Jerry Jacobson owns another steam locomotive. His Age of Steam Roundhouse purchased Yreka Western 2-8-2 No. 19 during a sheriff’s sale on Thursday in California.
AOS won out over the Valley Railroad of Essex, Connecticut, the only other bidder for the locomotive.
Trains magazine reported that the winning bid of AOS was $400,000.
The sale of the locomotive happened after the Chelatchie Boiler Works of Woodland, Washington, placed a lien on it for $264,000.
Chelatchie acted after not being paid for boiler work that it performed in 2006. By a 2013 court order, No. 19 was confined to its engine house.
A sheriff’s sale had been set for October 2013, but was called off when the previous operators of the Yreka Western alleged that they had a superior line on the locomotive.
Under terms of the sale, AOS will have two weeks to move the locomotive from its current location.
AOS officials told Trains they plan to load loose parts onto a truck and contract with a trucking company to move the locomotive on a low-boy trailer.
The tender will be taken by truck to Sugar Creek while the engine will move to Sacramento, California, where it will be placed on a railroad flat car for transport to Ohio.
The AOS owns another former McCloud River Railroad steam locomotives, No. 9, which it purchased last year from Steve Butler.
No. 19 last operated in November 2008. It appeared in the 1973 move Emperor of the North with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine.
It also once ran on the Oregon, Pacific & Eastern Railroad.
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