🔺NOTE: I buy and sell antique farm equipment quite often, so I went into “evaluating mode”, and I wish I didn’t. If you wish to mute the video, that’s perfectly fine, it really is just a walk-around of her current condition as of posting the video.🔺
At the National Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood, Missouri on June 21st, 2020.
Southern Pacific #4460 is a GS-6 - one of three remaining GS class locomotives now in existence - and is the ONLY surviving GS-6. The other GS locomotives include the famous “Daylight” Southern Pacific #4449 - a GS-4, and the lesser known L-1 “Cotton Belt” #819 - an SP reclassified GS-8.
A tender from another GS-6 (under the Western Pacific name, and classed as a GS-64, #484) exists as well. A driver wheel from #4422, a GS-3, also exists at the Rail Giants Museum in California. SP #4460 is the last steam engine to EVER run on the Southern Pacific, and was the last locomotive to pull an excursion train in late October of 1958. Her fire was dumped shortly thereafter with only a few days on her boiler ticket left, and she has been dormant ever since.
Mechanical restoration is highly unlikely, but never say never, for the impossible has been done before (the T1 project, Big Boy 4014, etc.). The older volunteer I spoke with while hanging around the engine discussed the possibility of cosmetically restoring her, but a date has not been provided, and it did not sound like he was really wanting to make it a priority on the list of projects that the museum has. He has been a volunteer there since the late 1970s.
My plan is to volunteer there in the future, and at the minimum make her paint shine again. Provided that I have the time and ambition.
My visual inspection was more of a walkaround video than an actual inspection. However, she is not in as bad of shape with decay than I thought she would be - but that is what is visible on the outside - what she hides on the inside is a different and unknown story (Especially compared to the Big Boy they have - it’s in slightly better shape to the eye).
Side Note; Norfolk and Western’s Y6a, #2156 is parked next to #4460 with her “running gear” reinstalled after her journey from the Virginia Museum of Transportation after a five year loan.
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