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Owner: Virginia Central Railway
Model:Alco 2-6-0Built As:OCL 50 (2-6-0)
Serial Number:62634Order No:C-659
Frame Number:18X24 cylinders, 50" driversBuilt:12/1922
Notes:Cooke 12/1922 for export, sold to Osceola Cypress #50, to VA-C Chemical Co.
Other locos with this serial:  VC 50(2-6-0)
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Virginia - Carolina 50
Title:  Virginia - Carolina 50
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/3/2006  Upload Date: 2/24/2012 6:41:40 AM
Location:  Lakeland, FL
Author:  Ken Ramp JR
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  503   Comments: 0
Virginia - Carolina 50
Title:  Virginia - Carolina 50
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/3/2006  Upload Date: 2/24/2012 6:43:24 AM
Location:  Lakeland, FL
Author:  Ken Ramp JR
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
Virginia - Carolina 50
Title:  Virginia - Carolina 50
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/3/2006  Upload Date: 2/24/2012 6:47:38 AM
Location:  Lakeland, FL
Author:  Ken Ramp JR
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  315   Comments: 0
VC 50
Title:  VC 50
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/14/2012  Upload Date: 5/2/2012 2:44:22 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  Kevin Hunt
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  381   Comments: 0
VC 50
Title:  VC 50
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/14/2012  Upload Date: 5/2/2012 2:44:22 PM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Kevin Hunt
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  233   Comments: 0
VC 50
Title:  VC 50
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/14/2012  Upload Date: 5/2/2012 2:44:22 PM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Kevin Hunt
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  298   Comments: 0
VC 50
Title:  VC 50
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/14/2012  Upload Date: 5/2/2012 2:44:23 PM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Kevin Hunt
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  304   Comments: 0
VC 50
Title:  VC 50
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/14/2012  Upload Date: 5/2/2012 2:44:21 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  Kevin Hunt
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  303   Comments: 2
Basking in the glory...
Title:  Basking in the glory...
Description:  Virginia-Carolina 50 awaits the groundbreaking of its new home that evening, the Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museum.
Photo Date:  9/5/2012  Upload Date: 2/16/2015 10:34:08 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Steam,Track
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  383   Comments: 0
Old meets older...
Title:  Old meets older...
Description:  Two veteran Southern high-hoods back local P95 down the South Newton Lead, part of the old Carolina & North-Western past the Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museums future Alexander Railroad Pavilion. Virginia-Carolina #50 was moved just over a year prior.
Photo Date:  9/7/2012  Upload Date: 1/8/2019 12:25:35 AM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Station,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NS 7090(GP50) NS 5107(GP38-2) VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  279   Comments: 1
Open doors...
Title:  Open doors...
Description:  V-C 50s smokebox door is opened for an inspection and smokestack removal.
Photo Date:  9/20/2012  Upload Date: 2/25/2015 2:52:42 AM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Yard,Station,Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  300   Comments: 0
Firebox...
Title:  Firebox...
Description:  An extremely rare look from the inside of Virginia-Carolina #50s firebox.
Photo Date:  9/20/2012  Upload Date: 2/25/2015 9:18:33 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  InCab,Yard,Station,Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  272   Comments: 0
Looking out...
Title:  Looking out...
Description:  Looking out from the front and bottom of the Virginia-Carolina 50's firebox. A rare view indeed!
Photo Date:  9/20/2012  Upload Date: 2/25/2015 9:26:09 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  InCab,Yard,Station,Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  296   Comments: 0
Holy ground...
Title:  Holy ground...
Description:  The Virginia-Carolina 50 waits patiently for her new house to be built.
Photo Date:  10/3/2012  Upload Date: 2/25/2015 9:30:31 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Track
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  284   Comments: 0
The number plate...
Title:  The number plate...
Description:  The number plate on the Virginia-Carolina 50. The number plate has now been restored, with machined brass and red paint.
Photo Date:  10/25/2012  Upload Date: 2/25/2015 9:37:31 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Steam,Track
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  239   Comments: 0
Passing tracks...
Title:  Passing tracks...
Description:  NS 5561 passes the then-under construction pavilion of the Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museum, with the Virginia-Carolina 50 waiting patiently for its future home to be completed.
Photo Date:  11/3/2012  Upload Date: 2/25/2015 9:52:10 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Station,Steam,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5561(GP38-2) VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  299   Comments: 0
The first fall...
Title:  The first fall...
Description:  Virginia-Carolina 50s first autumn out of Florida.
Photo Date:  11/16/2012  Upload Date: 2/17/2015 12:48:57 AM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  356   Comments: 0
VC 50
Title:  VC 50
Description:  What is the plan?
Photo Date:  10/13/2013  Upload Date: 11/22/2013 5:31:26 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  G Gerard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  443   Comments: 1
VC 50
Title:  VC 50
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/13/2013  Upload Date: 11/22/2013 5:31:32 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  G Gerard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  346   Comments: 0
Moving in!
Title:  Moving in!
Description:  Skeets Towing Service has moved the Virginia-Carolina 50s tender under the pavilion, and now prepares to move the locomotive. The locomotive was towed in with the driver wheels remaining motionless; the locomotive dragged on the rails with the help of LOTS of liquid soap.
Photo Date:  11/13/2013  Upload Date: 2/25/2015 10:12:07 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Yard,Station,Steam,Track,Action
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  273   Comments: 0
Looking out...
Title:  Looking out...
Description:  Looking out at the 401 from inside the pavilion at the Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museum.
Photo Date:  11/4/2014  Upload Date: 2/17/2015 9:11:28 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Station,Steam,Track
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  260   Comments: 0
Up on the Roof...
Title:  Up on the Roof...
Description:  On the roofwalk of the C&N-W boxcar 401.
Photo Date:  11/6/2014  Upload Date: 2/17/2015 9:25:26 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Station,Track
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  255   Comments: 0
Stacked
Title:  Stacked
Description:  On the newly refurbished stack of the Virginia-Carolina #50.
Photo Date:  11/14/2014  Upload Date: 2/16/2015 9:02:57 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Yard,Station,Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  305   Comments: 2
Spring cleaning...
Title:  Spring cleaning...
Description:  Virginia-Carolina #50 gets a steam cleaning from Alexander Chapter NRHS member Greg Carpenter. The locomotive sat in a park in Lakeland, Florida from 1958-2011, and is in the middle of a cosmetic restoration-the first since its move to the park.
Photo Date:  5/14/2015  Upload Date: 5/17/2015 7:20:28 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Station,Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  277   Comments: 0
Serious putty...
Title:  Serious putty...
Description:  Covering up all the holes in the tender of the V-C #50 under the Pavilion at the Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museum. There were...quite a few.
Photo Date:  6/13/2015  Upload Date: 7/5/2015 11:20:38 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  RollingStock,Night,Yard,Station,Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  326   Comments: 0
Heres lookin at you, kid...
Title:  Heres lookin at you, kid...
Description:  Looking down on former ET&WNC Motorcar #2 under the pavilion at the Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museum, as the car undergoes repairs by the Alexander Chapter NRHS.
Photo Date:  7/2/2015  Upload Date: 7/6/2015 12:41:27 AM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Station,Steam,Passenger,Track
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0) ETWNC 2(MOW Trolley)
Views:  318   Comments: 0
Log Car Delivered
Title:  Log Car Delivered
Description:  The Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museums replica Hutton & Bourbonnais log car has just been placed on its trucks and rolled to the end of paviion track two for display.
Photo Date:  11/20/2015  Upload Date: 9/22/2016 2:48:34 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Station
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  259   Comments: 0
A Floridian in the NC snow...
Title:  A Floridian in the NC snow...
Description:  Virginia-Carolina #50 is safe and covered from the snow by the Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortlines Alexander Railroad Pavilion.
Photo Date:  1/23/2016  Upload Date: 1/5/2019 4:37:58 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Winter,Yard,Station,Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  150   Comments: 1
(Snowy) Alexander Railroad Pavilion
Title:  (Snowy) Alexander Railroad Pavilion
Description:  The Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museums Alexander RR Pavilion in the snow! #SENGSM
Photo Date:  1/23/2016  Upload Date: 1/5/2019 4:43:44 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Yard,Station,Steam,Track
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  165   Comments: 0
NS #376 rolling in...
Title:  NS #376 rolling in...
Description:  Norfolk Southern (shortline) caboose #376 is trucked to the Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museum campus in Newton, NC from its previous home in Lincolnton. The caboose will be moved from the field its placed in to a spot right next to the Newton Depot, where it will be the star of the Museums plaza.
Photo Date:  4/7/2016  Upload Date: 1/7/2019 9:44:46 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Station,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  306   Comments: 0
History in motion...
Title:  History in motion...
Description:  ET&WNC narrow gauge boxcar #434 gets rolled into place at the Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museums Alexander RR Pavilion. It has been placed on standard-gauge shop trucks (built by the Museums Alexander Chapter-NRHS volunteers) until proper narrow gauge trucks can be placed under it.
Photo Date:  7/27/2016  Upload Date: 1/8/2019 12:03:11 AM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,RollingStock,Yard,Station,Steam,Track,Action
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  228   Comments: 0
A cold and dry boiler...
Title:  A cold and dry boiler...
Description:  Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museums V-C #50 steam locomotive stays dry under the Museums Alexander Railroad Pavilion. With the locomotive spending its entire working life in Florida, this was quite the change of scenery.
Photo Date:  1/8/2017  Upload Date: 1/10/2019 12:19:12 AM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Winter,Yard,Station,Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  182   Comments: 1
Unloading Southern Rwy. X2715
Title:  Unloading Southern Rwy. X2715
Description:  Moving crews and volunteers from the Alexander Chapter NRHS/Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museum set Southern Railway caboose X2715 on a set of trucks. The car was moved that day from Fort Mill, SC where it had resided for several decades. It is on display and under restoration there under the Museums Alexander Railroad Pavilion.
Photo Date:  3/10/2017  Upload Date: 1/10/2019 1:30:49 AM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Night,Yard,Station,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  238   Comments: 1
ET&WNC Reunion!
Title:  ET&WNC Reunion!
Description:  ET&WNC narrow gauge boxcar #434 is reunited with the lines standard gauge Motorcar #2 under the Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museums Alexander Railroad Pavilion. Replacing the broken cog in #2 and putting #434 on narrow gauge trucks are on the Museums list for 2019.
Photo Date:  10/24/2017  Upload Date: 1/10/2019 10:31:03 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  James Glenn
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Station
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0) ETWNC 2(MOW Trolley)
Views:  365   Comments: 0
Virginia Carolina #50
Title:  Virginia Carolina #50
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/18/2020  Upload Date: 3/12/2020 10:25:29 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  George Nydegger
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  355   Comments: 0
VC 50 freshly painted
Title:  VC 50 freshly painted
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/18/2020  Upload Date: 3/12/2020 10:21:10 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  George Nydegger
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  VC 50(2-6-0)
Views:  384   Comments: 0


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