Ffestiniog Railway Alco 1265 Mountaineer

Part of the price of this DLC will be donated to keep the real Mountaineer in steam! Built in 1916, this locomotive only had a life expectancy of a few weeks, supplying the front-line trenches during World War One. However, 106 years later, American Locomotive Company No.57156 is still very much with us and has more than repaid the cost of construction, following its service in both France and North Wales. War Department Light Railways No.1265 worked in various locations around France after the war, before moving to the Tramway de Pithiviers à Toury, where it hauled sugar beet and carried the number 3.23. Upon that line's closure in 1964 it was purchased by Ffestiniog Railway Society member John Ransom, who donated the locomotive to the FR in 1967. The arrival of No.1265 couldn't have come at a better time for the Ffestiniog Railway; with passenger numbers rising sharply, the railway desperately needed as many locos and carriages as it could find - and so the ALCO (as it is known to