Re: Mackie Clemens Fuel Co.

The boiler and cab, along with the rear frame of Davenport #2081 is still there in the brush and especially the poison ivy, at the old tipple site, where it still sits in front of the collapsed engine house. The frame was chopped off to get the cylinders, frame spreaders, wheelsets, etc. to convert the standard gauge Davenport, which was at the north tipple, to a 3' gauge locomotive. The ex standard gauge locomotive is probably the one which is parading around as #2081, but I have looked at the boiler stampings on the back head of the locomotive remains at the old tipple site. The was also a Vulcan 0-4-0T at the mine, which was around a 10x16 or less likely an 11x16 locomotive. I have the end beams and frames from that locomotive, at the shop. I don't know when the locomotive was scrapped. I've also talked to people from the Pittsburg area, who have dived in the abandoned mine pits and they say there is a steam locomotive and cars sitting on track, under water, in one of the pits. I don't know if it was Mackie Clemens.
Dave



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/21/2020 10:15PM by David Johnson.