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Plettenberg in action by ~Kotbaum

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Submitted: May 17
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Date Picture Taken: May 17, 2008, 4:51:40 PM

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I went to the car museum in Asendorf today(pictures from there can be seen on my other account: [link] ). As we left the museum I heard the whistle of a steam engine and I rushed to the historic train station of Asendorf(which is the end of the historic line) which is just 200 meter away from the museum. I was lucky, I found the Plettenberg narrow gauge steam locomotive complete with original cars, which had just arrived at the station. Besides the weather it was a good day.

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~labrat-78

May 17, 2008, 5:40:23 PM

When you brought up Plettenberg, I had to look it up from my history of Kansas City Southern.

Plettenberg was one of the places that Wilhelm Edenborn worked at in the steel and wire business in the late 1860's. Edenborn was the eventual builder of KCS ancestor Louisiana & Arkansas Railroad that connected the cities of Shreveport and New Orleans, being completed in 1907.

Edenborn came to this country around 1868 and started in the wire mill business's in St. Louis working his way up to the top. His company was one of the original pieces of what would become U.S. Steel in 1900.

After which, he and his wife, Sarah, went to Louisiana and developed the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company in 1897. It took ten years to finish the railroad but it was all paid out of his own pocket. When he died in 1926 his widow eventually sold the railroad to electric utility magnate Harvey Couch and he merged it into the L&A and in 1939 into KCS.

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~doppelgamer

May 17, 2008, 11:30:45 PM

Awesome engine!

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~HerrDrayer

May 18, 2008, 6:24:32 AM

That's some very interesting history you dug up there Traci! I was just going to mention how rare it is to find box-cab steam locomotives, but that hardly seems important now...