For all of You Train Lovers

[khryslerkid]

 

[Photon440]

Nice video. I didn't drive the trains but one afternoon shift my wife arrived at work, I took my (then) 11 year old son out in my repair truck and drove him up to a main-line locomotive and let him climb up to sit in the engineer seat. He had a fun story to tell at school the next couple of days.

 

[polywideblock]

 

[JDmac72chrgr]

Stasburg railroad, parents & grandparents took us on it when we were little, took my kids when they were young and took my oldest grandchild on it. Havent taken my 3 other grandchildren yet, some day, maybe. 3 in KS, 1 in west TX.

 

[khryslerkid]

 

[Richard Cranium]

I hope the airbags worked.

 

[khryslerkid]

 

[fratzog lover]

Found this in Kansas by the side of the tracks in Dodge City at the FABO get together.

 

[Photon440]

That's one way to make wheels (forging) but the majority of wheels that we put on freight cars at CN were cast steel, with only the wheel tread and hub area machined for pressing onto the axle. The rest showed casting marks. Interesting video though! A lot of those looked like locomotive and passenger service wheels.

 

[snakeyes]

Big Boumi

about 1923 Eckington Yard

 

[YY1]

Looks like a fair of some type, since they have the Tom Thumb there next to the modern power they are showing off.

 

[DeltaV]

 

[DeltaV]

Looks like a fair of some type, since they have the Tom Thumb there next to the modern power they are showing off.

"Past and present in locomotives. Eckington Yards, June 4, 1923." A closeup of the locomotive seen here yesterday in the Baltimore & Ohio rail yard during the Masonic convention in Washington, D.C. The big engine wears the livery of "Boumi Temple," a Baltimore Shrine lodge. 5x7 glass negative.

Source:
https://www.shorpy.com/node/17486

 

[polywideblock]

some old aussie railways

In 1919, Mount Morgan railway employees arranged for a special picnic service.

PB15 No.358 was specially turned out in early 1902, to welcome the arrival of the then new Governor of Queensland

During construction work on the Chillagoe Company line, around 1907-8, two of the company locomotives G126 and G33, with the locomotive crew pose for their portraits. Five locomotives were purchased by the Chillagoe Mining and Railway Company of the 2-6-0 type, with three being supplied by the West Australian Government Railways

The South Australian Railways 500 class was the largest of the big power locomotives introduced by Commissioner Webb in the 1920s

train leaving Newcastle for Belmont NSW

Locomotive No. 7 at the No.1 Mortuary Receiving Station at Rookwood Cemetery c. 1869.

 

[66ChargerHI-PO]

I do I do, I love trains. Here we are at and on the Conway Scenic Railroad in North Conway NH, this used to be the old B&M line.....

 

[66ChargerHI-PO]

At and on the Cog Railway in Mount Washington NH.....

This below was the first train they used......

The new trains they use are Bio-diesels and are powered by John Deere engines

 

[YY1]

Big Boumi View attachment 1107974 about 1923 Eckington Yard

That's not an Erie "triplex" is it?

 

[snakeyes]

That's not an Erie "triplex" is it?

https://www.shorpy.com/node/17486 DeltaV posted this just below my post

 

[YY1]

Further research indicates it's a B&O EL-1 2-8-8-0.

 

[DeltaV]