Like Vintage Steam Trains?

[cogitate]

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:

[mapleleafalumnus]

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!

[cogitate]

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?

[rallybug]

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

[Jimmy the Heater]

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

[Firestorm]

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...

[cagiva549]

Originally Posted by Jimmy the Heater

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

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

[mapleleafalumnus]

Originally Posted by motonomus

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.

Thanks! MoreMoreMorePlease!

[pirahna]

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.

[Hughlysses]

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

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!

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

[snoid]

and the e-9 '951' passenger set.

[cogitate]

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.

[Hughlysses]

Originally Posted by motonomus

I knew this thread would flush out the train buffs.

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

[snoid]

Originally Posted by Hughlysses

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.