page_title: TDLR 5
section_title: Preservation
hierarchical_section_title: TDLR 5 / Preservation
caption_attribution_description: Tralee &amp; Dingle Railway (but note "R.R." painted on side tank!) 2-6-2T No.5, Hunslet works No.626, at Steamtown, Bellows Falls, Vermont 8/70.
context_page_description: Tralee and Dingle Light Railway 5 is a 2-6-2T locomotive manufactured by the Hunslet Engine Company in 1892 for the Tralee and Dingle Light Railway.
  It is difficult to understand why the Tralee and Dingle acquired this particular locomotive. Perhaps they were looking for a locomotive more suited to passenger work, the pony truck should give a better ride for the crews over lightly laid track, perhaps the extra truck was needed to keep the axle-weight down as No. 5 was some 9 tons heavier than the other, earlier Hunslets or, as it was fitted for oil-burning from new it could be that Hunslets, in looking for a narrow gauge railway on which to demonstrate their product, gave a good deal on the price, and railways were always looking for a good deal to help their finances. Regardless of which No. 5 arrived in 1892 and on the 1925 amalgamation became the sole representative of GSR Class 5T or Class PN2.
context_section_description: Locomotive No.5 was withdrawn from service in 1959 and bought by American millionaire F. Nelson Blount and was sent to the Steamtown Museum in Bellows Falls, Vermont, where it was cosmetically restored to TDLR condition and placed on static display. In 1988, like the prodigal son (or as locomotives are considered female, daughter), No. 5 returned to Tralee where, after 5 years, it was restored to working order for duties on the 1½ miles reopened section of the TDLR between Tralee and Blennerville. 
  The locomotive is out of service after failing a boiler certificate and the whole project has ground to a halt as a result. A decision on her future depends on funding. She now lies dismantled in her home shed.
caption: No. 5 at Steamtown in August 1970.
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