It's a gas-electric sandwich with EBT 17 displayed at left, and newly rebuilt EBT 15 sliding past the EBT's home built gas-electric M1.
With the rain coming down, EBT 2-8-2s 15 and 14 work up McMullen's Summit on the return trip to Orbisonia during the 2005 Fall Spectacular.
#15 and #14 simmer in the roundhouse after the first day of the Fall Spectacular with 16-tonner M6 sandwiched between them.
Fall Spectacular lighter image
#15 blasts through the Rockhill Yards with the passenger train about an hour before the next departure.
After returning to Orbisonia with one of the night trains, EBT 15 poses for a few photos before uncoupling from the train and heading to the roundhouse.
A worker sprays water to cool the ashes in 15's firebox while she sits outside the roundhouse. The blue glow under the engine is the ashes as they are being dumped into the pit.
#15 charges hard up the summit which is clearly apparent.
The coal pile in #15's tender appears to be on fire on this photo but in reality its is #14's unusually bright headlight reflected and magnified by the smoke, fog and rain.
Fall Spectacular
How many places can you see a steam-powered, double-headed, narrow gauge coal train today? EBT #15 & #14 prepare to depart the original shop complex for a trip down the line.
