Rockport Lime Company

[Mike Fox]

The last remaining locomotive from the Rockport Lime Company is going to be cosmetically (my words) restored.

https://knox.villagesoup.com/2021/09/08/historic-locomotive-undergoes-restoration/

[John Kokas]

The article doesn't say, but what gauge was this Vulcan?

[Bill Baskerville]

Also, was it an 0-4-0 or an 0-4-2.  I can't tell from the photo on the trestle.

[Ed Lecuyer]

I *think* the locomotive being cosmetically restored is not a historic Rockport RR locomotive, but rather one that was purchased many years ago from a coal mine in PA to represent the RR.

See:
https://forum.wwfry.org/index.php/topic,821.msg16331.html#msg16331

[Jeff Schumaker]

The railroad was 3 ft gauge. The locomotive was an 0-4-2. According to the book All Aboard for Yesterday, the railroad had two locomotives. Both were cut up for scrap in the mid 1930s.

Jeff S.

[Keith Taylor]

The locomotive on display at Rockport was purchased from the Kovalchick salvage folks. It has no Rockport history at all.

Keith

[Philip Marshall]

The original owner of the engine in Rockport was an obscure construction company in New York City with the colorful name of Queens Subway Apartment & Loft Building Corp., which in a weirdly backward way is now remembered less for its actual business than for its  surviving locomotives. (There is another one reported to be in Alabama.) However, it does merit a page on Philip Goldstein's website on the industrial and terminal railroads of NYC: http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/indloco/qsalb.html

[Bob Holmes]

Well, when they restore it, I hope they at least give it its proper name:  Lime Rock Railroad