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OHCR #13

OHCR 2-8-0 No. 13 Specifications
Builder:	The American Locomotive Company (Brooks Works)
Built:	January 1920
Wheel Arrrangement:	2-8-0 (Consolidation)
Driver Diameter:	56 inches
Boiler Pressure:	185 psi
Tractive Effort:	43,500 lbs.
Engine Weight:	197,000 pounds
Weight on Drivers:	171,000 pounds
CPR Class:	G-7s
Fuel:	Coal
Status:	OPERATIONAL

Built for: Kelly's Creek & Northwestern Railroad Company as #6 at Ward.WV
Sale: (date unknown) to Midwest Steel Corp. (dealer)
Sale: 1954 to The Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad Company at Dundon, WV & renumbered 13
Sale: 1964 to William Stader at Somerset, PA
Sale: 1971 to South Penn Museum at Altoona, PA, renumbered 622 & moved to Ridgley, WV (date unknown)
Foreclosure: 1975 to Harrisonberg Bank
Sale: 12/1976 to American Railroad Equipment Association (dealer)
Sale: 12/1976 to Robert Spaugh at Elkhart, IN
Sale: 05/1977 to Lake Shore Railroad Historical Foundation at Elkhart, IN & renumbered 1977.
In July 1978 moved to Middlebury, IN and in February 1980 moved to Logansport, IN
Sale: 07/1983 to Logansport Iron Horse Festival Committee
Sale: to Jerry J. Jacobson 11/1992
Moved to Coshocton, OH 02/1993

Originally built as Kelly's Creek & Northwestern Railroad Company #6, Locomotive #13 was one of three well-kept 2-8-0's on the Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad. The BC&G purchased the consul from Midwest Steel Corporation in 1954 and immediately put her to work on the 18.6 miles between Dundon and Widen, WV. Famous for pulling coal trains on the BC&G, she also hauled timber and lesser freight on this West Virginia shortline. 13 and her sisters transported a million tons of coal per year, a feat which gained them respect and admiration from all who maintained and ran them.

Following retirement in the early sixties, #13 saw service on many small and short lived tourist operations until 1980, when she was moved to Logansport, IN. Here she was fired up and ran for the Iron Horse Festival each year.

Then late in 1992, she was purchased by Jerry Jacobson as a back-up locomotive to #1551 for his Ohio Central Sugarcreek operation. Returned to service in 1994, 13 takes turns pulling passengers to Baltic and back during the operating season. In 1997, she made her return to the "high-iron" pulling a 12-car coal train with an authentic red caboose for Ohio Central's first ever "SteamFest"