Dobwalls Adventure Park - Locomotives

Locomotives

Dobwalls was home to nine replicas of American giant locomotives, each now worth in excess of £50,000.

The locomotives were as follows:

Steam Locomotives

Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 No. X4008 "William Jeffers"

Union Pacific 4-8-2 No. 818 "Queen of Wyoming"

Union Pacific 4-8-2 No. 838 "Queen of Nebraska"

Rio Grande 2-8-2 No. 488 "General Palmer" (Sold separately, 2008, and due to depart the UK to Australia to Puffing Billy train steam theme park in Melbourne.)

Rio Grande 2-8-2 No. 498 "Otto Mears"

Freelance 2-6-2 No. 88 "David Curwen" (Sold in 2005 - this locomotives is now at the Eastleigh Lakeside Railway)

Diesel Locomotives

Union Pacific DDA40X Do-Do No. 6908 "Centennial"

Rio Grande GP35 Bo-Bo No. 3008 "Mathias Baldwin"

Santa Fe FP45 Co-Co No. 5908 "Pioneer"

Amtrak E8 No. 248 "Spirit of America"

When the park closed in 2006, all the locomotives were made available for sale.

In early 2008, eight of the locomotives were sold to a gentleman in Dorset to run at Plowman's Railroad near Ferndown in Dorset. The Dorset railway is no longer running.

The locomotives have been since been exported to Australia as part of a private project to build a seven and a quarter inch railroad next to the 'Puffing Billy Railway' in Australia.