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Britannia on its Crewe to kingswear and Class 47 Chris Fudge to Paignton from Birmingham international
Milwaukee Road 261 heads home to Minneapolis after spending the night in Duluth on a fall colors excursion.
261 had to meet a northbound BNSF train in Cambridge, which gave the local, non-railfan (e.g. "normal") people ample time to get the word out and setup trackside. Was neat to see so many people and families out enjoying the show between Cambridge and Isanti.
Lucas, my youngest, was disappointed there were no "steamies" to chase or ride today. Fortunately, Friends of 261 has just announced a series of weekend "North Pole Express" rides/events at St. Paul Union Depot in December, so we won't have to wait long.
Union Pacific steam engines on the way to Ogden Ut for the 150th anniversary of the Joining of the rails in 1869. 4014 in the lead with 844 in back of the yellow tender (the one with the flag)
The Millersvillanova "Wedding Train" 4-6-2 #622 has recently gotten a new coat of blue and pulls a passenger excursion during the 2016 Garden Railroad Tour hosted by the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.
Here's a wide, landscape view of a Denver & Rio Grande Western Cumbres Turn as it emerges from the woods at Coxo, Colorado (MP 332.9) and heads for the Highway 17 crossing, just out of view to the right side of the frame. From here, the train has just over 2 miles to go to reach the summit of Cumbres Pass. The power on the train this day is a pair of Chama, NM-based K-36 Mikados, #s 487 and 488. The tiny, yellow structure just below the train on the left side is a legacy D&RGW phone booth, which was used by train crews back in the day to report problems and obtain train orders. Today, it is maintained by the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.
This image was captured during an October, 2012 photo shoot on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, organized by Lerro Photography. The camera position is high on a ridge just southwest of Cumbres Pass, at a place, known locally as "Roger's Rock", informally named for noted local photographer, Roger Hogan.
Gauge 1 Lego model of 1813 locomotive. The loco has been redesigned several times during its long work life from 1813 to 1862. The model shows the last form, which is on display in the London Science Museum, and of which there is a detailed, working replica from 1906 in the Deutsches Museum, Munich.
Caroline and myself spent a couple of hours down at Dungeness at the steam railway station. Hot chocolate and a muffin completed a geeeeeeky time.
20-07-2024 - The SAR Class 25 NC N°3437 (a 4-8-4) coming from Kimberley is approaching Kloofeind at speed with a FarRail freight charter. This at about Km 18 of the Kimberley – Bloemfontein line.
Photo © JM Frybourg – 240718-7935
Some neat old tractors from this show a couple of years ago. Now It's time to go to this year's show.
September 6, 2019
Missouri River Valley Steam Engine Association
Boonville, Missouri
Under a beautiful, blue, New Mexico sky, Eureka & Palisade #4 and Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Co. #1 take their short passenger consist past the iconic "Juke's Tree" at MP 343.5, as they being their much-anticipated charge up the 4% grade out of Chama, headed for Cumbres Pass. With Engineer George Sapp on Eureka's throttle, and C&TS Pilot Carlos Llamas standing behind him, this train looked and sounded great as it passed this and many other popular photo locations.
In the days prior to this excursion, there was much speculation among rail enthusiasts as to what the consist would be and whether these engines would be capable of getting even a 3-car train to the summit. After all, when Eureka was last here, some 24 years earlier, she had only been able to haul a long caboose up the hill. They were going to make it this time. Their progress was steady and wheel slip was minimal. Alas, it was not to be. When the train stopped for water at Cresco Tank, the crew discovered that Eureka's blower would not work. On a wood-burner, the fire pretty well collapses when the train stops, due to the lack of a draft. Blower channels boiler steam through the smoke box, allowing the crew to create a draft while the engine is stationary. Without it, Eureka could not make steam and the train was unable to resume its climb. Eureka's crew uncoupled their locomotive and took it off the train in hopes that perhaps Glenbrook could go it alone, and for perhaps 100 yards, she was able to move the train.....but she just did not have the Moxie to make it on her own. A rescue locomotive was dispatched from Chama to help, but by the time it made it to Cresco, the railroad schedule had caught up with this excursion and it was forced to return to Chama after stalling out 4.5 miles short of the goal.
Mamod Steam engine
This is the last version of the single cylinder MM2, made for just one year before it was replaced by the SP2. The first version of the MM2 was a twin cylinder horizontally opposed type but few of them were made and are now very rare. The model was reintroduced in 1948 with a single cylinder so that it became similar to the slightly smaller MM1 which was updated about the same time. This design was updated several times, culminating in this version with a raised base, engine frame riveted to the boiler, mazac flywheel, sight glass and solid fuel tablet burner.
46233 "Duchess of Sutherland" comes round the curve at Bessie Ghyll with the return "Cumbrian Mountain Express" - 1Z63 14:52 Carlisle to Crewe. 23/7/2016.
Here is what I can make of the hand written caption on the back. "Oakland Pier The 4-6-2 skyline casing from train 255 Coast Daylight backs toward the roundhouse after being cut off the head end. Return to Richard Steinheimer". I assume Steinheimer was the photographer.
Photo from Ken Shattock.
Terrier class A1x No 32640 (No 11 Newport) approaching Ashey Road Bridge on the Isle of Wight Railway. c1995. More at - davebowles.smugmug.com/Railways/Southern-Region/LBSCR-A1-...
Henry Ford accomplished a lot in his lifetime. But one of his key accomplishments is something he seldom gets credit for. He saved and preserved a lot of really neat stuff. His Greenfield Village, opened in 1929, is a village consisting of historically significant structures and buildings from all over the US. For instance, Orville & Wilbur Wright's bicycle shop is here and you can walk inside and see it as it was back in 1903. Some of these structures were from my home region of New England, such as the Farris Windmill, pictured here. It came from Cape Cod. In this scene, we see the beautiful Detroit & Lima Northern #7, having just departed Susquehanna Station, passing by the windmill on a nice, sunny afternoon. If you're ever at Greenfield Village and want this shot, just be aware that some of the facility staff (not the railroad folks) seem to have issues with people taking pictures here. Not sure why. As you can see, I was well clear of the rails. Fortunately, at the time, there wasn't a soul around.
BoilingMan commented on Train Orders:
Those bridges crossing the tracks are Grand Ave approaching the Bay Bridge. The RR ramp on the right curves up and over the yard tracks--the photographer is standing on that bridge. This bridge was the "Red Car's" connection to the Bay Bridge.
Photo from Ken Shattock.
Gauge 1 Lego model of 1813 locomotive. The loco has been redesigned several times during its long work life from 1813 to 1862. The model shows the last form, which is on display in the London Science Museum, and of which there is a detailed, working replica from 1906 in the Deutsches Museum, Munich.
Southern E4 B473 brings a service train up Waterworks Bank on the Bluebell Railway. 11th August 2012. More of the E4 in different liveries at davebowles.smugmug.com/Railways/Southern-Region/LBSCR-E4-...
WW&F Locomotive #9 blows for the rural crossing at Rosewood Stables as she makes a southbound charge through the Maine woods, bound for Wiscasset with the morning mixed train.
All of the crossings on the current WW&F Museum's trackage are unguarded, private, dirt road crossings. None are public highways and the railroad is completely insular, so all of the museum's current operations are outside the jurisdiction of the Federal Railroad Administration.
Some cool old steamers, in action!
September 6, 2019
Missouri River Valley Steam Engine Association
Boonville, Missouri
RD21763. After a covid enforced absence, I was itching to get back to Porthmadog and see the Ffestiniog Railway once again.
So I grabbed an opportunity at the end of May 2021 and was rewarded with the sight of Double Fairlie 0-4-4-0T MERDDIN EMRYS steaming across The Cob towards Porthmadog Harbour Station soon after our arrival.
It was working a return ‘Woodland Wanderer’ service from Tanybwlch.
Saturday, 29th May, 2021. Copyright © Ron Fisher 2021.
Reading & Northern's NRFF rumbles past the tower and an ex-Lehigh Valley SW8 sitting in Penobscot, PA as the train nears its destination of Pittston, PA.
The Q6's were synonymous with North Eastern coal traffic and lasted until the end of steam in the region. Here 63413 is captured at Blaydon. A Southern Railway brake van appears to be in tow.
An undated photo taken by my grandfather Jack Teasdale.
Charging toward the crossing at Paradise Lane, the Strasburg Rail Road's former Canadian National Mogul #89 hauls the Veteran's Day "Troop Train" west in pretty afternoon light among the farm fields of the Fairview section of the line. This special mixed consist was part of the railroad's 2010 "Troops & Trains" event, which for a number of years had been an annual thing, featuring 2-train operation. Sadly the event likely costing more than it was making, because just a year later, the operation was reduced to just one train, and thereafter, it appears to have disappeared entirely from the schedule.
Southern Pacific 4449, also known as the Daylight, is a GS-4 class 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive, built in May 1941 by the Lima Locomotive Works for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
It is the only surviving example of the Southern Pacific Railroad's GS-4 class of 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotives and one of only two streamlined GS class locomotives preserved, the other being GS-6 No. 4460 at the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri.
GS is an abbreviation of General Service or Golden State, the latter of which was a nickname for California, where the locomotive was used to operate in revenue service.