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Away She Goes
16 trundles south back to Rockhill, with a train much shorter than the one that made her a legend on the railroad when she was new in 1916.
The story, as told by Steve Painter to Dr. Lee Rainey from his oral histories collected from former employees, was that the mines were low on empties, and 16's crew, waiting for orders for a return south, gathered up every empty hopper they could find in the Mount Union yard. They built a 60 car train and started south. By the time they arrived in Rockhill, after barely making it over McMullin's Summit, management was already calling Baldwin to order two more engines just like it.
Away She Goes
16 trundles south back to Rockhill, with a train much shorter than the one that made her a legend on the railroad when she was new in 1916.
The story, as told by Steve Painter to Dr. Lee Rainey from his oral histories collected from former employees, was that the mines were low on empties, and 16's crew, waiting for orders for a return south, gathered up every empty hopper they could find in the Mount Union yard. They built a 60 car train and started south. By the time they arrived in Rockhill, after barely making it over McMullin's Summit, management was already calling Baldwin to order two more engines just like it.