More Database Updates

• Added Construction Number for CFR 2-10-0 No. 150.088 and changed its status to Scrapped
• Added Build Date and Construction number for CFR 2-10-0 No. 150.161 and changed its status to Scrapped
• Corrected build date and construction number for CFR 2-10-0 No. 150.278 and changed its status to Scrapped.
• Added builder, build date and construction number for CFR(KPEV) 4-6-0 No. 230.187 and changed its status to Scrapped

 

Updates to the Database

• Changed the status of New South Wales Government Railways 4-8-4+4-8-4 No. 6029 to “Restoration” and corrected its build date to 1952 from 1954, based on data from several sources.
• Added builder, build date and construction number for CFR(KPEV) 4-6-0 No. 230.040. Corrected road number, and changed the locomotive’s status to “Scrapped”
• Added builder, build date and construction number for CFR(KPEV) 4-6-0 No. 230.231. Corrected road number and changed the locomotive’s status to “Scrapped”

 

Changes to Steamlocomotive.info

We’ve made a few changes to the website that are worth noting (and many more are coming).

• Where a country’s locomotives are divided by state, province or region, the page that displays a single locomotive will no display location as City, State, Country rather than just City, State. This was based on visitor feedback to the effect that people often didn’t know what country a particular state was located.
• Even if a locomotive was flagged as “Scrapped” in the Status field, it was still counted as a locomotive for the purpose of the database and statistics, even though it no longer existed. So we’ve modified the routine that counts locomotives (globally, nationally, or by region) to count the number of scrapped locomotives in that region and subtract that number from the number of locomotives in that region. Scrapped locomotives are still in the database (and often have photos!). They simply aren’t counted as an existing locomotive anymore.
• Fixed a bug in the page that displays Chinese provinces that would, under some circumstances, distort the page formatting.
• On the front page of the website there’s a table that displays, among other things, the number of locomotives with photos, the number without, the number of photo albums and so forth. We added a couple of lines to this part of the display to include Total Locomotives (this is all the locomotives in the database minus the number of scrapped locomotives.), and Scrapped Locomotives. You may notice that if you add the number of locomotives with photos and the number of locomotives without photos, the number will be larger than the Total Locomotives number. That’s because we have photographs of some of the scrapped locomotives.

I hope you will enjoy the changes. Many more are coming.

Regards,
Doug

 

 

Hanomag 0-4-0T in Brazil

Horst Wolff, a frequent contributor to steamlocomotive.info provided this photo of Batalhao Ferroviario No. 3 a Hanomag 0-4-0T located in Rio Negro, Parana, Brazil. It is obviously being well cared for on display, but it did call my attention to a problem with the website. If you follow this link you’ll see that the location listed as Rio Negro, Parana. If you weren’t aware that Parana is a state in Brazil, you’d likely not know what country the locomotive was in. This came about because the database was originally designed for the U.S. only and under that assumption, displaying just the city and state seemed reasonable. So…the code is being modified and shortly it’ll display City, State and Country for those countries where we divide the data by state or province.

Copyright © Horst Wolff

 

Dominion Construction Co. 0-4-0T No. 2029

We’ve recently received a photo of this locomotive from John Park, and the locomotive is said to be on display at the Mathews estate in Langston, Ontario. This is what the January, 1925 Davenport product looks like:

Copyright © John Park

We have conflicting information as to the locale and status of this little critter, but the Langston location seems most likely based upon what we have. A very pretty cosmetic restoration. If steamlocomotive.com lists this locomotive at all, I’ve been unable to locate it.