One mystery solved

Many thanks to Wesley Paulson, who has successfully solved one of the more perplexing mysteries of recent years: whatever happened to Texas Transportation 1? With help from Wesley and Hugh Hemphill, plus an assist from Google Maps, it's been discovered that this Baldwin-Westinghouse - whose last confirmed siting that I knew of was back in 2006 - is indeed still in storage. It's now in Elmendorf, Texas, stored in a building behind the site of the future San Antonio Railroad Heritage Museum. The image above, from Google Street View, shows the locomotive in the distance, safe and under cover. (There's another photo here.) Evidently the locomotive is still owned by the Pearl Brewery (of which Texas Transportation was a subsidiary) and is just being stored, with no particular plans for it.