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MONON Trains => Steam Locomotives => Topic started by: Eric Reinert on November 18, 2019, 04:20:53 pm

Title: Steam locomotives loaned to KCS during WW2
Post by: Eric Reinert on November 18, 2019, 04:20:53 pm

I found a couple articles from the July and November 2018 (page 7-9) issues of the Arkansas-Boston Mountains Chapter of the NRHS. Very interesting reading that shows the Monon leased a batch of engines to the Kansas City Southern in Arkansas during the 1942-1944 timeframe. I knew about Pacific # 412 since there's a nice color photo I've seen before of it in service on the KCS, but didn't know about the 0-6-0, 2-10-2's (600, 601 and 606) or the Mikados (502, 511 and 524). I had to laugh that they considered B-9 0-6-0 #37 as too heavy (monstrous) for their use, after having broken so many yard rails in Fort Smith.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/dayoneweb/364/1811.pdf

https://condrenrails.com/FSVB/Engine-Terminals/Huber-KCS-3.htm

Title: Re: Steam locomotives loaned to KCS during WW2
Post by: Eric Reinert on January 22, 2020, 05:19:10 pm

Found on eBay: purportedly Monon 2-10-2 606 on the Kansas City Southern.