#The knox and kane railroad story 1991 windows#
What follows is everything I know about these cars, courtesy of an absolutely incredible roster produced by the late Robert Emery which now resides at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY:Įxterior: Arch-roof locomotive-hauled coach five roof ventilators diaphragms porthole windows in end sheets lightweight trucks. Here's the details for the P54D class of LIRR cars, aka the "Ping-Pongs," as built:ġ-138, American Car & Foundry, Mar-Oct 1927Ĥ22-451, American Car & Foundry, Jun 1922-Jun 1923Ĥ62-481, American Car & Foundry, Apr 1926Īs mentioned before, many (but not all) were modernized and renumbered into the 7000 series. I think it will perform very nicely at the track speeds the A&A uses on excursions. Thankfully, the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum has obtained a Knox & Kane "Ping" and will be moving it to their Museum at Oyster Bay, Long Island early in 2009. Today on Long Island the hatred of "Ping Pongs" has turned into a love affair with "Ping Pongs." I have personally taken heat for not "saving" a P54 coach at the Railroad Museum of Long Island, (that is a story for another thread and another time ).
They were hot in summer, no air conditioning - only open windows, and the ride was - as the thread states - terrible. These cars were everywhere on the LIRR and to my knowledge they were hated by the commuters. The thread also has an excellent photo of a P54 in Long Island livery. 40's title as the railroad's largest locomotive.Here is another thread regarding the source of the moniker "Ping Pong!" It has since become one of the railroad's regular road locomotives, and took locomotive No. Restoration was completed in 2011, and the locomotive entered revenue service on November 25, 2011, pulling the North Pole Express. The new owners planned to restore the locomotive to operating condition, and simultaneously transform its appearance to that of a New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad locomotive, to be numbered 3025. On October 10, the locomotive was purchased at a liquidation auction by the Valley Railroad. Its cab was lined with wood, which was utterly destroyed. The locomotive was severely damaged, more so than its housemate, the 2-8-0 No. In storage in an engine house in Kane, locomotive 58 and other rolling stock was subjected to an early morning arson attack on March 16, 2008. The locomotive ran for the Knox and Kane between 1990 and spring of 2006, when the railroad ceased all operations. Sloan Cornel, the founder of the Knox and Kane Railroad, purchased the locomotive at an undisclosed cost, and it arrived in Pennsylvania in the beginning of 1990. Knox and Kane Railroad 1658, as it was then known, was one of three China Railways SY class steam locomotives that were built by the Tangshan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works in 1989 exclusively for tourist operations in the United States. It was purchased by the Valley Railroad Company in 2008 and has since been rebuilt as a functional replica of a New Haven J-1 "Mikado" locomotive and re-numbered 3025. Valley Railroad 3025 is a China Railways SY class steam locomotive that was built in 1989 by the Tangshan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works for the Knox and Kane Railroad, where it spent its life until that railroad's demise. Knox and Kane Railroad, Connecticut Valley Railroad
Tangshan Locomotive and Rolling Stock WorksĤ ft 8 + 1⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge
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