D&RGW 223: The boiler has been taken off

ctjacks · **Posted:** Tue Apr 26, 2016 1:16 pm

Does the restoring group have a place or plans to operate this engine? Will it be tied to one railroad, or travel around?

Chris

Frisco1522 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 26, 2016 1:58 pm

Must have been an interesting lift to move the 278 off that piece of bridge. I liked driving back to the dam and thinking about all the little engines that battled through that cut.

philip.marshall · **Posted:** Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:41 pm

Kelly Anderson wrote:

I was told that #223 is the last Grant locomotive extant. Is that correct?

I think there is supposed to be one other surviving Grant locomotive, a 2-6-0 from the Texas & St. Louis Railway (predecessor of the Cotton Belt) that's now in Illinois. It was also originally narrow gauge, but it found its way to the Henry Ford collection and Ford decided to convert it to standard gauge.

-Philip Marshall

Brian Norden · **Posted:** Tue Apr 26, 2016 9:02 pm

philip.marshall wrote:

Kelly Anderson wrote:

I was told that #223 is the last Grant locomotive extant. Is that correct?

I think there is supposed to be one other surviving Grant locomotive, a 2-6-0 from the Texas & St. Louis Railway (predecessor of the Cotton Belt) that's now in Illinois. It was also originally narrow gauge, but it found its way to the Henry Ford collection and Ford decided to convert it to standard gauge.

According to J. David Conrad's The Steam Locomotive Directory of North America (1988) that is the case. He has a bunch of question marks about the early numbers, etc. for the locomotive. The Ford Institute sold the locomotive in 1985; at the time Conrad complied the list it was reported in Texas.