the cab and the tender and overhauled the cylinders ...axle bearings and I just don't know what all they did but when she got to St Albans she looked great and at least St Albans did put a roof over her....but after that I moved from the Kanawha Valley and didn't keep informed....I knew a lot of C&O people and I had a couple of them tell me that all 2700 needed when she came back to St Albans was a fire and some water and the Wigs at C&O was talking about trying to use her in the New River Train excursions...but that idea died when the merger took place...but the Huntington shops had everything laying around to fit that engine...Later I came home and seen the engine gone and started asking questions and was told it was taken to Canton that she was going for some work and be put into excursion service and I never heard another word until I seen that video of 2700 stripped worse than ever and heard 2716 had a bunch of her parts....and I just feel like somebody somewhere figured a way to make them some money because 2700 was donated by C&O to the people of Kanawha Co. WV the engines Namesake and we got screwed by politicians or somebody...There...I feel better now getting it off my chest and seeing 2700 back in one piece at least externally..
This was going on in Louisville Ohio when did this happen btw Louisville is my home town