another oddity

[eightyeightfan1]

If this is the same loco I read about a few years ago, like that was posted, it was a failure as far as a working loco, but great a keeping shops warm and toasty. Befroe she was scrapped, she was plumbed into one of the shops, and the boiler was used to run a shop, and for heating. Later, it was finally sold as scrap.
Too bad. Like here in the states, how many historical steam locos in the Soviet Union, or for that matter, in the world were sold for scrap, and not preserved.
A fact of short sightness.