If You Love Steam Locomotives...

[Ace-Garageguy]

This short documentary about the last days of steam on the railroads is one of the best things I've ever seen...

 

 

[Sixties Sam]

Great film, but kind of sad to see an era end. I'm glad that some steamers are still around in use on tourist railroads.

Sam

[Dave Van]

Working right now on my 1/48 scale railroad. It's 35 x 20.....and will be steam era!!! 

To top it off I live in a county with more active steam locomotives than any other in the USA. Between Cass, Durbin and Elkins you can ride all of them. 

My great grandfather was a engineer for the B&O RR....only job he ever had.....so I come by it honestly! 

[Ace-Garageguy]

7 hours ago, Dave Van said:

Working right now on my 1/48 scale railroad. It's 35 x 20.....and will be steam era!!! 

To top it off I live in a county with more active steam locomotives than any other in the USA. Between Cass, Durbin and Elkins you can ride all of them. 

My great grandfather was a engineer for the B&O RR....only job he ever had.....so I come by it honestly! 

   Pretty cool.

As a kid in both Cincinnati and Baltimore, I watched a lot of Baltimore and Ohio trains. Rode on a few too.   

[oldnslow]

That's a nice video . We were up in North Carolina last month and got to ride the Tweetsie RR narrow gauge train .

[espo]

13 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

This short documentary about the last days of steam on the railroads is one of the best things I've ever seen...

 

 

Thank you for the memories. I'm of an age that I remember as a child when the conversion to diesel engines began. As a child growing up in a "bedroom community" outside of Chicago I would ride with my mother to pickup my father in the evening at the train station when he would come home from work in down town Chicago. He rode the C&NW ( Chicago and North Western Rail Road) and they started using the diesel engine trains in the early '50's but the commuter trains were still steam at that time.  

[lysleder]

If I love steam locomotives..  Of course I do!  What's not to love? A lot of people do. They even play romantic ballads about them. This is one of my favorites;