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Loco on a flat bed truck

August 06, 2003 12:01PM
About noon today I saw a steam loco going east down the highway on the bed of a truck. I was going west on Interstate 70 in St. Clairsville, Ohio (just west of Wheeling, West Virginia).
From a distance it looked like a big tank. Then as I got closer it looked like an industrial/stationary boiler. Then, just as we were about to pass each other at about 65 miles per hour each (combined, that's 130 MPH!!) I realized it was a steam locomotive! It was a 2-8-0, with wheels, frame, and boiler. No cab or tender. I did not have much time to look at the details. It looked standard gauge, but I am not on a standard gauge discussion group, so I thought I would try you guys.
It looked like a locomotive I once saw at Dodge City, Kansas, on the Dodge City, Ford & Bucklin RR. (a tourist line). I think that loco had been in the Black Hills, but saw regular service in Arkansas.
Anyway, anybody know what I might have seen headed east towards Pennsylvania (or points east)? Standard gauge, or narrow gauge?
Tom Armstrong
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Loco on a flat bed truck

Tom Armstrong August 06, 2003 12:01PM

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Paul D. August 06, 2003 12:15PM

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Casey Carlson August 06, 2003 02:59PM

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Paul D. August 06, 2003 03:26PM

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Paul D. August 06, 2003 03:28PM

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Casey Carlson August 07, 2003 12:47PM

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Dave S. August 06, 2003 03:49PM

Re: Loco on a flat bed truck *LINK*

Dave Burroughs August 06, 2003 06:38PM

Ah Ha! So It is 346.... *NM*

Mike Trent August 06, 2003 07:37PM

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Tom Armstrong August 06, 2003 07:57PM

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Linn W. Moedinger August 07, 2003 04:43AM

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Mike Trent August 07, 2003 07:01AM

What is being done to 346?

Bill Beverly August 07, 2003 12:49PM

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Mike Stillwell August 07, 2003 02:21PM

Re: Loco on a flat bed truck *LINK* *PIC*

Jim Vliet August 11, 2003 09:00AM



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