PRESERVED ORENSTEIN & KOPPEL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES
LOCATION | Alton & Pacific Railroad, Alton, California, USA |
RAILWAY NUMBER | 5 |
RAILWAY | Franz Heimer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany |
WHEEL ARRANGEMENT | Bt |
HORSE POWER | 50 |
GAUGE | 600mm |
BUILDER | O&K |
BUILDER’S NUMBER | 12676 |
YEAR BUILT | 1935 |
PREVIOUS
RAILWAYS AND NUMBERS |
delivered new to Franz Heimer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany |
CONDITION | good, stored under cover, in working order until about 1985 |
PHOTO BY | MM |
PLACE AND DATE | Alton, August 1988 |
NOTES | for many years the loco worked tourist trains on the small circuit of track on Frank Bayliss' estate in Alton. Increasing insurance premiums made it more and more difficult and uneconomic to run the trains, and services ceased in the late 1980s. The whole railway was sold to an investor who planned to move it to Guam, but that hasn't happened yet. See Harry Marnell's website, which is updated periodically, for many more photos, a map of the line, and much more. |