A Missing Locomotive
Missing locomotives occasionally make headlines. Someone discovers that in 19XX, a locomotive pitched over sideways in a swamp - and is still there. I was recently apprised of a missing miniature locomotive - small in size, but historically significant enough to be relevant to this blog. Of note, the engine was designed in the early 1890s by the general superintendent of a Pennsylvania shortline, and if it still exists, likely has its original planished iron boiler jacket and preserved 1890s paint. How can one be so sure? Because its two sisters are preserved in this condition. DS&S No.4, preserved at Eckley Miners' Village. Photo by Michael Hostetter. DS&S No. 4 a hundred years earlier, next to full-sized DS&S No. 17. Photo courtesy Charlie Gallagher. The Delaware, Susquehanna & Schuylkill Railroad was a full-sized, standard-gauge railroad chartered in 1890 by the Coxe coal mining enterprise in Pennsylvania to connect their coal fields with the national rail networ...
