Thanks for the replies thus far. I am still hoping that someone will have
information on the wreck the #410 was involved in.
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "mardechris" <mardechris@...> wrote:
>
> i! My name is Marde and I am addicted to trains. I learn by listening and
> watching others who have much more knowledge about trains than I do. Thanks
> many wonderful internet sites and books, books and more books I am able to
> learn about the many things pertaining to trains and railroading in general
> and very seldom
> have to ask questions.
>
> This kind of sounds like an introduction to TA, better known as 'Trains
> Anonymous'!
>
> I do have a request for information. I am hunting any information, pictures
> and/or diagrams I can find on FW&D #410. All of my research is given to the T
> & P Depot Museum in Marshall, Texas, where FW&D #410 now resides.
>
>
> Let me tell you a little bit of what I do know.
>
> T&P #400 started out with the FW&D as engine #410. She was one of ten 2-8-2
> Mikados (#401 thru #410) built by Baldwin in 1915 for FW&D. She had her
> picture taken in Wichita Falls in 1932 by Otto Perry. She was sold to T&P
> (and renumbered/painted to T&P #400) in 1957 to be used in the flooded areas
> of the Red River. Trains magazine has a page dedicated to her from August
> 1957. FW&D #410 (T&P #400) was placed in the Marshall city park in 1963
> where she lived until 2008. Part of her life in the park was spent
> enclosed in a building due to asbestos. In May of 2008 #400 was moved to the
> T&P depot where she will be restored to a static display.
>
> I found an article about railway preservation that said #400 was 'heavily
> rebuilt and modernized' in 1940. What exactly would have been done to her at
> during the rebuild? It also made mention of a breakage that was too costly
> to repair that attributed to being retired. Does anyone know what this
> breakage could have been? From what I understand, when the #400 was moved to
> the city park, she moved there under her own power.
>
> I have heard that she was wrecked in the 1940s, but I can not find any
> documentation or pictures on the wreck. When facing #410 from the front, you
> can see the date "1946" on the frame under the smoke box. I assume this is
> from the wreck.
>
> In "The Colorado Road" there is a diagram of FW&D #401 thru #410. What are
> the chances of the drawings still existing for this particular group of
> locomotives?
>
> I would appreciate any information, stories, and hopefully pictures that you
> all would like to share. Did I mention pictures? I have located a few --the
> Otto Perry picture from 1932 is the one I can find of her under FW&D. Also,
> "The Colorado Road" by Hol Wagner, Jr. has a picture of her The Trains
> article has pictures as T&P. All other pictures I have found are after she
> was retired and put in the park.
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> Marde
>
> *new member of
> Trains Anonymous
>
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