Second Pearl Brewery Locomotive on Display

I happened upon the above photo on Facebook the other day, and it has led to a PNAERC update. The steeplecab shown is Texas Transportation 1, one of two surviving locomotives that for decades switched the historic Pearl Brewery in San Antonio. When the wires came down in 2000, TT 1 spent over two decades in storage, first in an ex-SP yard in San Antonio and then on private property in Elmendorf, Texas. Last year, though, it was repainted and moved back to San Antonio, and sometime in late 2023 or early 2024 it was placed on a short section of track under a nice open-sided roof overhang. It's located next to an entrance to the "Pullman Market," formerly known as Samuels Glass, in an alley behind Karnes Street - and you can even see it here on Google Street View. Isn't technology grand? I've changed TT 1's status from "stored inoperable" to "displayed inoperable."

The locomotive itself was built by Baldwin-Westinghouse in 1917 and was initially sold to the Milwaukee Road, supposedly as a regenerative braking test unit, before being returned to B-W in 1919. It then went to Monongahela West Penn as their 2000 (sister locomotive MWP 3000 is also preserved), which sold it in 1948 to the Kansas City Kaw Valley & Western, where it was 504 (two other ex-KCKV&W steeplecabs still run today on Iowa Traction). Texas Transportation bought it in 1953. The Pearl Brewery locomotive fleet of two has fared pretty well. Although neither locomotive is on live rail, TT 2 - an ex-Texas Electric cab-on-flat - has been displayed since 2006 in similarly attractive fashion just two blocks to the north, also in home territory.