Saint Louis-San Francisco (SLSF) 4018 - Lima 2-8-2

Re-upload working on completing this album again.

on display

on display

Frisco 4018 is on display at the Sloss Furnace National Historic Landmark, a monument to the city's industrial past; the locomotive is owned by the city of Birmingham.

Frisco steam engine on display at Sloss Furnace.

Frisco 4018 on display at Sloss Furnace.

Frisco steam engine rests at 32nd St. Only wanting to be ran again!

NS trains meet at 32nd St.

Generations apart yet only a few feet from each other.

PRR 20800 then StLSFRR 4018.

Frisco reflections.

Gloomy future? Will vandals rule? Will Sloss restore her cosmetically?

Somethin's missing!

Recently moved SLSF 2-8-2 at Sloss Furnace.

Frisco 2-8-2 4018 on display at Sloss Furnace in Birmingham, Al. ( 32nd Street Interlocking ). Visitors have been coming from all over just to get shots of this

This is the third lift of the day.

Coming down

Tall cranes and big engines make for great photos. Look at those crystal blues skys.

Clear of the flat and everyone likes what they see.

Fronend is clear of the flat.

Flying high and right.

The Japanesse wish they had a flying machine this good looking. One Mikado airborn.

And we have Lift off.

Setting down on the ground for the last time. Next lift was to the rail.

Here we go!

Lowering the second crane into position.

Second crane is swinging into place.

Front end ready to go

Craneworks is setting up for the first lift of the day.

front end is rigged and ready to go.

Historic Machinery uses a gouger to cut away the wheel chaulks

Craneworks rigging the front end for first lift of the day

Craneworks rigging the front end for first lift of the day

Craneworks rigging the front end for first lift of the day

Craneworks rigging the front end for first lift of the day

400 Ton crane looms high over head.

CSX pushed the Mike up on the old Seaboard from Boyles yard then night before.

Gouging the welds in the background and torchiing the cables in the foreground.

Cool morning air, 33 to be exact. Notice the one line left on the pole above the engine. Nobody wanted to claim it as theirs.

Suns up, lets get to work.

Move day at Sloss Furnaces