SLSF 3749 BLW builder plate 58489

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Chuck Zeiler	General	This is from steamlocomotive.com: Frisco 3749 was one of a group of 40 (3713-3752) 0-6-0s built by Baldwin between 1907 and 1913. They had high-mounted boilers, piston valves, Stephenson valve gear, and weighed 154,500 lbs. Number 3749 last operated at a scrapyard in Pensacola. Sometime after 1977 it was acquired by the people who owned Church Street Station. It was displayed there for around 30 years. A number of cosmetic modifications had been made to 3749 (presumably to make 3749 more visually appealing). The two builder plates did not match and neither were from this locomotive. The one on the left side said: "Baldwin, 1913, CN: 39696" (which is from BEDT #10). The one on the right side says: "Baldwin, 1925, CN: 58489" (which is from the Rockton-Rion 2-8-0, No. 203 in Knoxville, TN). The number plate attached to the front of the smokebox had a "1" on it. The "cow-catcher" was bogus. 3749 was also lettered "Seaboard Airline 223" (the real Seaboard #223 was an M-1 class 4-8-2 which	4/9/2013 10:03:27 PM

Chuck Zeiler	General	pulled the Orange Blossom Special and other crack passenger trains). In 2012 3749 was acquired by the Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum in Parrish.	4/9/2013 10:05:41 PM

SLSF 3749 BLW builder plate 58489
Date: 9/2/2011	Location: Orlando, FL	Views: 647	Collection Of: John McCluskey
Locomotives: SLSF 3749(0-6-0)			Author: John McCluskey

Picture Categories: Roster		This picture is part of album: Orlando Trains

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