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By:Gary Everhart
Dates:4/30/2014 - 4/30/2014
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Ameristar Casino #5
Title:  Ameristar Casino #5
Description:  This "Prairie-type" 2-6-2 1912 Baldwin started life out as a logging steam engine #101 for the Industrial Lumber Company but renumbered later to #5 but her life didn't end there.
Photo Date:  4/17/2014  Upload Date: 4/30/2014 6:11:56 AM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  CPC 5(2-6-2)
Views:  225   Comments: 0
Ameristar Casino #5
Title:  Ameristar Casino #5
Description:  She was sold to the Calcasier Paper Company, another logging comapny in the same town, Elizabeth, LA. But it didn't end there.
Photo Date:  4/17/2014  Upload Date: 4/30/2014 6:12:04 AM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  CPC 5(2-6-2)
Views:  226   Comments: 0
Ameristar Casino #5
Title:  Ameristar Casino #5
Description:  She was retired in 1964 from the Calcasieu Paper Company and sold to railfan C. William Witbeck who operated it on the paper mill's trackage. But it didn't end there.
Photo Date:  4/17/2014  Upload Date: 4/30/2014 6:12:18 AM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  CPC 5(2-6-2)
Views:  112   Comments: 0
Ameristar Casino #5
Title:  Ameristar Casino #5
Description:  She was eventually sold by C. William Witbeck to Ronald Bergset of Lougheed, Alberta. But it didn't end there.
Photo Date:  4/17/2014  Upload Date: 4/30/2014 6:12:28 AM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  CPC 5(2-6-2)
Views:  125   Comments: 0
Ameristar Casino #5
Title:  Ameristar Casino #5
Description:  After being sold to Ronald Bergesth of Lougheed, Alberta she was resold in 2005 to the Three Valley Gap Heritage Ghost Town & Round House of Three Valley Gap, BC. But it didn't end there.
Photo Date:  4/17/2014  Upload Date: 4/30/2014 6:12:36 AM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  CPC 5(2-6-2)
Views:  177   Comments: 0
Ameristar Casino #5
Title:  Ameristar Casino #5
Description:  The Three Valley Gap Heritage Ghost Town & Round House of British Columbia finally sold her to the casino for this remarkable display in Missouri. Now she sits. Maybe heer story isn't over yet.
Photo Date:  4/17/2014  Upload Date: 4/30/2014 6:12:44 AM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  CPC 5(2-6-2)
Views:  138   Comments: 0
Ameristar Casino #5
Title:  Ameristar Casino #5
Description:  Interesting note is another Industrial Lumber Company/Calcasieu Paper Company 2-6-2 sister engine, #107, was still running at the Fort Edmonton Park, Edmonton, Alberta, as of 2006.
Photo Date:  4/17/2014  Upload Date: 4/30/2014 6:12:51 AM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  CPC 5(2-6-2)
Views:  125   Comments: 0
Ameristar Casino #5
Title:  Ameristar Casino #5
Description:  Maybe #5 could be reborn as a running steam engine in the future like her sister was up in Edmonton, Alberta.
Photo Date:  4/17/2014  Upload Date: 4/30/2014 6:12:57 AM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  CPC 5(2-6-2)
Views:  205   Comments: 0
Ameristar Casino #5
Title:  Ameristar Casino #5
Description:  Only time will tell if this is the final resting place for this interesting steam engine with the rich background!
Photo Date:  4/17/2014  Upload Date: 4/30/2014 6:13:01 AM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  CPC 5(2-6-2)
Views:  194   Comments: 1


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