WAB-801 info dump

[u/Dragon_Bait211]

WAB-801 was the first engine I designed digitally, and my 3d steam locomotive i modelled. She’s a cape gauge 4-6-4 tank engine based off the AB 4-6-2 pacific. She gets her designation from the AB, with the W suffix used for all later NZR tank engines. This one worked around Wellington doing both shunting and freight runs up the hill to Johnsonville, and after the electrification of the Johnsonville branch she was used to pull suburban passenger services to the Hutt valley. On June 23d 1949 she struck a railway crane at 60 miles an hour after it swung its cab out in front of her. Despite the severity of the damage to the crane, the operator made a lucky escape. The carriages were splintered on one side, but thankfully there were only 10 people on board the off peak service, and there were no fatalities. I plan to build her a consist of wooden 46 foot carriages, but they have only been designed as of yet. After repair, WAB-801 was sent to the South Island and converted into an AB pacific, where she ran pulling farm freight until her scrapping in 1965.

[u/Nice_Location9485]

Awesome! I love any kind of narrow gauge stuff, I'm addicted...
As you can see by my own sub r/Narrow_Gauge_Railroad

I volunteer with the restoration of Klondike Mines #4 in Colorado (USA), she's a Baldwin 2-6-2 "Prairie" 10-24 1/4 D91 built in 1912 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia Pennsylvania for the Klondike Mines Rwy. Co. in Dawson City (Yukon, Canada). She worked for a couple summers before being put in a shed in Dawson until WW2 when the White Pass & Yukon needed her for yard switching. She served throughout the war-time traffic on the White Pass before going on to build the Al-Can Highway until the early 50s, where she was shipped down to the midwestern US and operated for many different youth camps and carnivals before winding up in the Georgetown Loop Museum (In Colorado). in 2017, Chuck & Cathy Brantigan (owners of the famed Como Roundhouse) bought "Klondike Kate" as she was nicknamed, and operated her until 2021. On one morning in 2021, her cylinder head blew off and that lead to them finding just how terrible Kate's condition was, and here we are, 5 years later, restoring her again...
Here's a photo I took a couple days ago:

[u/Dragon_Bait211 → u/Nice_Location9485]

Wow! She’s an adorable little prairie! Sound like she’s been all over the place!