Owosso is located approximately 225 miles south of the bridge near Lansing, Mich. The engine’s boiler required adjustments to keep the load under the 45-ton limit allowed on the Mackinac Bridge, which carries Interstate 75 from the Upper to the Lower Peninsula. Other trucks carried the running gear and frame, the tender tank and frame, and various parts that included side rods and the pilot. The move was complex, requiring crews to break down the 4-6-0 into four component groups of parts and hauled on four separate trucks.
The Ten-Wheeler was purchased earlier this year from the Mineral Range Railroad, which stored the engine at Ripley in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
The boiler of the R-1 class engine was delivered to Owosso today, and the running gear is expected to arrive early Wednesday. 175 to the museum’s headquarters in Owosso, where it will join the organization’s famed Berkshire, Pere Marquette 2-8-4 No. The Steam Railroading Institute has nearly completed the successful move of former Chicago & North Western 4-6-0 No.
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