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Published: 2010-03-11 02:46:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 4283; Favourites: 109; Downloads: 126
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Grapevine Vintage Railroad № 2248 sits at the Grapevine Depot on 17 December 2006. Built in 1896 by the Cooke Locomotive works for the Southern Pacific Railroad, this engine is one of the oldest engines in regular service in the United States. As of this posting (10 March 2010), she just returned to service after being down for a year and a half for repairing a blown out cylinder (the one you can see in this picture, actually) and her annual boiler check.Related content
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last Saturday on august 27 of 2016 i went to the grapevine vintage RR since 2008. i never saw 2248 running, but while on the 27 i never saw it running but i asked this one guy that was in a baggage car running a model train exibit where the locomotive was and he said the shed next to it. so i walked over there and for the first time i saw her. she was being worked on cause of her 15 year check up. but she was still fully functional, well until they get everything into place. i stood there just staring at her. and idk if it was a sign i was going crazy but i felt her talking to me....saying hello. and i said hello back. one engineer that was being interviewed on a dvd of great scenic railway journeys was driving number 734 and he said in one clip that with a steam engine you talk to it, and it talks back. i guess he was right, but in vise versa. though just staring at that old gallent lady from the 1890s was just.....so......breath taking and or satisfying. steam engines are just so amazing. and that's the way it will stay until the end of time. (srry if theres any grammar problems in some of my words)
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#2248 was built by Cooke Locomotive Works in July 1896 at first as #1829. She was renumbered to #2248 in 1901 and was assigned to fire train service until more modern methods were developed. From March 15th, 1945 - March 10th, 1949 she was leased to the Pacific Fruit Express . It was then on onto display use until she was retired from service on May 3rd, 1961 (completing 65 years of service). It was then sold to the Purdy Co. Scrapyard on May 8th, 1961 and was later sold to C.T. Brown for tourist use in California. In 1974, it was sold to the Texas State Railroad as their #200 and was used for 5 years. In 1990, she was sold to the Fort Worth & Western Railroad where it operated until 1999 when her boiler needed some repairs. It was repaired in 2001 and was later sold to the Grapevine Vintage Railroad in 2004 where she works today.
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No, I mean regular service. The fact is that the regular service it runs on is excursions.
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in regular service, you mean excursion service, right?
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Yeah, it was something like the third week for the fireman, and he was still getting used to her.
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Nice coat of oil on the Sand Dome! Someones runnin' her a lil rich.
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