PRESERVED ORENSTEIN & KOPPEL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES


LOCATION Alton & Pacific Railroad, Alton, California, USA
RAILWAY NUMBER 5
RAILWAY Franz Heimer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
WHEEL ARRANGEMENT Bt
HORSE POWER 50
GAUGE 600mm
BUILDER O&K
BUILDER’S NUMBER 12676
YEAR BUILT 1935
PREVIOUS 
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delivered new to Franz Heimer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
CONDITION good, stored under cover, in working order until about 1985
PHOTO BY MM
PLACE AND DATE Alton, August 1988
NOTES for many years the loco worked tourist trains on the small circuit of track on Frank Bayliss' estate in Alton. Increasing insurance premiums made it more and more difficult and uneconomic to run the trains, and services ceased in the late 1980s. The whole railway was sold to an investor who planned to move it to Guam, but that hasn't happened yet. See Harry Marnell's website, which is updated periodically, for many more photos, a map of the line, and much more.