2-6-0 Mogul "Old Hickory" U.S.A. Number 1

[ColCampbell]

I discovered a black & white image in the railroad pictures I inherited from my late father. He was a railroad fan and modeler. This image depicts a 2-6-0 Mogul locomotive with a straight stack that is flared out at the top and two round-topped cylindrical domes on the boiler. The tender has a sloped rear sides. The tender is lettered "U. S. A." and the side of the cab has the name "Old Hickory" above a circled number "1".

I know Moguls were built and used in the 1860s, but all of the pictures I can find on-line of Civil War locomotives are 4-4-0s with inverted cone shaped stacks, labelled as either U.S. Military Railroad or USMRR.

Could this be a Civil War era locomotive? I'm not sure as the tender looks "modern" with the sloped rear sides and the non-standard U.S.A. marking.

The image is glued to a pasteboard backing with no other identification data.

Thanks,

Jim

 

[ColCampbell]

On more consideration, could this have been a US based military locomotive during WW1? I know that the locomotives sent to France were almost all 2-8-0 Consolidations. But could this have been part of the military railroad operations inside the continental US?

 

[bcp]

I like locomotive puzzles.

Copy print of locomotive

Old Hickory, Tennessee, (11 miles east of Nashville) was home to the world's largest smokeless powder plant during WWI. Owned by the US Army, but operated under contract by DuPont, the gunpowder facility employeed thousands and occupied all of Hadley's Bend of the Cumberland River. The army...

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Bruce

 

[ColCampbell]

Bruce,

That is it!! Thanks so much.

Jim