Like Vintage Steam Trains?

I was out on the Hawk today, and got held up at a train crossing.

There were a ton of folks, and the train was taking a long time to come. So, I looked down the tracks, and lo and behold,


A Steam Train!







It was very cool, I found a little video of it when I got home:


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Cool Berkshire loco (2-8-4 wheel arrangement) lettered in its original Atcheson, Topeka & Santa Fe markings! Where wexactly were you along its excursion? I'm an old railfan, and last year I saw the Pere Marquette #1225 (the basis of the Polar Express loco of the film ot the same name) in its home in at the Steam Railroad Institute in Owosso, MI during Railroad Days. Please give as many details as you can!

This was along Highway 101 in Encinitas, California. The train came down from LA yesterday to San Diego, then returned today. I will try to dig up more info, my BIL was on the train going south, he knows more. I just happened upon it going north, quite a treat.

I'd like to see one of these berkshire's and there's a page at www.railserve.com that says thre's one at Lynchburg VA, just off the BRP.
Is this correct?

These locomotives are beautifully proprtioned and have a "power" look like the New Zealand Ka and Kb s

Among the survivors 3751 is not listed or is this just a listing of the display locos?

I saw this one last year



Not my picture, but this is a Peppercorn A1 class locomotive called the 'Tornado'. The last of them were scrapped in 1966, but a dedicated team decided, in 1990, to build a new one - 18 years later it steamed up for the first time. Built with the latest railway electronic safety systems, it runs occasionally on the main railway lines carrying passengers

I don't know anything about them but would dearly love to see one run sometime.

Looks like a giant toy. I've ridden only on one train and it was a steam engine, pretty cool. Wish they'd still run these for passenger trains regularly...

Several of the 4000 class are on static display but none will ever have a fire built in them unless somebody has several million bucks laying around , They would have to be rebuilt from the ground up . The UP Challenger does make steam excrusion runs around the country , Its a little smaller but still over a million pounds , It has 12 drivers instead of 16 . SEYA

Thanks! MoreMoreMorePlease!

I worked on a local touristy antique steam train attraction that does a trip through the redwoods sereral times a day when I was in high school. I still get motion sickness when I see one.

Dude- I'm afraid you're gonna have to take a railfan requal test. That's a 4-8-4 Northern.

and the e-9 '951' passenger set.

I knew this thread would flush out the train buffs.

My BIL is a train nerd par excellence, and he tells me on a scale of 1 to 10 of train nerds, he is a 3. :eek1

Guilty as charged, although if it doesn't make steam, I don't much care about it.

Some of you might enjoy my webpage: http://www.trainweb.org/tusp

yeah well... you drive a buell. so that pretty much explains why you can't appreciate streamlined transitional era diesels.

Quite right! My penance is six good head knocks and a good swift kick in the ass. I will go my way and sin no more. I was can't see the wheels in the photo, so I counted the mounting pins for the drivers. Unfortunately, my brain's Heisenberg compensator is on the fritz again.
Thanks for the correction. I'll go play with my 2343 SF F3 now...

Ever been on the DRG RR? If not here are some photos:

www.khjphotography.com

If ever in Durango, you must ride the train!

I'll go play with my 2343 SF F3 now...



I have one of those sitting on the track right now . SEYA

Just looks funny with the Genesis helper...

There was a Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood Missouri when I was a kid. We'd drive by it on the way to the pool.

We went to it a couple times when I was in the Cub Scouts. Moved away to Ohio in 1972. They had some big steam iron, if I recall correctly.