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Thanks for posting! Mr. David Kloke built the entire train from scratch - a remarkable achievement indeed!

 

In 2013, after excursions in New York state, Mr. Kloke trucked his LEVIATHAN to New Freedom, PA, where she ran on the historic Northern Central Railway with her younger sister, No. 17, the YORK, under the auspices of Steam into History. Mr. Kloke had built No. 17 to the blueprints of his LEVIATHAN. She had rolled out of Kloke Locomotive Works, Elgin, IL, in May, 2013.

 

When I asked Mr. Kloke to pose for a photo at Hanover Junction, where President Abraham Lincoln had changed trains to deliver his Gettysburg Address, he insisted we include these two charming young ladies from Steam into History

 

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The LEVIATHAN at New Freedom

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The LEVIATHAN stands on the former main at Hanover Junction, facing York, Harrisburg, and Sunbury.

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The LEVIATHAN faces Hanover on the diverging branch to Gettysburg.

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No. 17, the YORK, at Hanover Junction, facing New Freedom

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Mr. Kloke uses these trucks to haul the LEVIATHAN and her tender

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Vicki Gemmill took this photo in December, 2013.

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Originally Posted by GlennRJr:

They are fantastic engines.  Do they burn wood or are they more modern in the fuel department ?

 

 

Glenn

 Both burn oil to eliminate cinders and ashes. Modern oil-fired locomotives have small firedoors (844, 4449). But the LEVIATHAN and the YORK have larger firedoors as seen in my photo above.

Come to think of it, in one scene years ago of Sierra 4-6-0 No. 3 taking on water, a spout is lowered not into the water hatch in back of the tender but into a fuel oil tank in front - about the size of a water heater. A woodpile concealed it, but in that one scene the wood was moved back. I was so surprised that I didn't write down date, time and show. I think it was a TV show. It was one for a few seconds and then gone. As I recall, no water came out, which was good.

 

It wasn't PETTICOAT JUNCTION. I haven't seen it since.

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