Steven Saine Railfan Productions | Tweetsie Railroad: #190 5-21-2022 @stevensainerailfanproductions | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
Tweetsie Railroad: #190 5-21-2022. Once again, we are back to Tweetsie Railroad to see they're second locomotive. The "Yukon Queen" #190.
190 was built in 1943 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, as a 3-foot narrow gauge, 2-8-2, S118 locomotive for U.S. Army. During World War II the Army took over the White Pass and Yukon Railroad. 190 hauled military supplies from the Yukon territory in Canada to the port in Skagway Alaska. After the war was over, 190 was shifted to regular operations on the White Pass and Yukon Route. In the 1950s 190 was retired and placed in storage in Skagway until 1960. Grover Robins Jr purchased it for his Tweetsie Railroad, sent it Seattle by barge, sent it to North Carolina by train, then sent to the Southern Railway's Hickory shops for restoration, then hauled by truck to Blowing Rock to join locomotive #12 at Tweetsie. #190 has been operating at Tweetsie Railroad ever since.
The only thing cosmetically different on 190 from last year is the classification lights next to the flags.
Tweetsie Railroad: #190 5-21-2022. Once again, we are back to Tweetsie Railroad to see they're second locomotive. The "Yukon Queen" #190.
190 was built in 1943 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, as a 3-foot narrow gauge, 2-8-2, S118 locomotive for U.S. Army. During World War II the Army took over the White Pass and Yukon Railroad. 190 hauled military supplies from the Yukon territory in Canada to the port in Skagway Alaska. After the war was over, 190 was shifted to regular operations on the White Pass and Yukon Route. In the 1950s 190 was retired and placed in storage in Skagway until 1960. Grover Robins Jr purchased it for his Tweetsie Railroad, sent it Seattle by barge, sent it to North Carolina by train, then sent to the Southern Railway's Hickory shops for restoration, then hauled by truck to Blowing Rock to join locomotive #12 at Tweetsie. #190 has been operating at Tweetsie Railroad ever since.
The only thing cosmetically different on 190 from last year is the classification lights next to the flags.
