Everett Railroad #11, April 26 2025

Have meant to visit for a while. This is Everett Railroad #11, a 2-6-0 Mogul that would have been typical power for a small branch line or local service.

This locomotive was built by Alco in 1923 for export to Cuba, but didn't find a buyer there. Instead it served on short lines in the US to end up on the Bath & Hammondsport. Retired from service there and kept safe in a barn, it would enter preservation and make its way to restoration at Everett. They converted it to oil firing in 2020. Apparently it had originally been built for oil and converted to coal in revenue service.

Normally I prefer coal, but as I have said I'd rather see oil fired than not operating at all. And really, the smell wasn't what I expected it to be like. You mostly smell the steam exhaust anyway, and when you do catch a whiff of the oil its the same familiar hot soot smell as you can get from coal or from wood fired engines.