10 and 14 were the most recently shopped. The government chose them, not the railroad. They took a couple of gasoline tank cars as well. 9 and 11 were offered to each town but they didn’t want them.

Well holler when ya get up here Art!!! Ken

They didn’t hate her, they just preferred the other locomotives. 10 would outpull any of the other ten wheelers. Cap Allison was at Baldwin when she was built and he had an extra twenty thousands lead

28 was cut up on the scrap track in Johnson City in 1937. Little 8 went to Gray Lumber.

He started in 1918. Read that link I tied to the email. He was in a roof fall in a mine in 1917. When he got better he started putting them up. They were all over everywhere back several years ago.

These were very common in that era in our area. Plus it’s a great story http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2017/08/americas-roadside-evangelist.html Ken

Ha! I don’t know why anybody would want to mix up that nasty paint stuff!! Ken

The lampblack was added to the linseed oil at 53 percent black and 46 percent oil with one percent Japan Drier. That makes what is called “semi-paste”. To paint with it it was mixed two parts semi pas

Lampblack, linseed oil, and japan drier was the railroad recipe.

Isn’t that Clinchfield Carnegie Branch? The narrow gauge track to the furnace is long gone. Part of it is a street.

One thing to remember about that outfit is that they were really tight with the money!

They used orange paint in the truck paint shop. The excursion cars belonged to TVRM

Go to the company “powder by the pound” that supplies the powder coat people. Get them to send you a sample of “blue ice explosion”. It is just exactly right. I’m a live steam guy and rebuilt a 2 1/2”

It’s just as snug as it can be.

That was the first Old Timers Day. They called it “I Remember Tweetsie Day”. I was there with my family as well as probably fifty of the old employees. Your dad was right, Paul Harvey was there to spe

Not quite as short answer: Hell No Ken

Rittertown Road is the old highway that was here then. It crossed the railroad beside the depot. Ken

Those ET lanterns weren’t much good. They wouldn’t stay lit so I Understand. The CC&O donated a lot of coal scoops to the narrow gauge as well. There were a lot of ex ET men over there and many a scoo

The narrow gauge men were in the same brotherhood lodge as the Clinchfield men. If you look at the very early timetables train handling and operational rules are on them. Mr Crumley had his fare books

She ran the bicentennial trips. I was there. She made at least two trips to Johnson City for repairs. She came west dead, but Mr. Hobbs charged her to 180psi from his locomotive in Johnson City and ra