ALCO built their share amongst the numerous WWI 2' trench locomotives. Their 2-6-2 were of close design to the ones produced by Davenport or Baldwin.
Here in France, at least three of them ended up on the sugar beet railway Pithiviers-Toury near Orleans. One still remains there as a short section has been converted to a tourist line when it closed in the 60’s. Another one is now on a tourist line south of Paris. A third found her way to the Ffestiniog Rly where she was heavily rebuilt and upgraded for operation there.
The trench design (here in the post-war ministry of rebuilding paint)
Pithiviers-Toury sugar beet railway version.
Mountaineer on the Ffestiniog Rly in Wales
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Sebastien
SNCF passenger trains engineer
Volunteer on the "Chemin de Fer de Rillé" (60cm/2ft, France)
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