Kennecott Copper locomotive runs

The image above is a frame grab from a video posted yesterday on Facebook here (no log-in required) by the Western Railway Museum. The video shows the first operation in many years of Kennecott Copper 700, a huge articulated-truck steeplecab built in 1927 by GE. The WRM post says that the locomotive still needs a bit of work but it sounds like their plan is to put it into revenue service. KCC 700's status on the list has thus been updated from "displayed inoperable" to "operated occasionally."

This is a pretty unusual piece of equipment to see operating. It's the only one of the nine preserved Kennecott Copper electric locomotives that's operational; most of the others aren't even close and/or aren't located at museums with live overhead. It's the biggest operational steeplecab in an American museum by far. And it's one of only two articulated-truck steeplecabs currently operational (the other is much older and smaller). Kudos to the WRM crew on getting this unusual piece going.