For all of You Train Lovers

[mrhemi]

Been a few years. Maybe one of our Kiwi friends can chime in?

 

[Photon440]

Last wood burners.

ALCO 67544, built for the Robert Dollar Lumber company in 1927, was the last built (for the US market) steam locomotive that was fired by wood. Currently on display at the Pacific Locomotive Association. Pacific Locomotive Association Steam Locomotives It was later converted to burn oil.

This Lima 3320 was actually built a year later, and also burned wood, but was built for the Canadian market. Later converted to oil, and is now a coal burner.

 

[Richard Cranium]

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No politics. Just posting for context.

The O&A Railroad was chartered in 1848 and ran between Alexandria and Gordonsville, with another section running from Charlottesville to Lynchburg. It was a strategic player in the Civil War as it was the only railroad that connected the capitals of Washingon, D.C. and Richmond. It underwent significant damage during the war and subsequent repair in the late 1860s.

Nuttin’ political about telling a bit of history from that era.

 

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[Roadcuda]

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That second pic is in down town Bellows Falls, VT. In the late 70s I used to drive a tractor trailer down that steep driveway to a paper mill that's only about 100' to the right. There was a rail loading dock just behind where the pic was taken from. I don't think it's there anymore,

 

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[DeltaV]

UAC TurboTrain at Transpo '72 held at Dulles airport.

 

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