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The Great Western Steam Up was held on the grounds of the Nevada State Railroad Museum from July 1 – July 4, 2022, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. Nine operating steam locomotives were featured with many more on display. The event was billed as the largest reunion of existing V&T locomotives in over 75 years.
Daily events included rides behind visiting narrow and standard-gauge steam locomotives, a daily pageant of steam locomotives, historical vehicle and equipment displays, local food trucks, live entertainment, and “lost art” demonstrations.
This image is from the third day of the event, July 3.
The featured locomotives were:
Glenbrook, narrow gauge 2-6-0 (Baldwin 1875) built for the Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Company and used at Glenbrook, Nevada, along with an identical twin, Tahoe (see NCNG 5, below). It last ran in the 1920s and was acquired by the Nevada County Narrow Gauge for parts. In the 1940s it was placed on exhibit at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City and beginning in 1981 was restored to service (completed in 2015). It has been returned to its 1875 appearance.
No. 1, Joe. Douglass, narrow gauge 0-4-2T (H. K. Porter 1882) built for the Dayton, Sutro & Carson Valley Railroad. It operated at a mine in Dayton, Nevada, and later helped build Lake Arrowhead dam in California. It was cosmetically restored to its present appearance in 1994 and is displayed at the Nevada State Railroad Museum. It is a wood burner, but not operational.
No. 1, narrow gauge 0-4-0T (Porter 1889) built for the Sacramento Brick Company. It was later acquired by Hal Wilmunder and operated on his private Antelope & Western Railroad near Roseville, California. The engine is now owned and cared for by the Wilmunder family, and can usually be seen at the NCNG Museum in Nevada City, Calif.
No. 1, standard gauge 2-truck Heisler (Heisler Locomotive Works 1916), built for Bluestone Mining & Smelting. It originally worked on a 2.5 mile line near Mason, Nevada, before being acquired by a quarry in California. This oil-fired locomotive is owned by Chris Baldo and sees frequent use at Roots of Motive Power in Willits, California.
No. 1, Lyon, standard gauge 2-6-0 (Gentry/Strasburg/Kloke) which is a partially completed replica of the first locomotive built for the Virginia & Truckee. The original was manufactured by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco in 1869. The full-scale working replica was donated to the Nevada State Railroad Museum by Stan Gentry, builder, and is being completed by the museum shop staff. It will burn wood as did the original.
No. 3, standard gauge 0-4-0T (Porter 1909) built for the Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company. Upon retirement it was used as a billboard for a chicken restaurant in Stockton, California. It was restored to service by Stathi Pappas beginning in 2006 and is currently located at the Placerville & Sacramento Valley Railroad in Folsom, California. Nicknamed “Chiggen,” it is oil-fired.
No. 4, Eureka, narrow gauge 4-4-0 (Baldwin 1875), built for the Eureka & Palisade Railroad. Retired in 1938, it was later featured in several Hollywood movies. This classic wood-fired locomotive was restored by Dan Markoff in the 1980s and is usually kept at his home in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
No. 5, Tahoe, narrow gauge 2-6-0 (Baldwin 1875) built for the Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Company and used in logging service. It was later sold to the Nevada County Narrow Gauge of Grass Valley, Calif., and was retired in 1942. It then appeared in numerous movies and TV shows for owner Universal Pictures. No. 5 is now part of the NCNG Museum in Nevada City, Calif., and was restored to service in May 2022. This oil-fired locomotive has been restored to its 1940s appearance.
No. 8, standard gauge 4-4-0 (Cooke Locomotive & Machine Works 1888) built for the Denver, Texas & Fort Worth Railroad, and later operated on the Dardanelle & Russellville in Arkansas. It was used in 1976 on the V&T tourist railroad at Virginia City. Oil fired, it last steamed in the early 2000s.
No. 11, Reno, standard gauge 4-4-0 (Baldwin 1872) built for the Virginia & Truckee. The most renown of all V&T’s Americans, the Reno was retired in 1937 and sold to a movie studio. It spent over fifty years at Old Tucson Studios in Arizona before being acquired by the V&T tourist railroad of Virginia City, Nevada, in 2021. It is currently under restoration. Oil fired.
No. 12, Genoa, standard gauge 4-4-0 (Baldwin 1873) built for the Virginia & Truckee. It was a back-up locomotive to the Reno and was retired in 1908. For the past 40 years it’s been on indoor static display at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. It last ran in 1979 and was never converted from burning wood to burning oil, like most V&T 4-4-0s were.
No. 18, narrow gauge 4-6-0 (Baldwin 1911), built for the Nevada-California-Oregon and last used by the Southern Pacific. Restored by Carson & Colorado Inc. in 2017 after being on display in an Independence, Calif., park since 1954. It is normally kept at the Eastern California Museum in Independence. Oil fired.
No. 18, Dayton, standard gauge 4-4-0 (Central Pacific Sacramento Shops 1873) built for the Virginia & Truckee. Ran on the V&T for nearly seven decades before being acquired by a movie studio. It was cosmetically restored for display in 1982 by the Nevada State Railroad Museum. Oil fired.
No. 21, J. W. Bowker, standard gauge 2-4-0 (Baldwin 1875) built for the Virginia & Truckee. Bowker served as a switch engine in Virginia City. It was later purchased by the Sierra Nevada Wood & Lumber Company. Wood-fueled but not currently operational, it has been exhibited at the California State Railroad since 1976. An oil burner, it is not currently operational.
No. 22, Inyo, standard gauge 4-4-0 (Baldwin 1875), built for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. It served in passenger service and was nicknamed “Brass Betsy.” It was later sold to Paramount Pictures and appeared McLintock, Union Pacific, and The Great Locomotive Chase. Restored to operation in 1983 and currently housed at the Nevada State Railroad Museum. Wood fired.
No. 25, standard gauge 4-6-0 (Baldwin 1905) built for the Virginia & Truckee to handle both freight and passenger trains. It was the first new steam locomotive purchased by the V&T and replaced older 4-4-0s on the passenger run between Reno and Carson City. Oil fired, it was restored to operation in 1980 and sees frequent service at the Nevada State Railroad Museum.
made some new 'mario question' block stickers, man they take a while to make, but they seem to be worth it, i wonder whats holding me back from making a stencil?
anywho, been busy working the 2 jobs while trying to fix in some alone time for art and stickers.
I just sent out 7 packs of stickers, each containing an average of 15 sticks. but now that i am done people been hitting me up for more, my never-ending story, haha. Well now i got about 5 new people and a sticker show that ebliss is putting on, plus i wanna send out some more to close buds...so if you know who you are hit me up now before i forget!
Sorry for the long post, but its like my diary i suppose? I got some new shots (even more whenever the weather gets nice), some new paintings and a super secret coming up that i think is pretty cool shit!
take care, and feel free to leave a super long comment, i would love to read them at work instead of doing work!
cheers
- josh?
In my line of work, to attain healthy results with the kids we work with, the giving of oneself is a pure necessity, but it can also be quite a tough one at times!
As a matter of fact it can sometimes play havoc on your system that if you don’t take care in keeping that balance, you might just topple over one day! Sometimes love hurts... and it hurts really bad, especially when we loose a kid, which is not so uncommon in a country like Brazil that even with such wealth, still ranks fifth in the line of inequality according to the latest World Bank Report on Equity and Development. Brazil is kind of caught up in an “Inequality Trap” because there is so little give and take.
Yes! It costs a lot to give a little to those who don’t have much.
People, who wonder how we keep it up, often tell me that I had better watch myself otherwise I might just end up being the needy one myself. To some extent that could be true, as those who have followed us through the years understand that “giving” can often become a one-way street when it comes to dealing with high-risk people. It’s hard if one expects something in return.
Who’ll recharge your batteries when the going gets tough? Those who know Sandra, once a highly at risk street kid but now the happy mother of these two little guys, understand what a tremendous drain of energy that young lady has been through the years. Her hubby knows too!
So how does one balance this story? Today I experienced something very special that gave me a total recharge (and to tell you the truth I was needing one!).
Sandra popped by my office together with her husband and their first son Patrick to show off their new addition to everyone at Hummingbird. She made a point of declaring the real reason for stopping by to see me, as they had also been to the registry office to register the baby and wanted to tell me so.
The baby was wrapped in a brightly decorated towel she had made during the couple of days she was in hospital recovering the birth. In the corner of that blue and white towel, embroidered in deep blue, was a very well known name, that name was mine! G r e g o r y
Wow! I really didn’t know where to hide my tears because I’ve never had a child named after me. It was almost like that same feeling of great pride and joy I felt on the birth of my own son Marcus, many years ago!
You see, inequality, no matter what background you come from, can be evened out if we just learn to give a little more of ourselves to each other. Patrick is learning something very valuable, which his own mother had lost as a child but is gradually regaining as an adult; he’s learning the joys of love through his little brother and the family they are part of.
I think we all have a lesson to learn.
Today, on Valentine's Day, at long last, Yi-wen and I bought our "mutual Christmas gift": a Pentax k100d. It's a nice entry-level dslr. Of course, now she claims that this is not "our gift" but my Christmas, Valentine's Day, and birthday gift.
Whatever.
Bought it this afternoon, took it in to work with me, and took this photo of a randomly chosen page from the dictionary on my desk.
Love the definition.
Posted large to get a feel for what the new toy is capable of.
It is called work out - not play out - because it isn't fun. I will get my body back. Failure is not an option.
Working in an office has many constraints, especially as it is usually because it is organized around a hierarchy. when you spend a lot of time in a hierarchy it can be difficult to imagine a different kind of existence.
It is easy to see people as one thing, and one thing only, and that is their pigeonhole in the hierarchy. The accountant is only the accountant. Just as importantly many people come to see themselves as their pigeonhole description.
People, though, are so much more. Our existences at work and elsewhere are transitional, capable of change. If only we can tell what parts of us are core, and what parts just added on to do a job.
I found this in the back alley behind my work. Funny thing, I don't know if that thing really works because my penis wouldn't fit in the box. Hmmm...
StreetScooter Work L shown by Deutsche Post Group during the COP23 UN Climate Conference in Bonn, Germany.
The Work L is the longer version of the StreetScooter produced for Deutsche Post and also sold to other customers. The logistics company had owned Streetscooter since 2014. As Deutsche Post had failed to find investors for it's unprofitable subsidiary, StreetScooter production will stop in 2020.
StreetScooter Work L (2016-2020)
38 kW syncronous motor
GVW: 2600 kg
Vmax: 85 km/h
A picture taken last saturday at Trapani, Sicily, during a photowalk with others flickr contacts, and obtained from a single raw shot and after processed with Capture NX2.
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