I take it as you wrote it, "Stuffed and Mounted" means "On semi-permanent display?" Kind of a pity the little engine might not ever move under it's own power again, but it still appears road worthy. My Kentucky friend likes to go to Nicholasville and visit the various flea markets and thrift stores in the area. I'll bet he's seen this little engine on display as well.

Yeah, thats basically what stuffed and mounted means to the railfan community. It ends up being more "permanent" rather than "semi-permanent" most of the time sadly. The sad part is the the engine is the perfect size for a tourist railroad and is a baldwin "off the shelf" model so she's basically a bare bones minimum stuff to replace type of engine. She's been kept away from running again by the bullshit infighting and arm chair directors that plague every railroad club in this state. It's had plenty of oppurtunities to run somewhere but certain locals treated it like it was their personal little toy.

I know the guy that ran this engine on her last runs on the TTI. He said the engine is built so simple that it doesn't even have drift valves. He recalled that if the rail was wet and you closed the throttle the drive wheels would stop turning and the engine would just slide down the track while the train pushed it.

well IF I had the money this loco would vanish in the night (legally of course )

That train looks awesome! I first thought it is a camelback xD

I love trains.

You know the TransEurope Express? it traveled in the past in germany. I made ONE pic..just ONe time a pic of it cause... it doesnt drive anymore cause electric time. It was a fuel train. And the famousest and best train we had here in germany.

we've got a plith'd engine in our town too. it was origeonally on the mail train when it was new, then it was on fire train duty up at norden on donner summit, when they had the wooden snow sheds. it was for the longest time at the fairgrounds, where dispite a variety of security precautions, everything that could be stolen off of it had been. now its out by one of the main roads in and out of town where it is always visible. but thats a bit like closing the barn door after the fact. i don't know how restorable it was even then, but portola did consider it for a while, that or someone was trying to get them to. in our case, our whole town was created by the railrod, was even, up until a very few decades ago, almost completely about the railroad, which the town now seems to be trying to do everything it possibly can to deny.

before colton yard was built, jennigs yard jy in roseville, was that largest gravity yard, or rail yard of any kind, west of the mississippi. for more then half of my life, everyone who lived in this town either worked for the railroad or had someone in their immediate family who did. with maybe a very very small minority of exceptions. we also had the worlds largest, absolutely no exageration even a little bit, ice plant, when california's produce was shipped to everywhere in ice cooled freight cars.