Re: MId Continent Railway Museum (NNG)
| January 06, 2011 04:20PM |
Back in January and February 2007 I wrote a two-part look at surviving Rotary snowplows that appeared in Railfan & Railroad. Here is what I wrote about the Ogden and Mid Continent plows:
In the upper Midwest the Mid-Continent Railway Museum displays Oregon Short Line rotary No. 762 alongside their depot in North Freedom, Wisconsin. It was constructed by Alco-Rogers in November 1912 (C/N #51166) for UP subsidiary OSL, and in 1936 became Union Pacific No. 051, then finally No. 900051 in the 1960s. It retains its oil-fired steam boiler, but its wooden carbody has been upgraded with steel plates that have replaced its original wood sheathing. Privately preserved at a Blackfoot, Idaho restaurant in 1972, No. 762 was acquired by Mid-Continent in 1979 and restored into its as-built appearance with OSL lettering in 1985. Between 1985 and 1989 it was steamed up for demonstration runs during the museum’s annual “Snow Train” event, but is currently held out-of-service awaiting boiler repairs.
A near-identical rotary is on exhibit at the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden. Also built by Alco-Rogers in 1912 (C/N #51167) it was originally Oregon, Washington Railway & Navigation Company No. 61 and was based out of Pocatello, Idaho. It spent its working life in the Pacific Northwest, and was heavily rebuilt over the years, receiving a new steel carbody and an elevated pilot cab during a major overhaul in 1951, at which time it also was given a large Vanderbilt tender from a scrapped UP 2-10-2. Retired and donated to the museum in 1978, it is preserved as it appeared at the end of its career, with a six-digit UP MOW number (900061), silver carbody, and red blades.
Jeff Terry
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/06/2011 04:37PM by Jeff Terry.
In the upper Midwest the Mid-Continent Railway Museum displays Oregon Short Line rotary No. 762 alongside their depot in North Freedom, Wisconsin. It was constructed by Alco-Rogers in November 1912 (C/N #51166) for UP subsidiary OSL, and in 1936 became Union Pacific No. 051, then finally No. 900051 in the 1960s. It retains its oil-fired steam boiler, but its wooden carbody has been upgraded with steel plates that have replaced its original wood sheathing. Privately preserved at a Blackfoot, Idaho restaurant in 1972, No. 762 was acquired by Mid-Continent in 1979 and restored into its as-built appearance with OSL lettering in 1985. Between 1985 and 1989 it was steamed up for demonstration runs during the museum’s annual “Snow Train” event, but is currently held out-of-service awaiting boiler repairs.
A near-identical rotary is on exhibit at the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden. Also built by Alco-Rogers in 1912 (C/N #51167) it was originally Oregon, Washington Railway & Navigation Company No. 61 and was based out of Pocatello, Idaho. It spent its working life in the Pacific Northwest, and was heavily rebuilt over the years, receiving a new steel carbody and an elevated pilot cab during a major overhaul in 1951, at which time it also was given a large Vanderbilt tender from a scrapped UP 2-10-2. Retired and donated to the museum in 1978, it is preserved as it appeared at the end of its career, with a six-digit UP MOW number (900061), silver carbody, and red blades.
Jeff Terry
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/06/2011 04:37PM by Jeff Terry.
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