- Vintage Gettysburg Railroad Brochure x- Mississippian Baldwin #76 with history

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Vintage Gettysburg Railroad Brochure x-
Mississippian Baldwin #76 w/history
Full color bi-fold brochure for tourist excursion steam railroad. Includes map and schedule of events. Folded: 8.5 by 3.75 inches. Flat: 8.5 by 10.75. In excellent, like new condition.
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Based on the history below, and from the prices from other timetables I have, this is from 1990 or earlier
Builder: The Baldwin Locomotive Works
Built: December 1920
Construction No. 54265
Wheel Arrangement: 2-8-0 (Consolidation)
Cylinder Bore & Stroke: 19×24
Driver Diameter: 51-inch
Boiler Pressure: 200psi
Tractive Effort: 29,050Lbs.
Engine Weight: 136,000Lbs.
Weight on Drivers: 121,000Lbs.
Fuel: Coal
Built for: Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern Railroad Company as #40
Lease: 11/1925 to St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company and numbered 76
Sale: 02/1947 to Mississippian Railway as #76 at Amory, MS
Sale: 09/1967 to Sloan Cornell (Penn View Mountain #76) at Blairsville, PA
Moved to Gettysburg, PA (Gettysburg Railway #76) in July 1976
Originally built for the Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern Railroad as number 40, she was renumbered 76 when leased to the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company, commonly known as the FRISCO.
In 1947, this 68-ton 2-8-0 was sold to the Mississippian Railway and was one of two ex-Frisco locomotives on the 24-mile all-steam railroad. Its two consolidations were kept in topnotch condition by a unique team of two brothers. Each brother had his “own” engine. Jim Carlisle normally operated No. 76, while his brother Frank operated No. 77. Depending on whose locomotive was in service on any given day, one man was engineer and the other served as the conductor. The Mississippian ran from Amory to Fulton, MS in the northeast corner of the state and was known as “the Bentonite Road” in reference to its primary freight, a clay bonding material used in foundry work.
In 1967, Sloan Cornell purchased #76 for his Penn View Mountain tourist line in Blairsville, PA. Later, in 1976, Cornell moved his operation including #76 to Gettysburg, PA and started the Gettysburg Railroad.
The Ohio Central purchased #76 from Cornell in 1999 and trucked the consolidation to Newcomerstown, OH that summer. There the 2-8-0 was returned to the rails and towed to the Ohio Central’s Morgan Run Shops. 76 sat on the Ohio Central deadline waiting its turn in the shop for restoration until the spring of 2005 when the SRI purchased it to power its excursion trains over the Tuscola & Saginaw Bay Railway Co.