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Kentucky & Tennessee Railway #1 was originally Stearns Coal & Lumber Company #1.
photo by S.P. Guthrie From "Ghost Railroads of Kentucky", Indiana University Press
1903, 2-8-0, built by Schnectady (Alco), C/N 27409 22 x 26" cylinders, driver diameter 51". Purchased new, scrapped 1953
No photo available
Kentucky & Tennessee Railway #2
1904, Shay, built by Lima, C/N 874 10 x 12" cylinders, driver diameter 291/2". Purchased new, sold to Ga. Car & Loco and became Grasse River #6
No photo available
Kentucky & Tennessee Railway #3
1905, Shay, built by Lima, C/N 1530 10 x 12" cylinders, driver diameter 291/2". Purchased new, sold to Raleigh Lbr. Co. 1909, SI&E #720, Smokey Mtn. #1, Ritter Lbr. #5. Scrapped 1942
No photo available
Kentucky & Tennessee Railway #4
1906, Shay, built by Lima, C/N 1675 10 x 12" cylinders, driver diameter 291/2". Purchased new, sold to Millstead Mfg., 1909
No photo available
Kentucky & Tennessee Railway #5
1881, 0-4-0T, built by Porter, C/N 406. Ex-Lucy Furnace #3 to SI&E #1211, Pittsburgh Constr. #5 1917
No photo available
Kentucky & Tennessee Railway #6
1877, 0-6-0T, built by Baldwin, C/N 4202. Ex-Memphis & Little Rock #16, Cincinnati Equip. Scrapped 1920
Kentucky & Tennessee Railway #7
builder' photo
1908, 2-8-2, built by Baldwin, C/N 32763. 21 x 24" cylinders, driver diameter 44". Purchased new. Scrapped 1951
Kentucky & Tennessee Railway #7
photo by John B. Allen. From "Ghost Railroads of Kentucky", Indiana University Press
Kentucky & Tennessee Railway #8
builder's photo from K & T Railway Office
1911, 2-6-2, built by Baldwin, C/N 37269. 20 x 24" cylinders, driver diameter 51". Purchased new. Scrapped 1951
Kentucky & Tennessee Railway #8
photo by John B. Allen. From "Ghost Railroads of Kentucky", Indiana University Press
No photo available
Kentucky & Tennessee Railway #9
1907, 2-6-0, built by Pittsburgh, C/N 44416. Ex-Atlantic Eqpt. & Const. #1, SA&N #1. Scrapped 1940
Kentucky & Tennessee Railway #10
photographer unknown
1920, 2-8-2, built by Baldwin, C/N 53182. 24 x 30" cylinders, driver diameter 56". Purchased new. To TN Valley Rwy. Museum 1964
K & T #10 was one of the last three steam locomotives that were active on the K & T carrying freight in the early 1960's. #10 is currently in storage at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga, TN.
Kentucky & Tennessee Railway #11
builder's photo in K & T Railway Office
1922, 2-8-2, built by Schenectady (ALCo), C/N 63271. 25 x 30" cylinders, driver diameter 56". Purchased new. To Aberdeen Proving Grounds, 1963. Accidentally destroyed by artillery on gunnery range.
Kentucky & Tennessee Railway #11
photographer unknown
K & T #11 was also in service long enough to see the arrival of the diesel-electric ALCO S-2's that would retire her and her two sisters. She was relocated to a military base moving artillery gunnery targets. Unfortunately, she met a sad end when one of the shells missed and hit #11 instead.
Kentucky & Tennessee Railway #12
photographer unknown
1911, 2-8-2, built by Baldwin, C/N 37085. 27 x 30" cylinders, driver diameter 63". Ex-Sou. Rwy 4501, to Paul H. Merriman/TN Valley Rwy. Museum 1964
#12 is undoubtedly one of the best known K & T steam locomotives. Originally purchased used from the Southern Railway, #12 was sold to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum and was returned to her Southern #4501 number and paint scheme. She served many years carrying passengers on the Southern Railway Steam Excursion trips and later years in service at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga, TN.
K & T #12 pulling the grade near Hemlock, KY
(photo courtesy of Craig Myers)
It's September 1959 and Lynford (Bud) Swearer caught K&T #12 spotting 60 ton coal hoppers on the scale track at Stearns, KY.
The date is October 8, 1961 and the days of K & T steam are drawing to a close when Lynford "Bud" Swearer caught K & T #11 taking on water while a Southern Passenger train passes by on its way south on the old Cincinnati Southern mainline. The diesels would arrive in just two short years ending over 60 years of steam on the K & T.
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