Vintage trains

[buelligan]

Petone Railway Workshops circa 1905. H class steam locomotive, 0-4-2T type, for use on the Fell system on the Rimutaka Incline.

Whew I would pass on taking a ride on this thing, with the amount of dents on the cab that appear to be coming from the inside out it must be like a war zone inside that thing. :eeek:

 

[Blackthorn]

Whew I would pass on taking a ride on this thing, with the amount of dents on the cab that appear to be coming from the inside out it must be like a war zone inside that thing. :eeek:

I hadn't noticed that...interesting.

 

[Fading Fast]

Good eye, FF. Well said!

Thank you - you posted some gorgeous pictures. The one with the men working on the engine give such a great perspective for the scale of these behemoths.

 

[Blackthorn]

Thank you - you posted some gorgeous pictures. The one with the men working on the engine give such a great perspective for the scale of these behemoths.

Thank you, FF.

 

[Stearmen]

[video=youtube;fDhUu1Mv8rY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDhUu1Mv8rY[/video]

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

Lovely photo above.

 

[Benny Holiday]

Petone Railway Workshops circa 1905. H class steam locomotive, 0-4-2T type, for use on the Fell system on the Rimutaka Incline.

That's great to see. My Dad was born in Petone in 1925.

 

[Blackthorn]

Interesting, Benny...FL has a way of making the world smaller.

 

[Warden]

I love vintage trains

Last year I was lucky enough to get to York (Great Britain) last year for the 'Great Gathering'

Here is me on the foot plate of the Dwight D Eisenhower

http://twitpic.com/d2rtjl

More info on the Great Gathering here

 

[Blackthorn]

I love vintage trains

Last year I was lucky enough to get to York (Great Britain) last year for the 'Great Gathering'

Here is me on the foot plate of the Dwight D Eisenhower

http://twitpic.com/d2rtjl

More info on the Great Gathering here

Cool article, and nice picture, Warden!

 

[Blackthorn]

1924, the "Largest and most powerful electric locomotive in the world being exhibited by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway and the General Electric Co" photo from Shorpy today:

 

[Quetzal]

1924, the "Largest and most powerful electric locomotive in the world being exhibited by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway and the General Electric Co" photo from Shorpy today:

Shame that Wisconsin tore down all of the electric lines that these babies used right before the gas crisis...

-Quetzal

 

[Dan Allen]

While on a fishing trip the wife and I stopped to take this picture of a wall mural. This picture really doesn't do the artist justice. It is almost in 3-d .

 

[DesertDan]

Beautiful, that's the kind of wall art I can appreciate!

 

[Fading Fast]

Dan Allen, that is insane - thank you for posting. And to your point, some of the three dimension comes through (and anything that I can make out on my addled monitor is impressive).

 

[Blackthorn]

Wow, that is an incredible mural!

 

[jamespowers]

Wow, that is an incredible mural!

You need to come down this way and actually ride the trains:

http://www.ncry.org/

My boys LOVE it when we ride the steam trains. Nothing like sticking your head out the window and seeing the steam rising into the air and back toward you. The diesels stink.

 

[Blackthorn]

You need to come down this way and actually ride the trains:

http://www.ncry.org/

My boys LOVE it when we ride the steam trains. Nothing like sticking your head out the window and seeing the steam rising into the air and back toward you. The diesels stink.

You're right, that looks like a lot of fun! I also want to ride the Roaring Camp train to Santa Cruz some day. Too bad I got interested in trains AFTER I moved away from San Jose!

 

[MikeKardec]

I got a chance to move all those engines at Railtown (Jamestown, CA) around for a film that I was working on. One of the most exciting nights of my life. I wish I'd had a camera but we were working so hard I probably wouldn't have had time to shoot any photos. It takes a long time to boil up a cold engine even with a 'draft' (air fitting) to get it burning hotter and more evenly faster. They take a fantastic amount of maintenance. That round house, engine shop, still has equipment that runs off of leather belts driven by a drive shaft from the ceiling!

 

[jamespowers]

You're right, that looks like a lot of fun! I also want to ride the Roaring Camp train to Santa Cruz some day. Too bad I got interested in trains AFTER I moved away from San Jose!

Roaring Camp is a good one too!
NCRR is a fun ride through the canyon.