RailPictures.Net Photo: LN 1250 Louisville & Nashville Steam 2-8-0 at Pensacola, Florida by Collection of Ron Flanary

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� Louisville & Nashville (more..)
� Steam 2-8-0 (more..)

� Pensacola Roundhouse (more..)
� Pensacola, Florida, USA (more..)
� 1947

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� LN 1250 (more..)
� Unknown

� Collection of Ron Flanary (more..)
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Remarks & Notes

This is another unidentified oldie from my collection. The scene is almost certainly L&N�s eight-stall roundhouse (with 75-foot turntable) at Pensacola, FL. Such a calamity pictured here was actually quite common in the steam era. Consolidation 1250 (class H27A) probably had a steam leak in her throttle, so without wheel chocks, she just eased into the turntable pit. What�s worse, the engine is wedged against the turntable, so every locomotive in the house is now trapped�including K2A Pacifics 190 and 175 on the left. The �hats� (officials) are evident, but a few roundhouse laborers are busy constructing cribbing to begin lifting the engine up. The process is slow: build a foundation of wooden cribbing, jack it up, build more cribbing, jack it up, etc. I saw this same thing happen in the early �50s at L&N�s Loyall, KY roundhouse when J4 Mike 1774 (a much larger engine than the 1250 shown here) went nose-down in the pit. In that case, the hostler headed for the turntable in the 1774 only to realize�too late�that the engine�s cross compound air compressor was turned off. Oops�no brakes!

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