>>1245413There a quite a few floating around the United States. There are the standard gauge eight coupled locos that get a lot of press, but there are also quite a few smaller steam locomotives still running out there, especially industrial tank locomotives made by H K Porter and Vulcan Ironworks. One of my favorites is a one off 4-6-2 Pacific built for the Little River Railroad by Baldwin. The LRRR #110 is the smallest standard gauge Pacific built in the US weighing in at 99.5 tons empty. It was built in 1911 and has been in near continuous service except for a 20 year period of storage starting in the late 1950's. It's early life was spent hauling passenger trains on logging logging railroads in Tennessee and was built with rough track and tight curves in mind. The center drivers are blind and the #110 is particularly sure-footed over rough track.
