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Southern Railway 722

January 01, 1970

Southern Railway 722 is a class "Ks-1" 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive built in September 1904 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works to run on the Murphy Branch, where it hauled freight trains between Asheville and Murphy, North Carolina for the Southern Railway (SOU). In 1952, it was purchased by the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (ET&WNC), alongside its sister locomotive No. 630, where they were served as switchers around Johnson City and Elizabethton, Tennessee.

Southern Railway 722
Southern Railway 722 with Savannah and Atlanta 750 double heading an excursion train in August 1971
Type and origin
Power typeSteam
BuilderBaldwin Locomotive Works
Serial number24729
Build dateSeptember 1904
Rebuild date1918
1968–1970
2023–ongoing
Specifications
Configuration:
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 • Whyte2-8-0
Gauge4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Driver dia.56 in (1.422 m)
Loco weight214,000 lb (97,000 kg)
Fuel typeCoal
Fuel capacity16 t (16 long tons; 18 short tons)
Water cap.7,500 US gal (28,000 L; 6,200 imp gal)
Boiler pressure190 psi (1.31 MPa)
CylindersTwo, outside
Cylinder size24 in × 30 in (610 mm × 762 mm)
Valve gearSouthern (formerly Stephenson)
Performance figures
Tractive effort46,700 lb (21,200 kg)
Career
OperatorsSouthern Railway
(1904-1952, 1970-1980)
East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad
(1953-1967)
Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (1980–1985)
ClassKs-1
Numbers
  • SOU 722
  • ET&WNC 208
RetiredAugust 1952 (SOU)
December 8, 1967 (ET&WNC)
November 1985 (1st excursion service)
RestoredAugust 1970 (1st excursion service)
Current ownerGreat Smoky Mountains Railroad
DispositionUndergoing restoration to operating condition

In 1967, Nos. 722 and 630 were both traded back to the SOU for use in their steam excursion program until 1980, when they were sent to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) in Chattanooga, Tennessee to make way for larger steam locomotives haul the longer and heavier excursion trains. In late 1985, No. 722 was taken out of service and was eventually purchased by the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad (GSMR) in late 2000, where it is currently being restored to operating condition, anticipated to be completed around 2026.

History edit

Revenue service edit

No. 722 was built in September 1904 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Southern Railway (SOU), originally as a K class 2-8-0 Consolidation type with Stephenson valve gear, sliding valves, alligator crossheads, and a saturated boiler.[1] No. 722 was assigned to work on SOU's Murphy Branch, where it was primarily used to haul freight trains between Asheville and Murphy, North Carolina.[2][3] In the 1910s, the locomotive was upgraded with Southern valve gear, piston valves, and superheaters, which reclassified No. 722 as a "Ks" type.[1] In the 1920s, it had more upgrades added such as new cylinders and valve assemblies, which allow the locomotive to develop 46,700 lb (21,200 kg) of tractive effort and reclassified again as a "Ks-1" type.[1] During the 1940s, No. 722 was re-equipped with multiple-bearing crossheads.[4]

In August 1952, No. 722 was retired from revenue service after it pulled the last steam-powered freight train on the Murphy Branch.[5] Three months later, No. 722 and sister locomotive No. 630 were both purchased by the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (ET&WNC), where they were served as switchers in Johnson City and Elizabethton, Tennessee.[6][7][a] After ET&WNC's acquirement, Nos. 722 and 630 were renumbered to Nos. 208 and 207, respectively, while their tender coal bunker were cut down to give the engineer a clear view during numerous switching moves and reverse operation.[7] In 1962, No. 208 traveled to Knoxville, Tennessee, where it was filmed in a cameo appearance for the 1963 film All the Way Home.[6][8]

Southern excursion service edit

On December 8, 1967, No. 208 (No. 722) and No. 207 (No. 630) were both traded back to the SOU for use in their steam excursion program in return for a pair of former Central of Georgia ALCO RS-3s.[9] While they retrieved their old numbers, No. 722 had a cracked firebox, but No. 630 was in better condition, and has been given minor repairs as it began excursion service in February 1968.[10]

Two years later, No. 722 had its firebox repaired and was given a brand new paint scheme of SOU's Virginian green with gold linings to match the fellow excursion locomotive No. 4501.[11] The No. 722 locomotive made its first public excursion debut in September 1970 with Nos. 630 and 4501 for the National Railway Historical Society (NRHS) convention in Charleston, South Carolina.[11][12]

In May 1979, SOU loaned No. 722 to the Wilmington and Western Railroad (WWRC) to operate on their Wilmington and Northern Branch line in Wilmington, Delaware.[13][14] In September 1980, SOU loaned the locomotive again to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) in Chattanooga, Tennessee along with No. 630 to make way for larger steam locomotives such as Canadian Pacific 2839, Texas and Pacific 610 and Chesapeake and Ohio 2716 to pull SOU's longer and heavier excursions.[14] While at TVRM, Nos. 722 and 630 were used to pull the short-hauling Missionary Ridge Local excursions.[14][15]

In November 1985, No. 722 was retired due to its boiler ticket certificate and sat on display at TVRM.[14][16] In 1992, the locomotive was moved to Asheville, North Carolina by Southern's successor, Norfolk Southern (NS) to be on display at the city's Biltmore section.[14][16] In December 1999, NS sold the Biltmore property for redevelopment and removed No. 722 from its display site to the Asheville roundhouse for storage.[16][17]

Restoration edit

 
No. 722's classification lights and try cock valves on display at the Swain County Heritage Museum in 2014

In December 2000, the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad (GSMR), which operates a part of the same Murphy Branch where No. 722 was used in revenue service, purchased the locomotive with the hopes of restoring it to operating condition.[2][17] However, when No. 722 was being disassembled for restoration work, the plans were halted due to GSMR's other steam locomotive ex-U.S. Army No. 1702 went out of service in 2005, leaving them both remaining disassembled outside the GSMR's workshop area in Dillsboro, North Carolina, exposed to the elements.[18][19][20]

In 2012, GSMR announced their plan to restore both Nos. 1702 and 722 to operating condition with the restoration cost estimated at $700,000 for each locomotives.[21] In 2017, a year after No. 1702 was restored back to service, GSMR stated that they were still determined to restore the No. 722 locomotive back to operating condition.[22][23]

In late May 2023, GSMR announced that the restoration work of the No. 722 locomotive had commenced, anticipated to be completed by 2026.[24][25] Additionally, No. 722 will be converted from burning coal to oil fuel and will eventually retain its 1970s SOU Virginian green excursion paint scheme once the restoration work is finished.[25] In September 2023, the boiler and driving wheels were shipped off to a workshop in Pennsylvania for repairs.[26]

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Originally, the ET&WNC offered Ks-1s No. 685 (Baldwin, 1904) and No. 835 (Baldwin, 1906), but turned it over in favor of Nos. 630 and 722 due to the formers being stored outside in dilapidated condition.[3][7]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Schafer, Bill, ed. (2018). "First Quarter, 2018". TIES. Vol. 32, no. 1. White River Productions. pp. 22–25.
  2. ^ a b . Asheville.com. Archived from the original on May 2, 2001. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  3. ^ a b Waite (2003), p. 234.
  4. ^ Drury (2015), p. 294.
  5. ^ Plott & Plott (2021), p. 171.
  6. ^ a b Ferrell (1991), pp. 170–171.
  7. ^ a b c Waite (2003), p. 238.
  8. ^ Ferrell (1991), p. 178.
  9. ^ Ferrell (1991), p. 199.
  10. ^ Wrinn (2000), p. 21.
  11. ^ a b Wrinn (2000), pp. 31–32.
  12. ^ Wrinn (2000), p. 111.
  13. ^ Vazquez (2008), p. 43.
  14. ^ a b c d e Wrinn (2000), pp. 54–57.
  15. ^ . Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. Archived from the original on May 24, 2023. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
  16. ^ a b c . SteamCentral. 1999. Archived from the original on March 24, 2018. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  17. ^ a b Wrinn (2000), p. 109.
  18. ^ Harper, Allen C. (October 29, 2012). . Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. American Heritage Railways. Archived from the original on February 24, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  19. ^ Lester, David (January 8, 2019). . Trains. Kalmbach Media. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  20. ^ Plott & Plott (2021), p. 187.
  21. ^ Harper, Allen C. (August 9, 2012). . Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. American Heritage Railways. Archived from the original on February 27, 2021. Retrieved March 10, 2023.
  22. ^ . HeritageRail News. HeritageRail Alliance. May 15, 2017. Archived from the original on June 19, 2022. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  23. ^ Plott & Plott (2021), p. 189.
  24. ^ Franz, Justin (May 23, 2023). . Railfan & Railroad. White River Productions. Archived from the original on May 24, 2023. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
  25. ^ a b Walls, Kord (May 24, 2023). . Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. American Heritage Railways. Archived from the original on May 27, 2023. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
  26. ^ Hodge, Rex (September 18, 2023). . WLOS. Archived from the original on September 20, 2023. Retrieved December 20, 2023.

Bibliography edit

  • Drury, George H. (2015). Guide to North American Steam Locomotives (2nd ed.). Kalmbach Media. ISBN 978-1-62700-259-2.
  • Ferrell, Mallory H. (1991). Tweetsie Country (2nd ed.). The Overmountain Press. ISBN 0-93280758-5.
  • Plott, Jacob; Plott, Bob (2021). Smoky Mountain Railways (1st ed.). The History Press. ISBN 978-1-4671-4459-9.
  • Vazquez, Gisela (2008). The Wilmington and Western Railroad. Images of Rail (1st ed.). Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-5362-7.
  • Waite, John R. (2003). Blue Ridge Stemwinder: An Illustrated History of the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad and the Linville River Railway (1st ed.). Overmountain Press. ISBN 1-57072-272-2.
  • Wrinn, Jim (2000). Steam's Camelot: Southern and Norfolk Southern Excursions in Color (1st ed.). TLC Publishing. ISBN 1-883089-56-5.

External links edit

 
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Southern Railway 722 is a class Ks 1 2 8 0 Consolidation type steam locomotive built in September 1904 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works to run on the Murphy Branch where it hauled freight trains between Asheville and Murphy North Carolina for the Southern Railway SOU In 1952 it was purchased by the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ET amp WNC alongside its sister locomotive No 630 where they were served as switchers around Johnson City and Elizabethton Tennessee Southern Railway 722Southern Railway 722 with Savannah and Atlanta 750 double heading an excursion train in August 1971Type and originPower typeSteamBuilderBaldwin Locomotive WorksSerial number24729Build dateSeptember 1904Rebuild date19181968 19702023 ongoingSpecificationsConfiguration Whyte2 8 0Gauge4 ft 8 1 2 in 1 435 mm Driver dia 56 in 1 422 m Loco weight214 000 lb 97 000 kg Fuel typeCoalFuel capacity16 t 16 long tons 18 short tons Water cap 7 500 US gal 28 000 L 6 200 imp gal Boiler pressure190 psi 1 31 MPa CylindersTwo outsideCylinder size24 in 30 in 610 mm 762 mm Valve gearSouthern formerly Stephenson Performance figuresTractive effort46 700 lb 21 200 kg CareerOperatorsSouthern Railway 1904 1952 1970 1980 East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad 1953 1967 Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum 1980 1985 ClassKs 1NumbersSOU 722ET amp WNC 208RetiredAugust 1952 SOU December 8 1967 ET amp WNC November 1985 1st excursion service RestoredAugust 1970 1st excursion service Current ownerGreat Smoky Mountains RailroadDispositionUndergoing restoration to operating condition In 1967 Nos 722 and 630 were both traded back to the SOU for use in their steam excursion program until 1980 when they were sent to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum TVRM in Chattanooga Tennessee to make way for larger steam locomotives haul the longer and heavier excursion trains In late 1985 No 722 was taken out of service and was eventually purchased by the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad GSMR in late 2000 where it is currently being restored to operating condition anticipated to be completed around 2026 Contents 1 History 1 1 Revenue service 1 2 Southern excursion service 1 3 Restoration 2 See also 3 Notes 4 References 5 Bibliography 6 External linksHistory editRevenue service edit No 722 was built in September 1904 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Southern Railway SOU originally as a K class 2 8 0 Consolidation type with Stephenson valve gear sliding valves alligator crossheads and a saturated boiler 1 No 722 was assigned to work on SOU s Murphy Branch where it was primarily used to haul freight trains between Asheville and Murphy North Carolina 2 3 In the 1910s the locomotive was upgraded with Southern valve gear piston valves and superheaters which reclassified No 722 as a Ks type 1 In the 1920s it had more upgrades added such as new cylinders and valve assemblies which allow the locomotive to develop 46 700 lb 21 200 kg of tractive effort and reclassified again as a Ks 1 type 1 During the 1940s No 722 was re equipped with multiple bearing crossheads 4 In August 1952 No 722 was retired from revenue service after it pulled the last steam powered freight train on the Murphy Branch 5 Three months later No 722 and sister locomotive No 630 were both purchased by the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ET amp WNC where they were served as switchers in Johnson City and Elizabethton Tennessee 6 7 a After ET amp WNC s acquirement Nos 722 and 630 were renumbered to Nos 208 and 207 respectively while their tender coal bunker were cut down to give the engineer a clear view during numerous switching moves and reverse operation 7 In 1962 No 208 traveled to Knoxville Tennessee where it was filmed in a cameo appearance for the 1963 film All the Way Home 6 8 Southern excursion service edit On December 8 1967 No 208 No 722 and No 207 No 630 were both traded back to the SOU for use in their steam excursion program in return for a pair of former Central of Georgia ALCO RS 3s 9 While they retrieved their old numbers No 722 had a cracked firebox but No 630 was in better condition and has been given minor repairs as it began excursion service in February 1968 10 Two years later No 722 had its firebox repaired and was given a brand new paint scheme of SOU s Virginian green with gold linings to match the fellow excursion locomotive No 4501 11 The No 722 locomotive made its first public excursion debut in September 1970 with Nos 630 and 4501 for the National Railway Historical Society NRHS convention in Charleston South Carolina 11 12 In May 1979 SOU loaned No 722 to the Wilmington and Western Railroad WWRC to operate on their Wilmington and Northern Branch line in Wilmington Delaware 13 14 In September 1980 SOU loaned the locomotive again to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum TVRM in Chattanooga Tennessee along with No 630 to make way for larger steam locomotives such as Canadian Pacific 2839 Texas and Pacific 610 and Chesapeake and Ohio 2716 to pull SOU s longer and heavier excursions 14 While at TVRM Nos 722 and 630 were used to pull the short hauling Missionary Ridge Local excursions 14 15 In November 1985 No 722 was retired due to its boiler ticket certificate and sat on display at TVRM 14 16 In 1992 the locomotive was moved to Asheville North Carolina by Southern s successor Norfolk Southern NS to be on display at the city s Biltmore section 14 16 In December 1999 NS sold the Biltmore property for redevelopment and removed No 722 from its display site to the Asheville roundhouse for storage 16 17 Restoration edit nbsp No 722 s classification lights and try cock valves on display at the Swain County Heritage Museum in 2014 In December 2000 the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad GSMR which operates a part of the same Murphy Branch where No 722 was used in revenue service purchased the locomotive with the hopes of restoring it to operating condition 2 17 However when No 722 was being disassembled for restoration work the plans were halted due to GSMR s other steam locomotive ex U S Army No 1702 went out of service in 2005 leaving them both remaining disassembled outside the GSMR s workshop area in Dillsboro North Carolina exposed to the elements 18 19 20 In 2012 GSMR announced their plan to restore both Nos 1702 and 722 to operating condition with the restoration cost estimated at 700 000 for each locomotives 21 In 2017 a year after No 1702 was restored back to service GSMR stated that they were still determined to restore the No 722 locomotive back to operating condition 22 23 In late May 2023 GSMR announced that the restoration work of the No 722 locomotive had commenced anticipated to be completed by 2026 24 25 Additionally No 722 will be converted from burning coal to oil fuel and will eventually retain its 1970s SOU Virginian green excursion paint scheme once the restoration work is finished 25 In September 2023 the boiler and driving wheels were shipped off to a workshop in Pennsylvania for repairs 26 See also editSouthern Railway 154 Southern Railway 385 Southern Railway 401 Southern Railway 1401 W Graham Claytor Jr Portals nbsp Trains nbsp United StatesNotes edit Originally the ET amp WNC offered Ks 1s No 685 Baldwin 1904 and No 835 Baldwin 1906 but turned it over in favor of Nos 630 and 722 due to the formers being stored outside in dilapidated condition 3 7 References edit a b c Schafer Bill ed 2018 First Quarter 2018 TIES Vol 32 no 1 White River Productions pp 22 25 a b Steam Engine Number 722 Returning Home to WNC and Back to Service Asheville com Archived from the original on May 2 2001 Retrieved April 4 2018 a b Waite 2003 p 234 Drury 2015 p 294 Plott amp Plott 2021 p 171 a b Ferrell 1991 pp 170 171 a b c Waite 2003 p 238 Ferrell 1991 p 178 Ferrell 1991 p 199 Wrinn 2000 p 21 a b Wrinn 2000 pp 31 32 Wrinn 2000 p 111 Vazquez 2008 p 43 a b c d e Wrinn 2000 pp 54 57 Missionary Ridge Local Train Rides Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum Archived from the original on May 24 2023 Retrieved June 17 2023 a b c Fourth Quarter 1999 News SteamCentral 1999 Archived from the original on March 24 2018 Retrieved March 24 2018 a b Wrinn 2000 p 109 Harper Allen C October 29 2012 Current status of GSMR Steam Great Smoky Mountains Railroad American Heritage Railways Archived from the original on February 24 2017 Retrieved February 24 2017 Lester David January 8 2019 Requiem for Southern 722 Trains Kalmbach Media Archived from the original on November 12 2020 Retrieved July 19 2021 Plott amp Plott 2021 p 187 Harper Allen C August 9 2012 Fellow Steam Patrons And Railroad Fans Great Smoky Mountains Railroad American Heritage Railways Archived from the original on February 27 2021 Retrieved March 10 2023 Great Smoky Mountains Hosts HRA Spring Meeting HeritageRail News HeritageRail Alliance May 15 2017 Archived from the original on June 19 2022 Retrieved June 19 2022 Plott amp Plott 2021 p 189 Franz Justin May 23 2023 Great Smoky Mountains Railroad to Restore Southern 2 8 0 Railfan amp Railroad White River Productions Archived from the original on May 24 2023 Retrieved May 24 2023 a b Walls Kord May 24 2023 722 Rebuild OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE Great Smoky Mountains Railroad American Heritage Railways Archived from the original on May 27 2023 Retrieved May 27 2023 Hodge Rex September 18 2023 Full steam ahead Second steam engine with Great Smoky Mountains Railroad to be restored WLOS Archived from the original on September 20 2023 Retrieved December 20 2023 Bibliography editDrury George H 2015 Guide to North American Steam Locomotives 2nd ed Kalmbach Media ISBN 978 1 62700 259 2 Ferrell Mallory H 1991 Tweetsie Country 2nd ed The Overmountain Press ISBN 0 93280758 5 Plott Jacob Plott Bob 2021 Smoky Mountain Railways 1st ed The History Press ISBN 978 1 4671 4459 9 Vazquez Gisela 2008 The Wilmington and Western Railroad Images of Rail 1st ed Arcadia Publishing ISBN 978 0 7385 5362 7 Waite John R 2003 Blue Ridge Stemwinder An Illustrated History of the East Tennessee amp Western North Carolina Railroad and the Linville River Railway 1st ed Overmountain Press ISBN 1 57072 272 2 Wrinn Jim 2000 Steam s Camelot Southern and Norfolk Southern Excursions in Color 1st ed TLC Publishing ISBN 1 883089 56 5 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Southern Railway 722 722 Rebuild Blog Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Southern Railway 722 amp oldid 1220252313, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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