Looks like Russ' picture of #786 is in Burnet? Kudos to everyone else! That LV 4-8-4 definitely has a British air about her. :shade:
Yup, that was back in the days when they could not wye the train so they just brought the engine around from one end of the train to the other and ran "cab forward" pushing the tender on the return trip from Burnet to Cedar Park. In that photo they were getting ready to move the engine to the back of the train.
Well, the definitely use the wye now, Russ. 786 is supposed to be back in operation before the end of the year.
Here you can see the engineer leaning out the window to see where he was going. They also had a spotter on the tender, who as I was told, could set the break in an emergency.
A Maine Central steamer (2-8-0? 2-8-0?) I shot in North conway, NH in Dec. 2005 at the Conway Scenic.
Some of MY Colorado RR Museum steam shots: Was this steamer built with a boiler off a standard-gauge loco? Sure looks that way to me. Manitou & Pikes Peak Cog Ry. One-spot. First time I ever saw a steamer for a cog line.......interesting beast CB&Q O-5 5624, ironically not that far from home rails- the Coors brewery is literally across the street. Little 0-4-0 saddletanker
From 2005: UP3985 on her break-in run coasting down the west side of Sherman Hill at Hermosa siding Shooting the Alemite to her in Laramie.
Here the Nickel Plate Road #763 is being pulled out of the Museum of Transportation in Roanoke bound for the NS shops there. It is being made ready for a trip to Ohio where it will be restored to running condition. So far the bearings seem to be OK, even after the locomotive was submerged during a flood back in the early 1980's..
