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THE GREAT TRAIN THREAD!!..
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Anyone else keep up with the T1 trust project? I think this is an absolutely amazing undertaking. Originally I’ll admit that I pretty much rolled my eyes at it. Then they started building, and more importantly, hiring guys to figure out how to build it with the resources available. Pretty amazing stuff. https://prrt1steamlocomotivetrust.org/
Doug_262
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Yes wish it was fully linked.I guess the lack of driveshafts is the anti-theft measure?
But I was happy to just find it there.
Shays were my Dad’s favorite.
Grand Canyon Train Depot.
You guys (especially in the PNW) have likely heard of Fred Kemper's collection in Merrill, OR. It recently sold to the Oregon Coast Scenic
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Major private collection of steam locomotives is sold to Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad (updated) - Trains
MERRILL, Ore. — What is perhaps the single largest private collection of steam locomotives, mostly from the western U.S., has been sold and will soon be dispersed following the death of its long-time owner. The Fred M. Kepner collection of 14 steam locomotives and other railroad equipment has...
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I wonder how they will replicate that huge cast steel frame.
That’s part of what they are pay the engineers for. They know it is not practical to cast it as one piece like the original, so they will be doing it in sections. Pretty sure they laid some of it out in a video a while back.
That should be interesting.
The Brits built the Tornado a new old steam engine a few years ago. I believe they welded up a frame out of plasma cut sections.
The A1Trust Tornado project is what prompted the T1 Trust. To bring back a locomotive that no examples had survived of. They will also be going for the steam locomotive land speed record. Should be interesting. It would however be sad for Mallard to lose that crown, having won it in 1938 and keeping it all these years. Then again, down the British!
For those unaware of the scale of this project. It would see the return of a legitimate steam giant to the rails. I expect it will have very limited trackage as its size is complicated further by the fact that it is non-articulated. Meaning that even the Big Boy can take a sharper curve.
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gunner30
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Took this shot as a teenager, on a train watching trip to New Haven CT ba
ck in 1978
ck in 1978
Nice... A GG1 in the wild.
The last eastbound MLW revenue train crossing the Columbia river at Beverly Wa. In March 1980.
This was Riverland Wa. on the west side of the Hanford Nuclear reservation. This is where the MLW and the Atomic energy commission RR exchanged cars. It's all gone today except the grading. I think these pics are from the early 50s.
And a pic of MLW 851 in 1947 at the Midway substation. The building housed a huge crane for unloading railcars. I was in there with a buddy that worked there in the mid 80s. The tracks were gone by then, this site is about 3 miles west of Riverland.
Found some late 50s pics from the Batum wa. siding on The Marcellus line, the MLW was handling materials for the Titan missile base just south of there. I'm liking the old GMC trucks.
gunner30
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gunner30
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I found this sitting on a side track in Walpole NH back in 1977, I believe it was headed for a local tourist railroad.
gunner30
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Me ,first time at Strasbourg, Spent 2020
Strasbourg and the museum across the street are a great place to visit.
1970, two MLW GP 40s and an FP 45 roll west from Ralston Wa.
I hope one day I will get to see a steam locomotive in real life, maybe even ride in one.