Have been super busy making sure stuff was done work wise the last several months, so we could chase this....
We are still out on vacation, and have been catching stuffed and mounted steam. This one's in North Platte, NE at a very nice museum/park. This mogul turned ten-wheeler is at Pioneer Village in Minden, NE, At Kearney, NE and a nice little depot also, but we had to get on the road so couldn't wait for it to open.
N&W 611 at Chattanooga on April 1, 1989, the first day of NS's steam trips that year. Her run today is from Birmingham and return.
From October 1983, George Hart's CP Class D-10 4-6-0 #972 heads a fantrip at Lehighton, PA. She was built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1912. The train is coming off the former CNJ mainline (which ran on the bridge above) and entering the former Lehigh Valley mainline. The bridge has since been removed. The 972 resides today Steamtown in Scranton, but is outdoors in pieces awaiting a rebuild. Mt. Hart passed away in 2008 at 89 years old.
GS4 4454, on SP Train 43 "The Californian", takes water at an unknown location/date, although it has be after 1946 as "Lines" was dropped from lettering on locomotives/passenger equipment at some point in 1946.
"War Baby" GS6 4460 seen here in what appears to be a dead line. She would later be donated to the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis.
One has to have a stone cold heart to steal that... Nice hot rod!! The little tyke is thinking "that one is going to be mine one day!"
I thought it was a really good model photo too! (the ballast is too clean) Beautiful place, nicely framed.
From November 1980 at Newfoundland, NJ, Morris County Central 0-6-0 #4039 (ex-Virginia Blue Ridge 5, nee-US Army No. 4039, ALCO 11/1942) works a weekend tourist train on an isolated segment of NYS&W track. The MCC operated from 1974 to December 1980 when it shut down. Today, the 4039 is at the Whippany Railway Museum in NJ.
It's very stunning in person. To the right is a sheer cliff down about 500 feet to the Rio de la Los Pinos, just a bit smaller than the Animas River that runs with the Durango & Silverton. On the regular train ride, you get just a couple of seconds to view it, with this photo stop we got to walk around, peer into the abyss. It does look like someone's floor-to-ceiling plaster edifice...
T&NO Mikado in operation on the Austin Steam Train's Hill Country Flyer at Burnet, Texas. November, 1995.
